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Mr. Seezen's Choppin' Blog
Thursday, March 31, 2005
I was looking for a solution for a client -- he wanted a chatroom on his website that made a little signal everytime someone entered it. So, like IM sans login. I found this thing. Just wanted to try it out before I put it on his site. So there.
How odd. No phones, but the internet works. And someone has changed the wiring from the wall to the modem, but didn't bother to tell me. That's creepy.
Even Better than Wings Wing hails originally from Hong Kong but moved with her family to New Zealand ten years ago. She's been taking singing lessons and performs in hospitals and nursing homes. And she's got a number of albums out there. Dancing Queen is a fine example of her work. It's a fun track.
While she probably won't have a hit on the charts any time soon, she has generated a lot of interest on the internet, and I believe in some way has brought a little bit of joy to many people. To the world of music she is akin to what Rudy was to Notre Dame football. So, I'd say she pretty much embodies everything that's wonderful in music--that thing that made all of us musician cats simply have to take up an instrument.
In her own words, "I have worked hard and I hope you have all found I am improving.
Thank you for all who supports me helping me very much as I go along. "
Last week we talked about travel in class. In pairwork, I handed out slips with prompts such as "you like cheese", whereby the students were to discuss where one might travel to satisfy this particular interest.
Another was "You want to learn Tango". The answer, to me at least was obvious; why don't you travel to Argentina to see how it's done? [more]
The Nazi turnout was pretty lame. I caught this picture of the tail end of the procession, which would be a little more than half the whole bunch. The counterdemonstration turnout was a great deal larger.
So tomorrow's the big day in the Neustadt. The Nazis are gonna go a-marching through my quarter to protest it as being a "hive of leftist terrorism" and other such absolutely absurd claims. [more]
Those lab monkeys at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York done smashed a coupla gold nuclei together and may have made a black hole which lasted for "10 million, billion, billionths of a second".
Let's see... that's 10,000,000 ...000,000,000,000... 000,000,000,000 ths. That would be ten nonillionths of a second, I think. Or 10 x 100^27 in scientific notation, right?
That might explain why everything sucked so much for a bit just a while ago.
It would seem that someone swiped Ole Man Winter's dentures, for today it was absolutely wonderful outside. I tore up the sash and threw up the shutters on all ports.
I am also watching after Rob and Chloe's pad for a few days while they are in Prague. Those two are a sympathetic couple of organic types whose apartment smells of ground ginger and sandlewood. They wanted me to start up their oven on Friday before they get back. But what with this nice weather I don't know if it'll be needed. So I used their shower and ran out into town with no coat and wet hair.
I recorded another song yesterday. Be Cool. Honestly, the mix sucks and still needs work. But I am otherwise happy with how the tune turned out. This was the first of a string of numbers that Ron and I came up with on a truly collaborative path. So that said, I am tweaked over this song. Still, it needs fixin' so I haven't linked it up on the DDC site yet. But you monkeys can have a listen if you were so inclined to do as such.
You know those travel coffee mugs with the wide conical base? One time Dad drove us to school and we learned that they fall off the roof of the car at around 30 mph.
When I worked at a pizza place, and at the end of the night there were always a few pizzas left over, I learned that a pizza in a cardboard box only stays on the roof of your car until right when you pull out of the parking lot.
Another student of physics learned that you can leave your kitty on the roof of your car and go at least ten miles. E=Meow*C^2.
Yay. I got me a new used monitor for just twenty bucks today. As you know, I've been griping about how dark mine has gotten over time. In fact, the last two weeks, I've been surfing completely blind. I have this software that reads words when you mouse over them. It's pretty sweet, and it's from the same company that made 3D Minesweeper. The seller was a lovely chap, and he even did me the courtesy of driving me down the block to my place so I wouldn't have to risk slipping on ice and busting my ass while shlepping the thing home.
Garrison is right; sometimes life can be very easy.
