Oh ho! The Relic Has Been Found!
Sunday, February 29th, 2004Will Wonders never cease. I have found it, the tale of Mr. Ba-gawk. Read on intrepid web surfer.
Those who were around for Mr. Ba-gawk’s glory days should recall this fondly.
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Archive for February, 2004
Random Road Trip
Saturday, February 28th, 2004Well, ok, it might not have been much of a road trip and all, but it was random. It did involve the road, too. And a trip.
Basically, I left my apartment (south of lovely DC [whatever]) to take out the trash and ended up deciding that, while I was out, I might as well pay a visit to some friends.
The radio decided who I’d drop in on first, since there was apparently a bad accident between myself and my friend K in Ellicott City. Thus off to Annapolis I went…
Unfortunately T and C in weren’t in, which I kind of expected since it was a Saturday night and all. Turned around and headed back to give K a try up in Ellicott City. She was actually in, which turned out well, even if it took a bunch of running around to find a place to eat.
You’d think that was an easy thing to do, but apparently everyone else had also picked the restaurants that we thought to stop in at. I caved and we went to Old Country Buffet. Their website is like their food (at least the one we were at); it won’t kill you.
Ah well, it was good company and a rather entertaining jaunt on an otherwise uneventful day.
Hah!
Saturday, February 28th, 2004Ok, that’s how the “Terror Alert” system should work. Thanks have to go to Wil Wheaton’s blog. I never would have seen the Terror Alert with a sense of community otherwise.
12,000th Floor - Vacuum
Saturday, February 28th, 2004Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
MikShapi writes "CBC is running a new piece on the Space Elevator. Nothing dramatically new, as we’re all still waiting for one of the many Carbon Nanotube research centers to announce they reached the famous 100GPa red line from page 10 of the NIAC Phase 2 Report, thus obtaining ‘unobtainium’ [pun intended], the material necessary to build the Elevator. The report predicts this will happen during the course of the next two years or so. It’s then that the fun really starts - A REAL all-out space race, open to everyone with will and a national budget, winner probably getting to own space [read last paragraph]. In the meanwhile, we can all spread the word, discuss, debate and brainstorm every nook and cranny of the program here on Slashdot, and give Edwards a shoulder by giving the program every bit of mass-exposure we can."
Hope you aren’t claustrophobic… seriously though, I guess I haven’t been paying enough attention. 1-2 years for carbon tubes with the appropriate properties, wow.
I would desperately love to go into space, though I’m rooted in enough sci-fi to want to head up there when we’ve got something nifty to look at orbiting. A space elevator might be both the means and the attraction.
Learned A Lot
Friday, February 27th, 2004Well, I certainly have learned quite a lot about CSS, positioning and the box model today. Err, tonight.
End result: the site actually works if a user increases or decreases the font size. There’s still a ton of work to do though.
Across the Puddle
Thursday, February 26th, 2004BBC NEWS | Magazine | Rocking the bench
The new judge is computer literate, he says. He or she “travels to court in a people carrier” and spends their leisure hours listening to “pop music” or visiting the pub.
Can someone, please, tell me what the hell a “people carrier” is; and why, by God, we should be shocked that judges, of all people, are riding in them? If I didn’t know better I might assume that they were referring to “horseless carriages”.
Woo…
Thursday, February 26th, 2004Look Ma, My Weblog is Up!
Yeah, whatever. After screwing around on my laptop to get DBI working properly, Winging It (running on MoveableType) is now running on something accessible to all.
The question, of course, becomes why. Well hell, I don’t know. Guess we’ll find out.