Archive for July, 2003
Time to knock off work.
July 31st 2003 at 9:58 pm
Time to knock off work. Spent all day working on schedules, urk. Had lunch with my sister and Emily (Emily made me lettuce wraps, how cool is that?) and played Quake Arena for 40 minutes with my sister (we kicked the computer’s ass, 88-15 kills. Last night we tried for 100, but the time ran […]
A letter up on Instapundit.com
July 31st 2003 at 9:57 pm
A letter up on Instapundit.com talks about how aid workers and NGOs in Afghanistan behave on the ground. Pretty depressing.
BBC New | Gay Showdown
July 31st 2003 at 1:40 pm
BBC New | Gay Showdown for US church. I know news agencies work hard for their titles, but for some reason this one just made me think of bishops in tight spandex leaping off of elastic ropes to smack into each other. “Next month, live on pay tv, US Church gay showdown 2003, in this […]
Gizmodo : Disposable digital camera…
July 31st 2003 at 1:31 pm
Gizmodo : Disposable digital camera… I want one. And for $11, I imagine so should everyone else.
Slashdot | Sci-Fi Memorabilia To
July 30th 2003 at 12:54 pm
Slashdot | Sci-Fi Memorabilia To Ogle And / Or Buy
A huge auction of Science Fiction movie memorabilia to check out up there. Kinda fun. Too expensive for my tests, but worth clicking around.
The Myths of Writer’s Block
July 30th 2003 at 12:48 pm
The Myths of Writer’s Block by Bruce Holland Rogers:
The solution for such writers is to know what they are going to write about before they sit down to write. This doesn’t mean that you abandon your regular writing sessions. It just means that instead of sitting at the desk in agony, you stand […]
Wired News: The Case for
July 30th 2003 at 12:46 pm
Wired News: The Case for Terrorism Futures is a Wired article about the new system of trying to create a ’stock market like’ bidding system on possible things like terrorism. It is really like grabbing the public to become giant think tank.
I would think that people inclined to enjoy ‘Smart Mobs’ and the democratization of […]
Cheaper Apple systems apparently give
July 29th 2003 at 7:15 pm
Cheaper Apple systems apparently give youMore Bang for Your Buck. Pretty much the same reasoning that led me to an iBook…
If you have a newer
July 29th 2003 at 6:44 pm
If you have a newer iBook (mine is the 900mhz) you may enjoy this hint for a script that will enable the iBook to have an external monitor (ie, like the 1280*1024 rez monitor I’m typing this on from iBook macosxhints - Enable external monitor support on a newer iBook
spacetoday.net: Poll shows continued support
July 29th 2003 at 6:43 pm
spacetoday.net: Poll shows continued support for NASA and shuttle program.
There is still hope. I got into SF/F because of the Dream Of Space. I’m sorry, I’m still a hoper, I still want to see people in space. It is a sort of Manifest Destiny thing that sometimes surprises me (considering what I view as the […]
