Archive for April, 2004
Meat
“They’re made out of meat.” Remember: if we ever meet extraterrestrials, they may turn out to be weirder than anything we carbon-based meat units could ever imagine. I have no idea what kind of aliens are talking here, but I like to think that they’re Blue Hooloovoos. Speaking of which, John Malkovich will have a [...]
Zire Straits
I’ve had a Palm Zire 71 for over a year now, and it’s been a decent multiple-use handheld. In addition to the standard Palm OS features, it also includes a digital camera and music capability, both of which function acceptably. The camera, though not drop-dead exquisite, produces good enough photos for 0.3MP; while music playback, [...]
CVS Brats
About 9am this morning: four boys, early teeners, Hispanic-looking, wait outside CVS Dupont Circle, sitting on the rails near the entrance. When you exit the store, one of them will come up to you with a $5 bill and ask you, “Excuse me, sir, can you go back and buy me a patch, I can’t [...]
Quick Flash Dump
This is all old stuff, but if you have Flash and a broadband connection and haven’t seen these yet, enjoy: Windows Noises. Exorcist in 30 Seconds with Bunnies. The SpongMonkeys before Quiznos made them famous. NosePilot. (The second sequence, with music by the Asylum Street Spankers, is especially well executed.)
Sniffing out Page 23
Tracking the Page 23 Meme to its source, starting from where I first saw it: OKCalvin < Tulipgirl < Thinklings < Jared < Elfin Ethicist < Limey Brit < Woodlief < Collected Miscellany < Caterina < David Chess < Long Story Short Pier < Elkins < Happy Potterer < Sternel (fails to credit, but leaves [...]
Run and Soak
Summer-y weekends are here, and I spent Sunday after church mostly outdoors: skating to Da Hua for siomai and rice crackers, and going for a run down the National Mall. I have neither gone running nor been in hot weather since last summer, so my embarassingly less-than-optimal condition manifested itself in an ever-slowing pace — [...]
Slam, Boom!
People were quite livid that a “SLAM” and a “stink” stunk of anti-Muslim bigotry, but where was the outrage over suicide bombers on Star Trek? Or could it have been simply because B.C.’s Gary Hart is Christian, and is therefore, like Mel Gibson, an easy target for such unqualified derision? (Yes, yes, an old issue, [...]
Yank the Wonk, Jump in the Swamp
If you’re tired of all the buzz, hype, and ado over the Denton Empire’s Gawker-like DC blog (and even if you’re not), then check out Swamp City, who’s been running the DC news-and-gossip bloggage circuit for a season longer. (Actually, Wonkette cites Swamp City as a source and helper, so they’re probably not clawing at [...]
Two To-Do-List Checkmarks
Consummatum est: the websites of Electromedia and Imagineers are back up, two of the first professional* commercial websites I ever worked on. Once, they were entombed in Flash menus, frames, nested tables, and buggy HTML — wrought by my own hand! Today they are resurrected: PHP-driven, faster, tighter, gloriously robed in XHTML and CSS. (To [...]
Khaaan
“I shall leave you as you left me, marooned for all eternity, in the center of a dead planet, buried alive, buried alive…” “KHAAAN!!!” A definitive Shatner moment forever immortalized. (Link via MeFi.) Update: