Archive for January, 2004

Buzzbuzzbuzz

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

Yes, this is another post about not posting. Life has again become busy to the point that I feel guilty when I sit down. Time management has never exactly been my forte, but I know I’ve reached a new plateau when I’m doing billable work in class. I feel only somewhat fortunate [...]

Begging The Question

Thursday, January 29th, 2004

Intelligent screwdriver … but at ~$650, it’s squarely aimed at people who are less intelligent than it.
(link via Gizmodo)

Why Must I Be Surrounded By Frickin’ Idiots?

Monday, January 26th, 2004

So there’s a mailing list for my computer science class, and… no, wait, I should back up. I’m in college, see, and I’m a CS major, and I’m taking a course called Computer Science I. And even though it’s sort of an introductory class, I just sort of assumed that all of my [...]

Blog Roundup

Monday, January 26th, 2004

A quick and random roundup of some stuff I ran across in a few minutes of blogging:

Columbus, Ohio has been offering subsidized housing to the chronically homeless, which (a) seems to work pretty well and (b) only costs a little bit more per person than it costs to operate shelters. Bravo. (link via [...]

Would You Like Health Care With That?

Saturday, January 24th, 2004

Wow. So this documentary filmmaker named Morgan Spurlock decided to eat at McDonald’s three times a day for 30 days and make a movie about what happened. Well, in addition to packing on 25 pounds (in a month!),
Within a few days of beginning his drive-through diet, Spurlock, 33, was vomiting out the window [...]

Geekboy

Friday, January 23rd, 2004

Interactive ZIP code map. Written in Java, takes a little while to load, but kinda fun. Type in your zip code and watch it narrow down to your specific city.

Like ‘Kick The Baby,’ Only Different

Thursday, January 22nd, 2004

Well, I almost matched Brian’s high of 319.7 with my 316.3, but even without that, this is still pretty dang fun.

Oh, The Geekiness

Wednesday, January 21st, 2004

So I received my copy of Virtual PC for Mac today. Basically, it’s an emulator that lets you run almost any PC operating system from inside the Mac OS. In addition to being able to use it for testing my installer, giving demos of the software I’ve written, and generally being able to [...]

May The Pants Be With You

Tuesday, January 20th, 2004

So every once in a while, there’s an amusing thing in the only section of the paper I read every day (the one with the funnies, that is). One of the occasional features is a word-substitution thing, as exemplified in the subject line above.
Today, rather than spoofing Star Wars, they’ve spoofed the Lord of [...]

Le Bad Cinema

Tuesday, January 20th, 2004

Last night I (and a small band of intrepid explorers) watched Future War (1997), the second-worst movie I have ever seen. How bad was it? I’ve honestly seen better delivery from fully-clothed pr0n actors (and in true pr0n fashion, we watched at least half of it in fast-forward before ejecting the movie after [...]

Duct Tape

Monday, January 19th, 2004

Here’s a little treat from our recent road trip down to California: Duct Tape Madrigal in C Major, by Lou Nathanson, which we first encountered on Car Talk Car Tunes Vol. 1. You can hear samples from Lou’s other songs here.

Hello, Little Girl

Sunday, January 18th, 2004

In a particularly interesting post which is also highly characteristic of precisely what I love about his writing, Neil Gaiman sez:
The wolf defines Red Riding Hood. He makes the story happen. Without him, she’d just be another girl on her way to her grandmother’s house. And she’d leave her goodies behind, and come home, and [...]

Straight To Hell

Saturday, January 17th, 2004

For whatever reason, I went searching for Babylon 5 drinking games. The games themselves are just kinda silly, but I found some highly entertaining spoofs on bits of dialogue from the show. For example:
The Babylon 5 Drinking Game was our last best hope for getting drunk, it failed. But in the year Season [...]

Umlaut THIS!

Friday, January 16th, 2004

More Wikipedia goodness: check out, and be highly amused by, the entry for heavy metal umlaut. Be sure to scroll to the bottom for the list of recent umlaut sightings.

ph34r m3!!!1

Friday, January 16th, 2004

This Wikipedia entry on l33t-sp34|{ is actually quite detailed, informative, helpful, and funny as hell. I ran across it when trying to explain what leet-speak was to my sweetie, when she ran across this post from a friend of ours. w00t!

Friday Five

Friday, January 16th, 2004

Being of the bored variety at the moment, and seeing as how it’s actually somewhat amusing this week, I present my first-ever Friday Five:
1. What does it say in the signature line of your emails?
Just my name and email address. Prior versions have included “The pen is only mightier than the sword at distances [...]

So Close

Wednesday, January 14th, 2004

Thinkgeek now offers a programmable LED name badge. Which is not only odd, but very similar to something I’ve wanted for years: a programmable scrolling LED display in the back of my car (I believe I can thank George Carlin for this one). There are a few things I frequently want to [...]

Mmm, Pavanne

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004

Probably the last thing for the evening: I seriously <heart> the pavanne from the Orlando soundtrack, a sample of which can apparently be found on this page. There’s just something about layered strings that sets my heart a-twitter (one of my other favorite pieces, ever, is Pachelbel’s stunningly overused Canon).

Evil Badness

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004

Two random items.
First, Neil Gaiman provided a link to what I can only think is the actual official product website for a (UK) food called Pot Noodle. It’s strange. Very strange: on the “Sweet and Sour” page, it actually says “It is a WISE SOUL who FILLS his BELLY with “POT NOODLE” [...]

School Day 5, Er, 2

Tuesday, January 13th, 2004

Had my first day of significant classes today. (Monday and Wednesday I have one class, Tuesday and Thursday I have three.) A few observations:

Distance learning is cool, but apparently there are no trash cans in the [classroom of the] future.
Stats should be fun, although it’s odd trying to get it through my head [...]