If you want to see something amazing, check this out. Esref Armagan is blind, and has been his entire life. Yet he is able to create paintings of objects easily recognizable by anyone. New Scientist has an article about the painter. He is being studied as a unique case that may […]
How else would you explain why about half of all American’s believe that Iraq was involved in 9/11?
Now CNN has an article describing how high school students these days simply don’t know about the 1st amendment. Here’s what a study found:
1 out of 3 students, when read the full text of the 1st amendment, […]
They Think They’re Newsworthy…. 1/31/05
Well, it’s a rare weekend where I get everything done that I had planned on. It’s ever rarer that I’m able to get some free time in there as well! Well, this weekend was a real gem, then.
I not only got competely caught up on both projects I had this weekend, but I […]
They Think They’re Newsworthy…. 1/30/05
Today was good — I got a fair amount of work done, and got a little further in learning to program in Python. I’m looking forward to starting a new Shakespeare tonight!
For now, though, we’re having a junk food night! We have frozen pizza in the oven, and a big bag of Cheetos. […]
How pretty! We’ve got just under three inches of snow — it must have stopped pretty soon after I went to bed last night. The roads weren’t bad at all (I drove Erin to work this morning, just in case), but everything else has a beautiful white blanket on it.
I finished Coriolanus last […]
They Think They’re Newsworthy…. 1/29/05
We were supposed to have a possibility of three inches tonight — but at the rate it’s going I wouldn’t be surprised at twice that. It’s only been snowing the last two hours — light and fluffy, the perfect snow — and there’s already two inches or so. It’s supposed to continue […]
A Londoner donated to the tsunami aid relief fund — and was arrested for it! The problem was that he accessed the webpage using Lynx, a popular text-based web browser, on a Solaris 10 operating system. The admin running the site didn’t recognize the lynx/solaris signature in the event log on the server, […]
Apparently all MGM movie DVDs that were released between the end of 1998 and the beginning of 2003, that were marked as being “theatrical wide screen” were actually the pan-and-scan versions, with the tops and bottoms cropped off! Here is the list of movies. Here is more information about the class action lawsuit. […]
They Think They’re Newsworthy…. 1/28/05
Well, thanks to a weird misunderstanding with one client, the project I thought I’d be working on all day today was put on hold (again). Which means it’s probably going to get started at the same time as a couple of other projects that are getting back on the plate next week. Fun.
I’ve […]
This is awful, yet those with a very dark sense of humor might find the situation amusingly ironic.
A man in L.A. wishes to commit suicide. He parks his Jeep on the tracks of a commuter train. At the last minute he chickens out, and jumps out of the vehicle. The train slams […]
They Think They’re Newsworthy…. 1/27/05
Killy stood by himself for another couple of seconds tonight — and then a couple of minutes later, crawled two steps (a new record). It’s a close call which one he’s really going to master first. He can work his way around holding onto things (cruising) pretty well now, even changing support objects. […]
Here is the web design sizing document/flyer I mentioned a few days ago. I think it turned out well. If you’re a web designer and find it useful, feel free to hand it out to your clients too!
Why so small?
They Think They’re Newsworthy…. 1/26/05
One down, 43 to go (counting the sonnets). I finished “Troilus and Cressida” last night! It took a little longer than I had hoped for, but I don’t feel so bad because I looked up some analysis online, and one described it as one of Shakespeare’s more difficult plays. The play takes […]
They Think They’re Newsworthy…. 1/25/05