Archive for June, 2006
Buds and Blossoms
Is it flowering season? All of a sudden, every single one of my houseplants has put out buds or blossoms. Here’s the african violet, basil, and coleus respectively. (Okay, I’m cheating a bit with the coleus; that’s actually a photo from its ancestor in 2004. I forgot to get a photo of the current flowers [...]
New Catnip Spot
The photostream has consisted mostly of Pandora photos lately. I’m not sure why. She really likes that single spot on the bed now; if you look at the webcam, she’s always there, all times of day. Possibly something to do with my leaving her catnip ball in that spot for several days.
links for 2006-06-24
Sitepoint: The Successful Home Freelancer’s Guide (tags: business) Steve Pavlina: 10 Stupid Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed (tags: business) Vitamin: Ready to Start your Own Business? (tags: business) 9 Ways to Misunderstand Web Standards (tags: design standards markup) YouTube – Meteorite Collision　. Excellent CG simulation of a catastrophic impact with Earth. Minor nitpick: Not [...]
Another DC Thunderstorm
Ah, summer: season of hot, humid, unstable atmospheric conditions producing “Whoa Holy Crap” type thunderstorms, such as last night’s lightning-fest. We had a similarly violent storm just over a year ago, when I had my camera pointed out the window to catch the pyrotechnics. Here’s a video flashback to that storm, which was not all [...]
links for 2006-06-23
My Lady’s Tears. Anonymous, 1603. The Oxford Book of English Verse. Set to music in John Downland’s “Third and Last Book of Songs or Airs.” (tags: poetry music) ESV Reformation Study Bible, R. C. Sproul, Keith Mathison. Must get that. (tags: bible faith books shopping) Stockholm Metro Station carved out of rock and left cavelike. [...]
links for 2006-06-22
The SBC Resolution on Alcohol: A Matter of Shame. From Internet Monk. (tags: faith wine bible) Biblical Liberty and Terrified Baptists. Reformissionary on the SBC alcohol resolution. (tags: faith wine culture) Toothbrushes these days. From Cartoon Church. (tags: teeth tech fun) Apparently a site-specific browser history is now called a “contrail.” 2.0! (giggle) (tags: wikipedia [...]
Last.fm
I signed up with Last.fm back when they were still “Audioscrobbler.” The plugin was kind of crufty, needing to be manually installed and accessed via the iTunes “Visualizer” menu, and it didn’t seem very reliable, so I gave up on it and cancelled my account. Seeing leeched Last.fm output from a bot in iEatTapes IRC [...]
Police on Monday
I emerged from my apartment Monday afternoon to find several CHPD and MPD officers converging on the building. There were no sirens, but lots of radio chatter, and I wondered if some kind of drug bust was underway, or if a terror cell was operating in my building. Much as I would have liked to [...]
links for 2006-06-21
Do a Barrel Roll! Boeing 707 Dash 80 prototype completes a barrel roll during early flight testing to show the aircraft’s abilities. [crossposted to Metafilter] (tags: aviation history video) North Pole Web Cam (tags: webcams) The Rewards of Being Shy — Hochman 2006 (613): 3 — ScienceNOW. Shy people may be more responsive to a [...]
Squirrel Fishing
Still on the topic of squirrels, there’s apparently a new sport going around called “Squirrel Fishing.” It’s like fishing, but, as hinted at by the name, it’s for squirrels. You put nuts on the end of a line (no barbed hook, I guess, since you don’t want to hurt the critters), and try to lift [...]