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Friday, May 31, 2002
If only more movies worked like this.
UPDATE: I stand properly corrected by Scott:
If only more Hollywood movies worked like this.
Googling for good ship names, I came across a report detailing the sinking of the USS Pirate during the Korean War. Amazing reading from the Naval Historical Center.
Thursday, May 30, 2002
On his page I see Bezzy's new cartoon, then I drop by TMOL and see...Bezzy's new cartoon!
Worlds collide! Thousands perish!
"If they're mocking your spelling, it is because that is the only facet of your post that is worth discussing. the rest is simply ignored. it is not because they do not have a point to make, or cannot debate with your mad skillz. it is because the spelling is the only thing in that particular post worthwhile enough to even comment on."
--Poster on PlanetCrap
So I'm listening to Wired's interview vis a vis Doom III with Carmack and Reznor, and the interviewer is "yeah, yeah"-ing to Carmack and Reznor's complaints that there are too many frustrated directors in the game industry. Meanwhile, but one link away, I'm looking at this story by the same writer. Idiot.
(While you're at it, enjoy the Tarzan-speak title of this article.)
Wow. Link via MeFi, it's a story about the company that makes the American military's explosive arsenal. Amazing place, amazing people, amazing work.
Someday I'd like to get a tour of the old Badger Ammunition plant. If nothing else, I bet we could get some great texture reference--that is, if they'd even let us take a camera inside the gate...
Following up on the stories of nanotech military exoskeletons a few months back, here (from Wired via MeFi via FARK) comes another story of Future War.
"We modeled the controller after the PlayStation2, because that's what these 18-, 19-year-old Marines have been playing with pretty much all of their lives."
Wednesday, May 29, 2002
Sure, they said it was silly to put a hard drive in my machine just for MP3s, but look who's laughing now:
Well, it's probably still them, isn't it?
Finally got around to ordering a Kaiju Big Batel T-Shirt today. Now if only I could get to a match one of these days...
Brilliant work from JP, combining our favorite Jedi and the Obey campaign:
I am making stickers as you read this, preparing to spread the meme far and wide.
UPDATE: Done. Download this file, print on a 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of label paper, cut up, and sticker to your heart's content.
The oddities that arise from having a large MP3 collection: I have the whole mess on Random Shuffle while I'm working, and Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto #2 comes up. I'm working and listening, listening and working, when I suddenly realize that it sounds like another song. I rewind a bit, listen, think, and then realize: if Eric Carmen didn't steal the main thrust of "All By Myself" from the Piano Concerto #2...well, he must have.
It's a good thing there's a large indexed datasource out there I can use to verify such mad thoughts.
Tuesday, May 28, 2002
Back from a weekend of wanderlust (more than 800 miles of driving in four days) and dock-installation, as well as a couple new geocache finds.
But I'm a little busy, so no blogging today. Go read some of the pages off my links page.
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