Posted in amusing, geekiness on September 10th, 2005 No Comments »
Google, always a leader when it comes to the collection and presentation of fascinating data, recently took their excellent Google Maps interface and applied it to the moon.
Just don’t zoom in too closely. They’ve only got so much data, so everything beyond that is… well, sort of speculation.
Posted in amusing on September 10th, 2005 No Comments »
I’m not really a big quiz person these days, but I found this interesting, particularly since I’m in the middle of planning a major cross-country move.
Your personality type is RCUAI
You are moderately reserved, moderately calm, unstructured, accommodating, and intellectual, and may prefer a city which [...]
Posted in amusing, geekiness on August 24th, 2005 No Comments »
Here’s a pic of my cell phone camera, with some random schmuck in the
background.
(In case any geeks are keeping track, like for scoring purposes: pic taken
on cell phone, sent to Palm via bluetooth, emailed from Palm via wifi to
Gmail, pulled from Gmail via cron job and autopublished to WP using Postie. [...]
Posted in amusing on August 24th, 2005 No Comments »
Once more… This time with feeling (or at least with cron jobs)...
In case I don’t get around to deleting this before I go – I’m just
tweaking the blog-by-email settings a bit with the new Palm email client
(Snapper, which is much better than VersaMail).
Okay, that should do it. See you in Portland.
Or [...]
Posted in amusing, words on July 25th, 2005 No Comments »
From Mark Leyner’s book, My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist:
He’s got a car bomb. He puts the key in the ignition and turns it—the car blows up. He gets out. He opens the hood and makes a cursory inspection. He closes the hood and gets back in. He turns the key in the ignition. The car blows [...]
Posted in amusing on July 21st, 2005 No Comments »
Today’s infantile amusement comes from the fact that (a) answers.com provides pronunciations for profanity, and (b) it’s pretty easy to link to those pronunciations directly.
Oh, not necessarily safe for work, by the way. Sorry, was that too late? Doh.