Posted in Fun on Mar 27th, 2003
Last night I went roller skating for the first time in over 18 years. We went to Ron-A-Roll in Vernon. It’s funny how roller skating places never seem to ever change.. Same old music, same old lighting.. the only thing in the entire building that wasn’t a complete anachronism was their use of [...]
Posted in Industry on Mar 21st, 2003
This scientific american article (from Slashdot ) details research by IBM into giving computers the ability to generate human-like speech in real time. They even have a website set up where you can try this out. Cool stuff. Imagine suver.com with it’s very own voice.
Posted in Fun on Mar 18th, 2003
If you haven’t seen the Happy Tree Friends yet, you don’t know what you’re missing (from Memepool).
I’m going to Best Buy tonite to get my copy on DVD.
Posted in General on Mar 14th, 2003
The Conventional Media Wisdom of Obedience
This is interesting.. I especially enjoyed this line:
When a country — particularly “a democracy” — goes to war, the passive consent of the governed lubricates the machinery of slaughter.
Wow. I never knew passive consent was a lubricant.
Now I know you’re asking yourself, “What’s a Dawson’s Creek Talker?”
Well, [...]
Posted in Fun on Mar 14th, 2003
This is a motorized bike where the entire powertrain fits inside the existing frame of the bike. It holds 1/4 gallon of gas, and the maker says it gets 20 miles on a tank.
How cool is that? It looks like it comes as a kit, and they claim it can adapt to any [...]
Posted in Code on Mar 10th, 2003
The Perl Whirl is a yearly cruise for seasoned Perl coders. You basically get on a luxury cruise ship, and attend seminars on Perl all week. Some of the keynote speakers are pretty cool, including the infamous Larry Wall, inventor of Perl. Yeah it’s dorky, but I wanna go really bad! [...]
Posted in General on Mar 6th, 2003
I’m glad to see the Whitehouse is finally publishing it’s policy on Children Smoking. It’s about time!
Posted in Code on Mar 5th, 2003
Some screenshots of the latest version of Windows, code named “Longhorn”, have leaked. Some of the screen shots look kinda cool. They actually remind me a lot of KDE (a GUI that runs under Linux). One of the more interesting (albeit mostly useless) features is the ability to restrict guest user log [...]
Posted in Movies on Mar 2nd, 2003
Meet the Feebles (1989)
Starring:
A cast of the most foul-mouthed, perverted, sexually deviant, wonderfully inappropriate puppets you’re ever likely to see on the silver screen.
Directed by:
Peter Jackson (Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Heavenly Creatures, Bad Taste)
Brief Plot Outline:
A TV variety show named “Meet the Feebles” stars an overweight Hippo named Heidi, whose husband, Bletch the Walrus [...]
Posted in Fun on Mar 2nd, 2003
What I find most interesting about this picture isn’t so much the old-skool mod to their cell phone (very nice), it’s the 12 sided die in the upper right hand corner.
Pure Genius!
Homer Vs. Kidd
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