Archive for November, 2003

DC Metro Blog Map

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Reen has granted me the privilege of representation via urban mass transit cartography. Can you find me on the DC Metro?

Smokefree

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SmokefreeDC sticker graces the front of China Cafe on Connecticut Ave, home of DC’s best Hunan Tofu. Photo taken with a Palm Zire 71.

BOBing for Windows

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GUI Gallery. Brings me right back to the days when my PC-XT (with 1MB of RAM!) used GeoWorks, and Dad’s 386 “notebook” laptop ran on Win3.0. Good times, good times. (Via presurfer. And don’t forget BOB!)

Enterprise Episode Review Roundup

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Twilight: When it comes to Star Trek, I’m normally very much against the use of memory-killing interdimensional neural parasites and time-travel-like events used as plot elements to cancel out a whole episode. (Ron Pacheco cites Poe in denouncing “dream within a dream” storylines, though I understood the final scene as being a “reset” of the [...]

Autumn Leaves

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The tree outside the office blazes red in the middle of the Fall. A week after I took this, it was almost bare. Photo taken with a Palm Zire 71.

Scramboiled

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Have you ever tried vigorously shaking an egg before hard-boiling it to see if it comes out hard-scramble-boiled? It doesn’t work.

When Coworkers IM

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[17:26] sf1: is it sunny? [17:28] pau: The sun has set. [17:28] sf1: on your days of youth and care-free living [17:29] pau: I’m blogging that. (Names altered to protect innocent virgin buddy lists.)

When the Soviets Attack

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Town of Lawrence, after a nuclear war. As it did with Reagan, The Day After left a significant impression on me. I was eight years old, and knew nothing about the Soviet Union, nuclear weapons, or John Lithgow. (Although I recognized him later as the bad guy in Santa Claus: The Movie.) Watching it with [...]