Archive for November, 2004
This Old Doom
Memories of Doom 1. While all you young whippersnappers have been crowbarring headcrabs in Half Life 2, I downloaded Doom Legacy to my G3 iBook to indulge in some nostalgic pixelated demon-fragging — with the added advantages of higher screen resolution, mouselook, and Quake-like jumping. Has it really been so long since we upgraded to [...]
Action-Packed Afternoon at 1600 Penn
Yesterday’s action-packed afternoon at 1600 Penn Ave NW was a much-needed kick in the pants to get the White House Fence Jumper weblog back up and running. Mohamed Alanssi and Yasuharu Kuga bear the dubious distinction of being first to rouse the ire of Secret Service following a long drought in White House Fence nuttery, [...]
Taft Bridge Lion
One of the majestic lions guarding the William Howard Taft Bridge on Connecticut Ave NW, Woodley Park side. The lion sculptures were made by Roland Hinton Perry. Wikipedia entry for Taft Bridge.
Monument in Fog
The Washington Monument rises into the mists of a foggy morning. Photo taken with a Canon Powershot A400.
Staring Dragon
This cute little dragon (found via anildash) appears to move its head and eyes to follow you from almost any direction you look at it. I tried printing out the graphic, cutting out the dragon, and folding and taping it as instructed: The effect’s a lot more convincing in the video, I must say. Maybe [...]
Live The Life Mag
Ganns, a good friend from college days, has taken quite a leap of faith as of late, devoting himself full-time to the ministry of publishing a culture and lifestyle magazine for the Filipino Christian community. That community will get to taste the fruit of all his work on November 27th, when they officially launch LIVEtheLIFE [...]
Trains Look Like This
For the person who came to my site googling for “What do trains look like nowadays,” I refer you to the the photo galleries at cleanairbus.com “train” tag on Flickr. Update: Sadly, cleanairbus.com is gone, and with it the photos of trains. Flickr’s “train” tag will have to do for now.
Too Much E
Oh dear: High Vitamin E intake is associated with an increased death risk. Remember those old Squibb Natural Vitamin E commercials with a rock-climbing Richard Gomez, saying how it increased his sex drive? I wonder what kind of commercials Squibb is showing these days? More on that (Vitamin E, not Richard Gomez), plus links, from [...]
Arafat’s Death
Goodbye to Yasser Arafat, and to his keffiyeh, too. (Jacoby sure is fair and balanced.) More from Salim, Metafilter, the Moonie Times, and DEB “grain of salt” KA.
Cross and Arrows
John Piper on DesiringGod.org’s new logo. Excellent use of minimal imagery: four red arrows pointing to the heart of the very cross they form. (Also note that CSS is used for layout, making the site easily readable in text-mode browsers, and laying down site content in an ordered hierarchy. An assortment of HTML problems currently [...]