These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 03/31/08 … please enjoy:
Mad Magazine's Fold-Ins, Past and Present | The New York Times
Al Jaffee's fold-ins for Mad magazine, from the 1960s to the present, in interactive form.
Circuit City Tries To Install Navigation System, Causes $12,119 Of Damage To Your Car | Consumerist
Circuit City caused $12,119 worth of damage to VTECnical's 2007 Honda Civic while trying to install a Pioneer AVIC Z2 navigation system. Honda later declared VTECnical's car a fire hazard and told him it was unsafe to drive
Seder caters to blacks, Jews with collard greens, sans ham | Palm Beach Post
Besides the traditional bitter herbs and sweet wine, a Passover seder on Thursday will include unexpected treats: collard greens and sweet potato pie. The idea is to recall the shared struggles of Jews and African-Americans, said seder organizer Eunice B
Lightning Review: Electric Socks | Gizmodo
In honor of the upcoming Tahoe reader meetup on April 5th at Alpine Meadows, I'm going to be doing end of season review of some outdoor gadgetry that's been floating around the cabin. First up, these electric socks originally designed to keep North Atlant
Hachiko: The World's Most Loyal Dog | Gimundo
The most loyal dog of all. Hachiko the Akito's master, Ueno, died of a stroke while at university. Hachiko didn't realize that he was gone, and so the dog returned to the train station every single day to await his master.
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It’s not quite April yet, but it looks like the storms have started a day early. Not only did it rain all night, it’s looking like it’ll continue through most of today:
Now, I love storms… I really do, but some of you may remember back in October when I complained about our leaking roof. I left off with the following paragraph:
That’s right, after months of telling the management that we can hear dripping when we stand in the kitchen, and them saying they’ve fixed it, the water that’s been slowly rotting the roof broke through right next to the light on the ceiling (I’m sure that’s good for the wiring). Nice. So here I sit, missing work, waiting for the roofers and the maintenance crew to get their collective butts up here to fix this. Sigh They’d better get here soon, seriously…
Well, if soon meant “5 months later we’d still be waiting for them”, then they may get here soon. That’s right! After many calls and many excuses by the management as to why it hasn’t been fixed yet (they’re too busy, now it’s too wet, now it’s too cold, now it’s too whatever I can come up with), this is what we get this morning:
Sweet… that looks familiar (note the new crack). For those wondering, it’s white now because it got painted over… not fixed. So I wonder what the excuse will be today? “Too wet,” maybe? “Too busy,” possibly? Maybe we should just get too busy to pay rent? I wonder how well that would go over? It’s not like we’ve been forced out of our house recently because their faulty equipment started a fire, and it’s definitely not like we’ve ever had issues here before. Updates whenever they happen, perhaps next year some time.
These are my daily “Good to Know” links for 03/31/08 … please enjoy:
More parents using txt language to make their child's name gr8 | the Daily Mail
It might not be every parent's idea of a "gr8" way to name a baby.
But our growing habit of using text messages to communicate appears to be having an impact on what we call our children. Anne has been changed to An, Connor to Conna and Laura to Lora.
Boob Physics | Club Skill
They bounce, are semi-buoyant, and males seem to not be able to get enough of them. They are breasts. In an odd way, the physics of breasts have become a huge factor and trend in the world of gaming; it?s quite interesting how this whole trend started.
World's Hardest Easy Geometry Problem | ThinkZone
Using only elementary geometry, determine angle x. Provide a step-by-step proof. This is the hardest problem I have ever seen that is, in a sense, easy. It really can be done using only elementary geometry. This is not a trick question.
Newton Virus – Art virus for Mac | YouTube
Spice up your colleagues' day with our Newton Virus, the first virus to introduce gravity to your laptop, causing the desktop icons to fall down as if subject to the gravitational pull from the real world.
Life's little mysteries | the Daily Mail
Why do women wear high heels? Why are soft drinks in round containers while milk cartons are rectangular? And why did kamikaze pilots bother with helmets? Here, ROBERT H FRANK uses economics to explain these situations we encounter in everyday life.
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Welp, Jess and I just finished our first run of the season! It was incredible!! We’ve been worried that she would be unable to run after her accident last summer in Denver (she slid down the side of Mount Ida and landed on a log with her leg, among other things), but it turns out it went well!! No pain, no issues, no problems! We decided to go the shorter (about 3 miles) route down around Chalco Hills (Wehrspann Lakes), but it was still great! I know this is kind of a boring “so what?” post, but it was exciting to run outside again after the long winter! Whoooo!!
Edit – It’s now 8:45 pm, and Jessica’s toenail has cracked in half it seems from the pressure of the run. While not uncommon, she’s completely upset at it. Poor dear!
WordPress 2.5 (Final) has been released… go fetch it here:
WordPress 2.5
I shall be upgrading in just a few minutes! As usual, I shall edit this post once it has finished!!
EDIT - All done! The biggest change I see right away is the plugin page now has the Active Plugins shaded green and the inactive in white… I like that much more than the gray and white they had been playing with.