Category: lj-import

Just to warn you people, there\’s a bot out there that IMs two random people with the initial message \”i say, old bean, have you seen my hat?\”, then relays their messages to each other. So, you have two people talking to each other through an intermediary screen name, both of which think that the…

In Mars news, it looks like there may be standing pools of water on Mars. If this is confirmed, it might shake a long-held perspective that liquid water on the surface is impossible due to Mars\’s thin atmosphere. Weta Workshop, the people who did the physical effects (costumes, armaments, etc) for the Lord of the…

Come now, what is this? Two picture posts in a row? I just returned from a four-day family trip to Central Oregon. Most of these pictures were taken on a bike ride with my dad on the McKenzie River. It was a nice trail ride, without too many rocks and roots to bother us, and…

I just got back from visiting Nathan in San Francisco with Sarah and Aaron. I won\’t make a full post right now, because I feel like sleeping, but I\’ll post the pictures. Most of them are on Flickr, as always, but I\’ll put a couple here. They\’re mostly from downtown San Francisco: [ See all…

xkcd author Randall Munroe gives a talk at MIT. The pictures are awesome: Those who follow xkcd will appreciate the raptors that stalked him and the playpen balls that were scattered about: Among the dinosaurs that menaced xkcd artist Randall Munroe during his lecture at MIT were a pair of radio-controlled velociraptors that occupied a…

If anyone doubted the fact that the RIAA is merely a floudnering industry trying to keep itself afloat by whatever dastardly means are available to it, think on this. The RIAA has acquired legal authority to receive royalties for any music streamed online, no matter who controls the copyright. Perhaps I shouldn't bother bringing stuff…

Sarah was working on writing accounts of 9 different species of birds for her ornithology class, so I decided to sketch each of the birds as she got to them. I used references from Google, of course. It was very fun. [Birds for Sarah]

The very young: 3ish-year old landlady The very old: The Zimmers

I was talking to Aaron last night, and I wanted to use the term \”ur-poem\”, in a rather limited sense. But I wasn't quite sure if that would be precisely what I wanted to say, so I did a quick google search to see if it was common. For \”ur-poem\”, I recieved rather disgusting results.…

I paint in Photoshop. I compose poetry in my favorite code editor. Mmmmm.