Archive for June, 2006
Squirrel Photos are Interesting
Seems like the quickest way for me to get into Flickr’s Explore feature is to take photos of squirrels. Squirrel at Fountain and Squirrel on My Knee both made it to the top 10 of Interestingness within a week of each other on 06/06/2006 and 06/11/2006. Do me a favor and click on the squirrel [...]
links for 2006-06-20
Computer Arts – 50 ways to become a better designer (tags: design business) Spaceflight Now | STS-121 Shuttle Report | Shuttle launch date set despite safety objections. Obsolete 20 year old space brick with stubby wings to launch amidst shower of deadly foam projectiles. (tags: space) “Whaling and gnashing of teeth.” This Guardian weblog entry [...]
Nationals Beat Yankees
Whoa, whoa, I missed this news over the weekend: Nats beat Yanks! Yesterday’s game was clinched by Nationals Rookie Ryan Zimmerman in the ninth inning, with a walk-off two-run homer on a pitch delivered by Yankee pitcher Chien-Ming Wang. Score was 3-2, which is just classic Nats: they’re not great scorers, usually much better on [...]
links for 2006-06-19
cheap and tiny // Philips Real-Time PC Webcam for $21.99. I actually just bought this one, and it’s an okay webcam for the price. (tags: webcams tech shopping) cheap and tiny // Gaming Webcam with USB hub for $36.99 (tags: webcams tech shopping) cheap and tiny // Omron Digital Pedometer for $18.74. “Inside it is [...]
Old Communion Equipment
Saturday was Church Work Day, and we came across some lovely old communion equipment in the locker behind the altar, like this communion cup holder (If not for the cup holes I’d say it was a cement scraper) and silver juice pitcher with air pump: More photos here.
Recent Reading
The Witch of Blackbird Pond. I’ve been on a semi-nostalgic run through kids’ literature, and I wanted to see how my perception of Witch had changed since I last read it in high school, now that I actually know a thing or two about American history and culture. The setting felt far more familiar, though [...]
links for 2006-06-17
Upload Progress Bar / AJAX File Uploader: FileChucker – by Encodable Industries Perl-based file upload progress bar script. (tags: perl js server tools) Holy Mackerel! You got Sun Myung Moon in my sushi. (tags: food sushi religion cults) The Housing Bubble Blog: An Over-Supply Of McMansions. Giant houses in the suburbs are not selling like [...]
“Send a Helicopter”
He’s a tall white kid, about 16, long brown hair, goatee, wearing loafers, jeans, t-shirt, and a brown jacket, all very clean looking. He very quickly jumps the turnstile beside me at Union Station, landing a bit heavily. I give a quick “Yo” to the WMATA security personnel who are helping tourists nearby, but they [...]
WJLA: They’re Not Good with Their Grammar There
Whoever does news graphics for TV’s ABC7 News in DC fell prey to their/there confusion last week. Oops. More on “they’re, their, and there.” It’s okay. People make mistakes. There, there.
links for 2006-06-16
Rayford Zork. Slacktivist interprets Left Behind: Eternal Forces as classic Zork-style text adventure. (tags: games faith fun) i am sparticus: Left Behind: Eternal Forces. Sparticus’ laundry list of theological ludicrosities on the game website. (tags: games faith fun) Watercone by Jamais Cascio. Similar in principle to a solar still, but inverted to drip into a [...]