Try fitting one into your normal routine… <<SOURCE>>
…pun intended…
Science Rules
I watched another episode of Discovery’s ongoing series – 100 Greatest Discoveries – on The Science Channel this evening. For those out of the know, the series is hosted by the one and only Bill Nye the Science Guy, who is the epitome of why I like science in the first place – it can be fun and amazing and not boring if you want it to be!
I’ve only caught a few of the episodes – I missed the very first ones – but after they get through chemistry and biology in the next couple of weeks, I hope Discovery takes the lead and releases the entire series on DVD in the near future. They’ve managed to release all of the American Chopper episodes for outrageous fees – this is really the least that they can do for us…
Keeping the spirit after the holidays…
Do you think it would be considered lazy and/or tacky to simply opt to keep my Christmas tree up all year round?
It still looks nice to me, and it really helps to bring the room together, if you will. Also, I don’t really have anyplace to put it once it’s been dismantled anyways, so what’s the harm in just leaving her be and spreading the love until it’s time to put presents underneath in another eleven months???
Blogging Innoventions…
I discovered a new blog that has done quite a fine job at keeping my attention over the past few days that I thought I’d share…
You may know Brad Templeton as the head honcho behind the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or even earlier from rec.humor.funny, but me, I was just happy to discover a blog that discusses more than what the author had for lunch! The link above will take you to an archive of ideas and invention possibilities and all sorts of other neat concepts that have crossed the man’s mind over the past year – mostly technology-based, but not always. Some of my favorite ideas included a home version of the classic soda machine that works from standard two liter bottles and a roaming user profile for the PC that would turn any desktop into your home machine with only a CD. We also share a lot of ideas about the capabilities of fiber optics over the next several years.
If you’re looking for a good read, and you’re a science geek technologist like myself, then click away…
Zone Alarm sucks
I finally had to kill it again today when it wouldn’t allow me to access any of my shared drives anymore. I’ll never understand how people can swear by this product – sure, it’s got a pretty interface, but maybe it was never intended to run on an independent box that just shuffles files back and forth. Why it still hasn’t managed to learn the difference between my desktop computer and any other PC on the Internet after using it for damn near a year, I’ll never know.
I don’t have the energy to find a replacement, so the Windows XP firewall is going to have to be good enough for now. Anybody have any opinions as far as what I might have a little better success with? I’m looking for firewall protection to go on a computer that basically just distributes Internet access to the rest of the house and holds a few other shared drives for movies and music and such…
“Good news, everyone!”
Music Industry Must Respect Privacy of Filesharers
Ruling in Charter Case Smashes DMCA Subpoena Powers
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision today that will stop entertainment corporations from gaining access to the names of people using peer-to-peer (P2P) networks unless the companies file lawsuits against them and furnish actual evidence of copyright infringement. <<MORE>>
“We have ourselves a quandary, Batman…”
So I’ve been surfing around to the websites of various writers that I knew from back in the day in hopes of finding an idea or two for the redesign of my own site and sadly, I’ve come to only one shocking conclusion: most of them aren’t there anymore! Whether they legitimately left the business or their domain names merely got snagged out from under them and it didn’t seem to be worth the hassle to continue, the majority of the links under the Columns – Humor Writers in my bookmarks are now officially defunct. And not to mention that Dave Barry himself has officially “quit the biz” for the time being – nothing like being a mood killer, let me tell you!
On second thought, maybe I don’t want to all-out ditch the layout that I’ve worked so hard to develop anyways. Perhaps a little tweaking here and there would be just as effective as a full-blown facelift, and without half of the headache, either. I don’t know what I could change – it’s very difficult to consider asthetics when I rely so much on clipart to cover my lack of artistic ability anyways! Plus, the writing is supposed to be the focal point anyways…and then again, “You’ve gotta get ’em in the door before you can sell them any cheese…”
I’m officially torn – what do you think, America? (…and beyond…)
Boob-a-riffic!
We had a topless protester at work today.
Ok, well she wasn’t actually on our floor, but we could see her out the window sitting down on the corner of Kennedy and Franklin by the park.
Apparently she was concerned about the circus or something…I don’t know – I wasn’t really paying attention to that part…
Look out, Outlook!!!
Ok – it took me over an hour, but I finally sat down and cleaned out the e-mail portion of Outlook at home. I believe there was something like six hundred unread messages sitting in my inbox, so it’s no wonder that I didn’t really even bother to try anymore! Nonetheless, I think that I have everything organized a little better now – newsletters, which make up the bulk of my mail these days, are going to separate folders, thus allowing my personal mail to actually stay near the top – so we’ll see…
In fact, Resolution #8: Keep up on the e-mail better in 2005!
You see, I’ve developed a really bad habit of simply ignoring mail these days, or at least the stuff that still comes in from Just Laugh. Now in my defense, I don’t reply to that stuff most of the time because we officially closed down six months ago – sign on the door and everything – and yet I continue to receive submissions and link suggestions and whatnot all the time! Nonetheless, I’m considering reopening a very small portion of the site with this new missive of mine for 2005, so maybe this would be a good opportunity to at the same time make it a little clearer that things are done around that front…but at the same time, yes – I’ll make it a point to be more polite and inform any new submissions of our current situation!
Next stop: Outlook’s address book …ugghh…
New Year’s Resolutions – version 2005
At their finest – here’s to hoping that I can keep them this year: