You can't predict when.
The Rapture index attempts to predict how close we are the the end of the world by running the numbers. The higher the total number, the closer we are.
Friday - 09.20.02
Snow White is gonna kick yo ass.
From the why the heck not category: Disney preps martial arts 'Snow White'
Pop vs. Soda.
The great Pop vs. Soda debate. A national survey draws the lines.
Nashville. Running the numbers.
Combine sixteen hours of driving, a 2821 room hotel, one late night trip to WalMart to complete outfits, two transvestites seen in a Wendy’s on the way down, five hyper-active waiters, hundreds of talented musicians, lots of free internet acess, two of the coolest sound techs ever and the absolute best burrito I have ever eaten, and you end up with trip that isn’t about the numbers. It is about the people. (You have my permission to take the previous two sentences out of my cliché allotment for the next two months. It was an accident. Really.) Ann’s Group didn’t win anything. But they turned some heads. They were they only group there doing technically tight three part harmony. Actually they were the only group doing three part harmony of anykind. They did good. Heck, they’ve only been together for four weeks and only practiced once a week. They did very good. They could go all the way. They just need to figure out what all the way they want to go to.
And if I may take a moment to brag on my wife here. If you’ve never heard her sing. (You probably haven’t, I barely get to hear her sing and I live with her.) Then you will know that she has an amazing voice. It has a richness seldom heard. Just beautiful. On top of that she can make up any harmony part to any song as she sings it. That just blows my mind. I’ve had years of voice and other music lessons and I can only sing harmony if I memorize it note by note. Ann rocks.
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From this Slashdot conversation thread on the evolutionary nature of language.
Making McDonald’s healthier.
Making McDonald’s healthier. Discontinuing
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Operation Desert Off!
Operation Desert Off! Bush sends troops to West Nile
Wednesday - 09.18.02
Hey! Look over there.
Busy working. Pushing Pixels in a most literal way. Expect proper updates tomorrow after I out race the fed-ex truck. In the meantime, ExplodingDog.com presents: Look ma no hands!. We loves ya!
Tuesday - 09.17.02
NES cards.
Nintendo encodes classic NES games using dots on the back of trading cards. A scanner cart for the GBA will play them.
GM's new AUTOnomy
ScientificAmerican.com: A flat car with alterable configuration. The everycar. More reading: General Motors and Popular Science. Canadian Driver has some photos from the 2002 International Auto Show.
Black Budget.
The Atlantic: Nick Cook, a respected military journalist, describes his foray into a hidden "black world" where powerful technologies of warfare are born.
Monday - 09.16.02
Opryland freenet speed tests.
After I noticed sustained download speeds of > 325kb per second I decided to run some speed tests on the OpryLand network. Compare the Opryland freenet to my home DSL line. I don't know what it is, but I want what they’re having.
Saturday - 09.14.02
The underground Opryland freenet.
Direct from the convention center balcony in the Gaylord Opryland hotel in Nashville, TN. I have an annoucement. Every RJ-45 jack in the public areas of the hotel is a free broadband internet connection. These jacks can be found in every hallway and room in the convention area of the hotel. But my personal favorite is in the little room at the top of the elevator in the food court area of Delta Island. Just a quiet little room, a couple couches, a breeze, a nice view and the Opryland's best kept secret. Free internet access.
Or, if that doesn't work for you. You can always pay the in-hotel Kinkos $15 a day. ^_^
Friday - 09.13.02
“Get out while you still can...”
EscapeRail.com is putting together a community gallery of fire escape photos. I submitted a couple. You should too.
Wednesday - 09.11.02
Musicville!
To those of you who don’t know. Ann (my wife) is a singer, and she’s darn good at it. She is currently singing with a group Called Nevaeh. The exciting part about all of this is that we are leaving today to drive down to Nashville so they can compete in a big competition. I'll have a full report on sunday once we get back.
And if that wasn’t cool enough, we get to stay at the most excellent Opryland Hotel. Rock!
Democracy is hard.
Democracy is way too hard! Political science from the perspective of preteens. [ gleaned from: Ordinary-Life.net ]
Tuesday - 09.10.02
Genesis.
Even in darkness the light shines. In dad’s greatest grief he always could see the good in people because he believed God could and would change them through the power of the gospel. He was patient with people for whom I had no patience. He with gracious with people for whom I had no time. He let people work for him long after he should have fired them He could always see the light.
Many of us have been encouraged by his faith in us, but it was really his faith in God to work through us. No matter how dark it got, dad could see the light of God’s glory reflected in us. It wasn’t that he was patient with us, which is how we experienced it. It was that his heart was fixed on Jesus and he was trusting the Lord when the rest of us couldn’t do it anymore. He could see the light. Now he sees it more clearly and more brightly, but he could always see it. Even in darkness the light shines for the gracious and compassionate man.
Excerpt from the message my father gave at my grandfather’s funeral.
Today is the two week anniversary of my grandfather’s death. Tomorrow is the one year aniversery of the terrorist attacks on NYC and the pentagon. Destruction is a powerful motivator. I don’t think that it is an accident. The world was designed to work this way. A cycle of life if you will. The examples are everywhere. A rotting tree fertilizes the land around it. Jesus died that we might have life. Death is required. But it is up to us to make something out of it. Be it rebuilding New York or merely believing. Don’t forget what got you where you are. Build on history. Look to the light in the darkness. In that light you will find God.
Many thanks from me and my family to all of you for your support over the past couple of weeks.