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I don’t use Friendster anymore, so I cancelled my account. The testimonials were worth saving though, so I’m recording them here for posterity: Angie, 10/31/2003: Had a secret crush on him for a few minutes during our ORSEM even if he badly needed a haircut then. And I will forever remember him for the first […]
It sure has been an exciting year for space news, and things are just getting better and better: SpaceshipOne has made Earth’s first manned private suborbital spaceflight, paving the way for future space travel outside the government’s space program. The “X-Prize” is not won yet, however, until the craft is able to lift off with […]
That was a nice Saturday: bright, sunny, and breezy. Perfect day to explore Theodore Roosevelt Island. For un-automobile’d walking folk such as I, the easiest way to the island is via a bridge near the Rosslyn Metro. From the Metro exit (after turning around from the escalators), cross the street and the little plaza and […]
Last weekend’s highlight was a New Jersey Pine Barrens canoe trip with Amy and her church group, via Pine Barrens Canoe Rental. The canoe rental place itself seemed an anachronism: a building and a shed nestled in a clearing of cranberry bogs, nowhere near any rivers. That’s where we signed waivers and paid the rental […]
Meanwhile, at Segway HQ: “People aren’t buying our Segway! Why?” “Maybe because it costs $5000 and no one can afford that?” “No, that can’t be it.” “Maybe because it’s not blue?” “Yes, yes, of course! Make a new blue Segway at the same maddeninlgy exorbitant price! That’ll bring in the buyers and change the world!”
I’ve just returned from the Capitol Rotunda to view Reagan’s lying-in-state, with scant minutes to spare to the final cutoff. (Sorry, no pictures, as cameras were not allowed.) From the dawn line on the Mall to the public viewing in the Rotunda itself, a bit over two hours. After this come the preparations for the […]
By now, most of you have probably seen the horrific spectacle of a weblog post about a celebrity gathering comments from clueless web users who inexplicably believe they have found said celebrity’s contact form, or at least some online go-between. I’ve received, to a much smaller extent, comments for Kris Aquino and Bro Eddie, causing […]
Update, 2006: Opera 9.x is now free, and much more browser-like. Pretty much all of the stuff here can now be disregarded, except for the stuff about the status bar. Update, Oct 2004: Opera Looks Like a Browser Again! As of Opera 7.60, only steps 3, 5, 6, and 7 from this page are necessary. […]
I emerged from the Union Station Metro last night to flashing lights and milling, murmuring crowds, as security personnel called out, “the station is being evacuated.” “There’s been a bomb threat, bomb threat,” said a homeless man at the doors, as others sighed, “a fire, a power outage, a bomb threat, now how will I […]
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, […]