On the way back from the coast, we stopped for breakfast at Camp 18 in the town of Seaside (18 miles inland). As the hostess led us to our table, I overheard this little snippet of conversation: “So, does he have a special leather suit he wears to do that?”
Later this afternoon, I [...]
In their high-tech astrochemistry laboratory at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, scientists from Ames and the nearby SETI Institute are reporting today they have bombarded an icy mixture of simple chemicals with ultraviolet light and created some of the complex compounds called amino acids that are the building blocks of proteins in all [...]
There’s Lynda Barry. Lynda Barry’s comics fall into a special category of “stuff you don’t get until you’ve read fifty or so.” Start today.
In his journal, Neil Gaiman mentioned that Lisa Snellings Clark just had a baby, whom they named Orion… which doesn’t particularly mean much to me, other than that I have an odd affinity for the constellation of Orion.
(What do I mean, “an odd affinity?” It’s like this — Orion is the only constellation I [...]
Not to beat a dead horse, but here’s more on the CBDTPA:
America’s programmers, engineers and sundry bit-heads have not yet figured out how much a new copyright bill will affect their livelihood.
When they do, watch for an angry Million Geek March to storm Capitol Hill.
- Declan McCullagh, Anti-Copy Bill Slams Coders (Wired News)
Still no idea whether I’ll still be working for the same place in two months’ time. Fun!
The Gettysburg Address as a PowerPoint presentation: sad but true. (My sweetie said I should point out that this was actually funny, so people would click on it and enjoy it, but then said “never mind,” remembering that I only have about six readers. Thanks, sweetie!)
This is important. Read the whole thing here.
Just in case folks haven’t figured out how sweeping the Hollings-Feinstein bill, aka CBDTPA is, well, keep reading.
The CBDTPA says that if I were to write and sell this BASIC program…
10 INPUT A$
20 PRINT A$
…after the regulations take effect, I would be guilty of a federal felony. [...]
Harley Sorenson writes on SFGate:
It’s been almost a year and a half, but I’m still steamed at those pusillanimous Democrats and their loser candidate, Al Gore.
Lacking the courage to vote their convictions, they cost my man, Ralph Nader, the election. Every vote for Gore was, in effect, a vote for George W. Bush.
This is a [...]
Right. So a month ago, I went to a product launch for Microsoft’s new development platform, Visual Studio .NET. While there, I got some goodies in a goodie bag, including a 60-day trial of the product, and I also won an XBOX video gaming system in the raffle. So far, so good.
This [...]
Continuing the Jesus theme (see prior post), here’s a series of pencil drawings which depict Jesus-as-hippie accompanying ordinary people just like you (disclaimer: if you happen to be desperately Caucasian. Your mileage may vary. Do not fold, bend, spindle or mutilate.) as they go about their lives and jobs. The prize on this site [...]
On April 1, 2002 I will be 10,000 days old.
Jesus Saves! He passes to Moses! He shoots! He scores! I especially like how Jesus and his lil’ buddies are portrayed as being so desperately Caucasian. (link via dooce)
Currently listening to the music of Rachel Smith, found via a link from a Shift article entitled “Why It Sucks To Be Cool,” which was in turn found via a link from EvHead.
It’s very interesting stuff — chewy, even. In the space of four sample tracks from her CD, I’ve heard bits that reminded [...]
Salon posted three pages worth of letters in response to an article about the SSSCA (a particularly horrid piece of media-industry-sponsored legislation currently slithering its way through Congress). Both the article and the responses are well worth the read.
What a concept: Air Free Tires. Reminds me of a bike my brother had when we were kids that had solid rubber tires. They mostly wound up laid out in skid patches on our sidewalk — gotta love those friction brakes (you know, the ones where you backpedal to stop).
Anyhow, these somehow [...]
After we woke up, we had this little snippet of a conversation…
me: I don’t quite remember the details now, but I had a dream last night that I was working someplace strange where I didn’t know anybody, I didn’t know what they did, I didn’t know why I was there, and I didn’t know what [...]
As if you didn’t already have to worry about bacteria, chlorine, heavy metals and (if you’re especially paranoid) fluoride in the water, how about this: there’s medication in there, too. Read about it in the NY Times (registration required) or Salon.
How did your lame, wimpy Senator vote on renewable energy? Oregon didn’t do so hot — one for, one against.
I’m sitting at home on a Friday night, I’ve just had a lovely Thai dinner, and I’m working on integrating all the pieces from a team project in my C programming class. Naturally, I’m listening to HACK by Information Society. About ten years too late, perhaps… ;>
Random observation: The new Jeep Cherokee [...]