First day of spring. I should feel refreshed. I feel more like an ant trying to swim across a river.
Author: Doug McCaughan
New Level of Pain
I don’t think I’ve ever quite experienced pain the way I am experiencing pain in my left wrist. Now, I’m huge into mind over matter. On a cold day think warm thoughts and you can feel warmer and such. However, this pain is physically weakening. Sometimes I can barely squeeze something to be able to lift it.
This is one of those times that if I was insured I’d be visiting Barry Bridges (Chiropractor) or my GP. I’ll just follow my brother‘s advice.
RSS is cool, but you miss the layout changes
For those of you that read in RSS, the cam is back!
Splish Splash Now She Needs a Bath
I stole an hour this afternoon and Amy, Evan, Cathy and I took Molly out to the dog park. Molly was very excited and relatively well behaved. Some other dogs were running free and I let Molly off leash. This was the first time she realized she could go in the pond. The other dogs did and she tried to figure out how to simply get a drink but then put a paw in, then two paws, then all the way (it’s shallow at the top of the waterfall), then plop! she laid down. The entire time she is biting at the water as if she hoped to pick it up. She walked in circles chomping the whole time and then started jumping and splashing and jumping and splashing. It was riotous!
While there I was pleased to be complimented by a dog judge and therapy dog trainer for my handling of Molly. She even asked if Molly did shows!
DIY Spider
A little wire, 2 leds, a watch battery and a pager motor makes a robotic spider. DIY via Flickr pictures.
This week’s focus
Let’s not forget our focus this week.
Why “A cup of Joe”?
Josephus Daniels (18 May 1862-15 January 1948) was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913. Among his reforms of the Navy were inaugurating the practice of making 100 Sailors from the Fleet eligible for entrance into the Naval Academy, the introduction of women into the service, and the abolishment of the officers’ wine mess. From that time on, the strongest drink aboard Navy ships could only be coffee and over the years, a cup of coffee became known as “a cup of Joe”.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: Have you ever lost hope?
Master: Have you ever looked deeply into the eyes of an infant?
Of Grasshoppers
Student: Am I a bad person?
Master: Do you really need to ask?
Make a 30 second ad
Firefox is having an ad contest for a 30 second advertisement. Entries must be submitted by March 31, 2006. I have an idea if anyone has access to some video production equipment and editing skills.
JJ Abrams Directs MI: III
J.J. Abrams makes his big screen debut with "Mission: Impossible III" (The colon looks wrong there).
[he] told a crowd at the theater-owner convention ShoWest that he set out to make an action film that put characters first, spectacle second.
Directing Lost, Alias, and a movie. I wonder if one movie/style affects the other.
The Frenzy is on!
Blingo is giving away $100 gift cards in a frenzy right now!
It lasted 30 minutes. I watched it but had done my 10 blingo searches already.
From the mouths of babes
Amy: Daad? Can I borrorrow your mail?
Dad: Sure. Borrow my mail.
Amy: Mom! Dad said yes!
Flip 0 and 1
As a programmer you often have to track the state of something. Let’s say your application shows a report for night and a different report for day.You would want a variable that lets you know if you are looking at the nighttime report or the daytime report. Lengthy programming discourse follows.
Pain
The Internet makes my wrist hurt.