Archive for March, 2004
Cumulative Effects
This comes rather late, considering that The Butterfly Effect was “hooted off the screen” weeks ago, but for those of you who are still unaware of the reference, the original “cumulative-effects” concept of time travel was first popularized in Ray Bradbury’s 1952 short story A Sound of Thunder. I hear that a Sound of Thunder [...]
Thumbing
By the way, the travel log still lacks pictures, but that will change soon. Update: Travel log entries with photos now have inline pictures. I’ve spent the past two nights learning how to dynamically resize images in PHP, and image functions are harder than they look at first glance. You would think that it would [...]
Migratory Shame
Fitting, I guess, that I finally re-uploaded the travel logs (still incomplete) last Saturday, March 13th: second year anniversary of The Jump. That means I’ve lived in the USA as an American for two years. I get twinges of guilt about it sometimes, reading news from back home. The PDI is quite contentious in labeling [...]
House Call
The phone rings. Being the only one in the office this morning, I pick it up and look at the handset to read the Caller ID: “U.S. Capitol.” “Hello, this is Paulo.” “Hello? Oops, sorry, I have the wrong number.” “Oh, okay.” Click. Have I mentioned how much I love living in DC?
No Hay Palabras
Amigos en Madrid y España, estamos parados con usted en estos dias de sangre y rasgones. (This is a bit belated, of course, considering that by now elections are done and the Spanish Socialists have won. Glenn Reynolds has more linkage.
Catching Up on Space News
This journal has been somewhat behind on the latest space news, so in a nutshell, it pleases me to inform you that: Both Mars rovers have found evidence that Mars was once a watery planet and that water may still exist there, encrusted in the smelly, putrid soil as damp, salty brine. Spirit has reached [...]
Everyone that Thirsteth
“My thirst was quench’d, my soul reviv’d, And now I live in Him.” The choir at First Baptist sang a gradual by Will McFarlane today, a delightful setting of Isaiah 55 combined with the above-linked hymn, The Voice From Galilee. Say what you will about the KJV translation, but nothing beats reading aloud — or [...]
How Now?
If you are reading this, then the transplant was a success. I apologize for my long internet absence. It was not my intention to leave you comfortless for such an extended interval, but I was loath to release an incomplete site, and could not bear to emerge from the dust of rebuilding until everything was… [...]
Lions, Saints, Rainbows, Oh My
Stitched panoramic view of E Street side of the White House from the Zero Mile Marker, tourists and all. Amy to right. One of Canova’s lion sculptures, guarding the Corcoran Museum. From the Corcoran collection, stained glass windows showing scenes from the lives of Saints Crispin and Crispian, patron saints of shoemakers and cobblers. Shortly [...]
Revenge
Seen on a messenger bag: “Revenge” of the Jedi? And why’s Yoda there when he was barely in the movie? Confusing, this is. Photo taken with a Palm Zire 71.