From Brad's delicious shopping mall observations:
The local PBS station operated a store here called "Store of Knowledge" that sold educational videotapes, toys, books and trinkets. The Store of Knowledge has gone out of business, but Waldenbooks offers three entire racks of books "...for Dummies".
Every game available in the video arcade requires the use of some kind of gun, except for Ms. Pac-Man who, in this day and age, should probably at least be carrying Mace.
Word of the day -
- e-potato - The online equivalent of the couch potato. From The quick guide to Register jargon.
A clever command my friends at Brown introduced me to a few years ago - the bastard operator from hell excuse of the day. For those of you comfortable with unix, try typing the following command (or package it in an executable - mine's called "why"):
- telnet bofh.engr.wisc.edu 666 2>/dev/null | grep excuse | cut -c17-
And then do it again. And again. For more on the background, try the bastard operator from hell archive.
Day trip to the Oregon Garden today. Yes, there's only one, and the whole state has to share. Photos: a christina-aguilera's-coiffure-themed clematis, a spotted lily (reminiscent of rotting meat to attract the copious bees), mom and barbara becoming one with the topiary, and a tiny flowering sage.
My recommendations to Qwest: When you have an average hold time of 30 minutes on your customer support line (that somehow balloons to nearly two hours), pick a muzak song longer than 2 1/2 minutes to loop over and over.
Words of the day:
- Random number - n. Seventeen.
Password - n. Label stuck to computer monitor containing date of birth, car registration number, maiden name, etc.
System - n. or a. Word appended to description to increase perceived importance.
From Terms used in Cryptography and IT Security.
From Bryce's Italy travel weblog: "Learned that 'pesca' means peach, not fish...very comforting because fish ice tea didn`t seem as appealing."
The friendly folks at Network Solutions give you some recommended extras when you search for a domain name with them. Not only will they let you know if something like slimyfootdisease.com is available, but they also suggest companion names, like myslimyfootdisease.com, e-slimyfootdisease.com, and slimyfootdiseaseonline.com.
Word of the day:
- kottke'd - to have your website linked from jason kottke's popular weblog. Means increased site traffic and a definite plus in the coolness factor. See also megnutted, bloggered, and ev'd. Used by Luke Seemann in his fabulous road trip weblog.
For those pesky stains, there's howtocleananything.com, complete with a search engine. Here, you try:
FYI, the top user-ranked movie ever on the Internet Movie Database is Pride and Prejudice (1995), with a score of 9.2 out of 10. However, it has fewer votes than the runners up (with scores of 9.1), which are Memento (2000), Shichinin no samurai (Seven Samurai) (1954), and The Shawshank Redemption (1994). In case you're wondering, the biggies like The Godfather and Star Wars had 9.0s. Mr. Darcy trumps amnesia, samurai, Rita Hayworth, the mob, and Ewoks.
I rewatched Breakfast at Tiffany's recently, and once again was struck at the poignant filmmaking. Plot, actors, camera angles, wacky cameos, and Cat. Since I haven't pointed it out here before, Annie Tomlin has a touching Audrey Day story. Before you go there, though, remember that a girl can't read anything without her lipstick.
Spent the day at the Oregon Country Fair. A plethora of half-naked, painted, pierced, and cross-dressed people. Lots of tofu, although the woman who asked the groovy enchilada guy where the hamburger stand was actually got an answer, so as you can see, everyone's palate was catered-to. Glitter, jugglers, children, candles, parades, an energy fair, yoga, bellydancers, live music of all varieties and languages, and more interesting people than you could ever hope to meet. Being the type-A that I am, I've already finished posting the photos. So, you can be there vicariously. As the gray-haired guy on the bus regaled, he feels like Eugene is stuck in a time warp (to the sixties), and if there is a God, "he must be a tripper." Oregonians (and neighbors), there are still two days of mirth yet.
Reality Monopoly cards - "Bank error in your favor . . . yeah, that happens." Link from brainsluice.
For your burning APA formatting questions: you can ask an expert. They promise a 48-hour turnaround, although they've been sitting on my question for a week. Wondering whether a clause is restrictive or nonrestrictive? When to capitalize "Web"? How to cite an electronic source, such as a *weblog*? Ask away.
On NPR this morning: According to a California dream researcher, Republicans have more nightmares than Democrats.
The lovable, yet misunderstood, red robot from exploding dog has branched out since we last visited him. Our intrepid adventurer is taking over the world, in a video game (it's worth playing all the way to see the ending) and by shaking his groove thang. Go, red robot, go!
Lesson that should have been learned a month ago when cat + water dish on windowsill + monitor ventilation shafts were combined: liquid by computer is a bad bad thing. Lesson learned instead: scary-looking but functional keyboards are $4 at Goodwill.
Why is my darling Dictionary.com using popunder ads? Shocking. My rudimentary cookie-hacking understanding has led me to the following solution, which you're free to try if it disturbs you as much as it does me. Now, we can't mend our wounded sense of all that is right and good in this world, now that the once beacon of honesty is employing dastardly and hard-to-trace credit card ads, but we can at least stop the darn things from appearing. Here's what you do:
- Go into your Windows\Cookies\ folder, and find any cookies for the domains flycaster and engageaudience (the parent company), and change the * in the last line (which I, again with my miniscule cookie-encoding knowledge, am guessing is a place for an expiration date) and change it to a date in the past with the following fomat: Wednesday, 04-Jul-01 23:12:40. Et voilą.
Word of the day:
- zeitgeist - the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era. Used in a Google press release showing the top queries, misspellings, languages of everyone's favorite search engine.
Hope your fourth of july rumpus was exciting. Here Sean demonstrates that he didn't listen when his mama told him not to put sparklers in his mouth.
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