Entries from February 2003
The past and the south
“The past isn’t dead. The past isn’t even past.”
I’m not sure who said it–seems like something that Faulkner might have said–but there’s some truth to it. Certainly it’s silly to imagine the south is still the old south…but still, sometimes a story reminds you just how weird things can be in the south. The [...]
A spendthrift of goodwill
This page points out how many people around the world came out to show sympathy with the USA 16 months ago, and how many came out over the past weekend to show opposition to the Bush regime’s administration’s current bellicosity.
Amazing how quickly George II managed to spend all that goodwill.
Thanks to Gwen for the link.
fire connections
A little while back, I posted some test results of different kinds of fuels in firedancing. I included a link to the vendor of biodiesel (fuel made from soy). Apparently, that created some business for him, because he offered to send me a gallon of a new biodiesel formulation, and mentioned “Thanks for all of [...]
Firenight
Another Tuesday, another firenight. We had an especially good night last night. Four first-time burners, including the young Travis, who blew us all away. It’s been a while since I took pictures, but last night, I did (log in as “adamguest”, password “adamguest”).
Warbucks
Thanks to Bryan for these. Clicking on the small images above will pop up very large images that may take a while to load.
Living down to a reputation
In what comes off as a comical act of pandering to those hypothetical repressed middle-American kids who look through the magazine hoping to get a glimpse of titties, National Geographic, of all magazines, has published a swimsuit issue.
When I saw this on the newsstand, it was next to a tattoo magazine. The woman on the [...]
Chimera…Camino?
Bah. I really like Chimera, and I like the name. Apparently they can no longer legally use it.
Mike Pinkerton says he doesn’t want suggestions for other names. Tough. If they can’t use Chimera, I suggest Kimera. Or maybe Ximera, which has a certain OS-X pun quality. But it looks awful on the page. Or maybe [...]
Lego Vending Machine
More fun than a used-panty vending machine.
More on reversible
One issue that Prentiss has emphasized in the past is the need for adherence to a controlled vocabulary when categorizing information. I’ve wondered whether categories could be an emergent outcome of smushing a lot of data together. Well, perhaps, but we ain’t there yet. The chaos at reversible is evidence of that (which I contributed [...]
FormMail
I was checking over my error logs recently, looking for problem pages that should be redirected, and found repeated attempts to load FormMail. Now, I do have a form-to-mail CGI on my web host, but not FormMail. FormMail is by far the most popular of these widgets. I was briefly puzzled by the request to [...]
