Archive for November, 2006
Overheard on the Metro
“I can’t believe you’re still seeing him; isn’t he, like, twice your age?” “I don’t mind, really. It’s so wrong, but at the same time, it feels so right. Besides, he’s a triathlete, and he’s got a hot body.” (Giggling) “He’s there in Colorado, I’m here in Washington, so he’s … convenient for me … [...]
New Webcam Page
The original webcam page had a single still image uploaded every minute from the Unibrain Fire-I, my primary webcam on the iBook. I recently purchased a Philips SPC200N as a backup plugged into my Windows PC, to keep an eye on the cat when I’m out with the iBook. For a time, each cam would [...]
links for 2006-11-16
Mars Global Surveyor Falls Silent: All Other NASA Spacecraft at Mars to Assist Recovery Efforts. Contact was lost with MGS just around its 10th anniversary. NASA/JPL will attempt to locate and revive contact using its other Mars craft. (tags: space nasa mars) Happy 1,000 sols for Opportunity! Planetary Society sends the MER team some cool [...]
Skipping Austen for Karnow
The next book on the reading list was supposed to be Jane Austen’s Emma. I had already downloaded it from Gutenberg and converted it to Palm DOC PDB format and HotSynced it to read in eReader, but then my eyes alit on the first line… Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home [...]
Recent Reading: Wind, Sand and Stars
Most people know Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for his classic The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince), but Amy introduced me to another of his famous works, Wind, Sand and Stars (originally Terre des Hommes in French), via an aged, yellowing volume which she had picked up from her church library. The book is a collected series [...]
links for 2006-11-15
Junkfunnel Labs: Suspicious Looking Device. “The only function of the Suspicious Looking device is to appear as suspicious as possible, whether carried in hand or placed indiscriminately in public places.” (tags: fun tech terror hardware) Men and Contemporary Worship. Locusts and Honey critiques Dave Murrow’s views of masculinity and contemporary worship. (tags: faith) Catmas: a [...]
Update on Pingdom Referrer Spam
Update, 11/16/2006: See this comment from Pingdom on the issue. They claim they are tweaking the GIGRIB bot for better behavior and will soon have a working monitoring page on the other end of the referrer. (Preview of that here.) Update, 2007: Well, the public monitoring page never happened, and Pingdom’s spoofed referrers still forward [...]
links for 2006-11-14
A List Apart: Articles: Super-Easy Blendy Backgrounds. Have two PNGs gradiating from transparent to white and black, and put them over divs with background-color, and you’ve got easy colored gradients. (tags: css design) Anil Dash: The Problem Is, The Zune Is Brown. (tags: microsoft zune) Engadget: Installing the Zune… sucked. Multiple crashes, hardware detection failure, [...]
Polished Wing
Matt’s entry on Flickr “detail” sets got me looking through some of my old photosets, and I found this forgotten gem in Views From Plane Windows, which I had failed to post to my weblog at the time. I think it’s the wing of a United Express / Mesa Airlines CRJ-100 over New Jersey last [...]
links for 2006-11-13
Read Express: Around Town: The View From Camp Meigs. Some history of the area around the New York Ave / Florida Ave / Gallaudet University metro station. (tags: dc) Spaceflight Now | STS-116 Shuttle Report | Discovery mission extended; moving up launch ruled out Interesting tidbit: shuttle computers aren’t designed to roll over to a [...]