Saturday, January 31, 2004
Yee haw subdued
Babe-olicious prime time reporter Diane Sawyer puts us back on the carpet re: Dean's post-Iowa fist pumping. The gist: what you see--or in this case, hear-- on TV does not necessarily reproduce the real thing in its rightful context. Yay, this is painfully obvious to anyone with half a brain, yet so darn easy to forget.
So here it is again:
tha scream.
Posted by Daev @ 04:35 PM CST [Link]
Actually this is not news, but Leisuretown is defunct. And I do miss it so, but
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Friday, January 30, 2004
Cold. It's coming down again.
Posted by Daev @ 05:24 AM CST [Link]
Which tense goes where?
Fun with poetry. [more]
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004
Check this out.
Look familiar?
Mix the content and design from two sites into something really... odd.
at topfx.
Posted by Daev @ 10:48 AM CST [Link]
Here`s a little something to do while killing time at the lab.
Find answers to the questions below. Send them to me as an email and I will correct your mistakes!
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Tuesday, January 27, 2004
This is the 200 pound car mechanic rOn again -
I'm asking people's opinion about dogs in Dresden and more specifically,
"Do dogs belong in bars in the Dresden-Neustadt?"
More thoughts about man's best animal.rm (693k file) friend.
Posted by rOn @ 04:08 PM CST [Link]
Yesterday we had two reports given on GPS. Today here are two things to do with your GPS:
Drawing and
Finding confluences.
Posted by Daev @ 08:43 AM CST [Link]
Monday, January 26, 2004
Parrots often make for weird disfunctional pets.
These dinosaurous survivors often outlive their masters. They exibit very human emotions, like frustration, affection, jealousy.
And everso often, a few specimen come to the forefront a-showboatin'
Like little N'kisi.
Or, as I mentioned before, the reverend Clancy. Check it out. It's a real gem.
And just to round it off:Churchill's ancient bird widow.
Posted by Daev @ 08:09 PM CST [Link]
cough...
Posted by Daev @ 05:43 PM CST [Link]
Boy was I in a foul mood this morning. I had this creeping fear that the Lab would be double-booked, so I hurried over to a computer to check one last time that my name was on the plan. For some odd reason, the website was not showing anything at all-- no calendar or anything.
Well, my fears were groundless, needless to say, but it sure made me uptight.
But having class with my little guys pretty much always picks me up. So I took some pictures of the little buggers today. [more]
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A few neato links for the pc-pool. [more]
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Saturday, January 24, 2004
I don't care what the stiffs say; I thought it was the coolest thing said all year.
Yee haw.
Posted by Daev @ 10:11 AM CST [Link]
Friday, January 23, 2004
"When the keepers found her she vocally responded -- it was almost a 'thank goodness you're here
'."
Posted by Daev @ 01:36 PM CST [Link]
It's awfully cold outside. Minus 10 C at the moment. But I had to brave the cold to get a few pretty pictures. [more]
Posted by Daev @ 03:46 AM CST [Link]
This week: Classes Mo. 4. DS, Mi. 6. & 7. DS meet in BZW 251.
L2 (Mo. 6. DS) Listening comprehension test.
Posted by Daev @ 02:56 AM CST [Link]
Yay! Some good samaritan turned in my passport.
Oh, by the way: I lost my passport. Where or when exactly I do not know. It was sometime between the 29th o' December and the following week, when I noticed it missing.
Some brave soul turned it in to the Einwohneramt. They apparently don't have my address anymore, which is odd. They should have asked the Finanzamt or the GEZ for that matter. So they called Berlin and asked if they knew my whereabouts. There, the embassy said that I was probably taking a world tour seeing as all one needs to leave the country is a library card... So then Dresden sent my PP to the consulate in Laipzsch, where some brave diplomat looked up my name in the Dresden phonebook and called me.
Posted by Daev @ 02:54 AM CST [Link]
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Belly Dancing Robot. Barf.
Posted by Daev @ 07:11 AM CST [Link]
Monday, January 19, 2004
It's high time to put Churchill's fine feathered dictaphone to pasture.
Posted by Daev @ 10:00 PM CST [Link]
We're off topic today.
A site all about Catnip (ger. Katzenminz.)
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Posted by Daev @ 09:12 PM CST [Link]
This week, Mi. 5. DS meets in GRU 150.
Next week, Mo. 4. DS, Mi. 5. und 6. DS meets in BZW 251. All my other classes meet in the usual spot.
Posted by Daev @ 07:23 PM CST [Link]
Sunday, January 18, 2004
A Flash presentation: the words of Brother Martin.
Listen close.
Posted by Daev @ 09:40 PM CST [Link]
Saturday, January 17, 2004
Funky Dirt Patch happened upon by Mars rover. It can mean only one thing, say scientists: Martian zombies! They'll be scrabbling out of their shallow graves as soon as the rover turns its back. Then, scientists speculate, they will board special zombie space vessels and make a bee-line for Earth. Destination: Pittsburg. They're coming for you, Barbara.
Posted by Daev @ 07:42 PM CST [Link]
Thursday, January 15, 2004
This article below is about something which I have been bothered by for quite some time: Surfer's Voice. You know who you are! I of course am to a degree also guilty as charged.
More interestingly, this article is just about the right length and difficulty --and having enough relevance-- to make it a suitable one for the L2 exams.
Posted by Daev @ 06:39 PM CST [Link]
A thoughful editorial from Jessica Stern, a bright lecturer at Harvard's JFK School of Government.
Posted by Daev @ 06:25 PM CST [Link]
13 year old computer geek gets 3 days school suspension for NET SENDing Hey! to all the computers at school. Spends time playing Vice City and learning more about NET SEND.
I spruced up my Pi Page yesterday.
Posted by Daev @ 05:28 AM CST [Link]
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
That darn athlete's foot -- we space cowboys call it missile toe -- has got its hold on me. Having no time to run to the apothecary for an antifungal spray, I used pepper spray instead.
Suddenly the phone rang. It was the entire population of Scandinavia conference calling to inform me I just won one of those Nobel things for being so damn smart.
Posted by Daev @ 05:50 AM CST [Link]
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
It has been brought to my attention that several email messages intended for me never made it, thanks probably to the spam filter I installed last week or so. If you have sent me an email recently but have gotten no reply, please try again now.
Posted by Daev @ 04:47 PM CST [Link]
I was wondering about this. I thought at first that it was email coming from my esteemed pal Luke Mariner, but alas no.
Posted by Daev @ 03:25 PM CST [Link]
Giant Robot! Help!
Posted by Daev @ 02:11 PM CST [Link]
Monday, January 12, 2004
As recalled by the anarchist almanac
The Daily Bleed:
I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze
than it should be stifled by dryrot.
I would rather be a superb meteor,
every atom of me in magnificent glow,
than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time
- Jack London, sailor, tramp, gold miner, author, Born on this day in 1876
[On the other hand, London committed suicide at age 40 leading Ford
Maddox Ford to say, "Like Peter Pan, he never grew up, and he lived his
own stories with such intensity that he ended by believing them
himself."]
--As for myself, judging by my appartment, I am fated to dust. Too busy sitting on me ass making cartoons.
Posted by Daev @ 09:09 PM CST [Link]
Yee Gads, what an ordeal.
Finally got the E-Card Short of in style launched, but it took hours to figure out why one of the php scripts wasn't working properly. I double checked permissions, reloaded everything to make sure it was in ASCII formatting, diddled around changing pathnames, capitalization...
It came down to a missing brace -- } -- without which, the server couldn't tell that a certain function was supposed to be over.
Oh well, at least it wasn't a metric conversion error.
Posted by Daev @ 08:36 PM CST [Link]
Saturday, January 10, 2004
Oh, not again. Someone got a camera for Xmas. Thanx, rents! [more]
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Thursday, January 8, 2004
We're gonna do it In Style.
Posted by Daev @ 10:18 PM CST [Link]
Oh boy. Robot blog. Jump, robot, jump!
Robot Zombies!
Posted by Daev @ 05:01 AM CST [Link]
Sunday, January 4, 2004
Yay. The Doctor hath returned to BBC.co.uk. And this time he's Flashified. A real treat for both Dr. Who fans and Flash freaks alike.
Posted by Daev @ 06:28 PM CST [Link]
Hello ev'ry body! It's the New Year `O4´!
and I weigh 200 pounds!
Posted by rOn @ 04:25 PM CST [Link]
Lil Wee Diary -- Final entree (sic)
If you need somebody, call my name
If you want someone, you can do the same
If you want to keep something precious
You got to lock it up and throw away the key
You want to hold onto your possession
Don't even think about me
If you love somebody
If you love someone
Set them free.
It's Lil Wee's last night at Hotel Rudi-Lenni. So we're gonna go out to a rabbit bar and get hammered.
No, No...
It wouldn't hurt to get a bit more of preparation done fore the morning and my first classes of the year. So we'll spend the evening reading through textbooks and dictionaries and grammars and chewing on carrots and lettuce and newspaper.
My buddy Sarah should be back tomorrah and then I must surrender Wee. People ask me how I feel about that and I tell them to check back tomorrow. To wax rhetorical, though I must say it's not so much that I'm losing a rabbit, but rather I'm regaining a friend.
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Posted by Daev @ 02:49 PM CST [Link]
Friday, January 2, 2004
Little Wee Diary
That is just adorable. Wee is all stretched out on her side on the carpet like a cat. She's dozing off... awakens with a start! Doooozing... awakens with a start! Watching her fall asleep makes me sleepy.
77777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777 oops just nodded off with my finger on the seven.
Now she's cleaning out her left ear with her back foot. Now she's licking her foot. That's kind of gross.
But what really gross is [more]
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Thursday, January 1, 2004
Last night's jam session had its moments. The drummer, an older fellow, must have organized it. He brought in his kit and a sequencer. The sequencer was too loud but the crowd was glad that it drowned out my guitar.
I played Man of Constant and Three is a Magic number, like always. Everybody left, but then came back when I stopped playing.
One of the managers from a NY jazz club in the 50s recalled booking Bird this one time, and Bird in turn booked a really bad country group to go on in between sets. People got up and left in droaves. The manager told them to stop playing and get off the stage. Parker said if they go he goes too. He was a-schemin', you see, to get more turnaround by vacating seats for each set. Pretty sneaky, Sis.
The house party was a real riot. It was still hopping when we got back around 4. The entire house looked like a warzone the next day. Someone lost the key to my loo, but it was found the next day. Martin's bike was stolen.
Wee was a big hit; she gave an utmost eloquent and lengthy toast to the coming of a new year. She reminded us to cherish the boundless possibilities that lie ahead of us rather than waste one single drop more of precious energy brooding over the unrevertable errors of the past. Well, she said it much better than I could; she is truly wise beyond her months.
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