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Friday, May 10, 2002
This site has MP3s of old radio shows for sale, from Bob and Ray to The Strange Doctor Weird. Right now I'm just grabbing a ton of their free samples (check out the links at the bottom of each show's page; right now I'm listening to one of Bob and Ray's Boston improv shows--great stuff!), but I suspect I'll be ordering some discs soon...
Thursday, May 09, 2002
Hilarity revealed, as CalTrans decides to leave a piece of guerilla art in place. If only more art could be as helpful...
Are Metafilter posters psychic? Early on in MeFi discussion of the mailbox pipebombings, a MeFier pointed out that the bomb locations looked like the beginnings of a smiley face.
Today, a macabre sort of vindication, as CNN reports that guess was absolutely correct.
Oh no! Blood on the Segway! (You will note in the accompanying photo, however, that the Segway is still standing. Technology cares not for human frailty.)
Spider-Man's Greatest Bible Stories.
And once I saw that, how could I avoid making it into a T-shirt?
Wednesday, May 08, 2002
Update your address books--I now have an Inkslinger.org email address that I will keep pointed at me, no matter where I happen to be. This will be important in case I a) close down my old Chorus home address (which I'm considering doing) and/or am suddenly no longer available at my work address (not really a possibility right now, but hey--why not prepare?)
Hurray! Karla has made me a T-Shirt! GQ-ready photos forthcoming once I get my webcam back up and working.
By the way--if anyone knows where I can find larger versions of the Daily Bugle covers shown in this Microcontent News post, let me know.
"There's a growing realization that more realistic training simulations lead to higher levels of skill attainment for trainees, but current training games are more concerned with eye-catching graphics than with modeling real human behavior," said Silverman, professor of systems engineering and computer and information science at Penn. "Our goal is to build in factors like fatigue, stress, personal values, emotion and cultural influences."
Someone who works for Lionhead? No, it's someone working for the military. It makes me wonder if some of the time spent at cloistered industry events like GDC might be better spent at seminars that might encourage cross-discipline growth--like the Computer-Generated Forces and Behavioral Representation Conference, for example.
While this article on freelance web interface design is useful in and of itself, it also contains a more important lesson: don't let people wear cleats on your turf. If you have a greater degree of expertise in an area than someone else, politely but firmly defend it, or plan on paying the consequences down the line.
"It's impossible to force someone to sing."
"Life's too short to hold onto dignity."
It's not too often that you see a single weblog entry hold three universal truths. (I leave finding the third as an exercise to the reader.)
All the various pages by the creator of Dollarshort (which is going on my peruse occasionally list, by the way) are great--especially A Day Late--convinces me that I need to spend some time on the style of this site. Enough of the standard Blogger template. Get ready for changes. As soon as I finish the blasted manuscript.
Real Soon Now.
Microcontent News has pointed out that Google is either defusing Google bombs in general, or the Verisign Google bomb in particular.
Tuesday, May 07, 2002
Okay--the Pic-a-Book* staff was brighter than some of these folks. (Granted, a few of us did have English degrees.) Just another reason I miss the place...
* Holy cow! The website is still up! Thanks, Google!
Just got this email:
Hi:
Hopefully this reaches you. I have been wanting to find you again--I
finally did the steps and recovered from the hopeless condition I was in
when we were first emailing.
Now I am moving home to Oakland in July cuz mom is elderly and wants me
to.
How are things with you? You got married, right?
*** from 7-11
Uh...no, not married. In fact, I'm not certain who this person is. Very strange. All I can figure is that she's looking for my arch-nemesis, the other guy with my precise name in Madison (and there is one.) I'll have to email her and let her know.
Current top stories on Yahoo:
I just want some good world news for a change. Is that so wrong?
It's possible, given that he went to Stout (where she did) and lived in Rochester (where she now lives) that my sister knows the jerk planting pipebombs in mailboxes. I will call her and ask, then let you know if I'm a winner at Six Degrees of Murderer.
UPDATE: She doesn't know him, but her boyfriend might. More later.
UPDATE: Picture of the guy.
Though Lileks is hardly a surprising vector, it's nice to see "comedy gold" move into the mainstream (Look for it in "A New Sue Ann") via a major newspaper.
As a birthday gift to myself I finally went out and picked up a GPS unit. Tonight, the Geocaching begins!
Closer and closer, we're almost to the point where liquid crystal displays will become as versatile and cheap as I want them to be... (Thanks to Kris for the link.)
Monday, May 06, 2002
I hesitate to give it more publicity by linking it, but those behind this idiotic petition somehow think that a title J.R.R. Tolkien gave to a novel thirty years ago clearly was meant to slander the victims of September 11. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
UPDATE: It's definitely worth checking out the"signatures" on the petition to read some of the comments. Fun, fun, fun.
Interesting. This article on Time.com says that the next two Matrix movies will be released four months apart in 2003...
Sunday, May 05, 2002
With its enormous opening weekend as a probable cause, Spider-Man stock on the Hollywood Stock Exchange has shot up by 50% in a single day. Huzzah for my early purchase! Time to sell-sell-SELL!
UPDATE: Bought at 91, sold at 316 1/2. Profit: more than $220,000. If only I could be so lucky with real money...
A post on Metafilter led to this news story on a programming reverse engineering challenge, which led to the challenge's official site, which provided a link to this tutorial on reverse-engineering malicious software. Interesting reading, but the deeper I go, the less I understand; I wish I had the needed time to really get into programming...
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