04.25.03
Posted in General
at 2 pm
A cool e-mail I got the other day:
Thank you for submitting ideas for TriMet’s contest to name the Interstate MAX Long Bridge. Vanport Bridge was the overwhelming winner.
You are one of several contest winners. Your prize is bragging rights for naming the Interstate MAX Long Bridge and an Interstate MAX preview ride with your friends. We’ll contact you when the Interstate MAX line is nearly complete and arrange for your special ride.
Bridge dedication
In the meantime, join TriMet and honored guests at a dedication ceremony at the Interstate MAX Delta Park/Vanport Station on Friday, May 30th, the 55th anniversary of the flood that wiped out the entire Vanport community. At the ceremony, a plaque commemorating the city and those who lived there will be unveiled.
I helped name a bridge! Those of you who understand my fascination with major public works and transportation will figure how cool this is for me.
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04.21.03
Posted in General
at 9 am
I had no idea ther was such a thing as ‘Big Sugar‘. The Guardian has an article on this.
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04.20.03
Posted in General
at 4 pm
I came across a list of April Fool’s Jokes through out the last couple of centuries. This is my favorite one:
“The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement describing the tenth anniversary of the small island of San Serriffe. [...] its two islands were named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse. Its leader was General Pica, and its capital was Bodoni…”
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04.18.03
Posted in Dreams, Life
at 8 am
Very strange dream this morning. The main crux of it was that my cat Simone had been ‘possesed’ by a demon and was all red, and racing around a house (and then my parents’ kitchen) and I had to corner her.
That’s what I get for watching Buffy *and* a Satan episode of South Park in the same night I suppose…
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04.17.03
Posted in General
at 1 pm
Two blogs have started back up recently:
Peter Meholtz and Ken Bereskin’s Radio Weblog
Peter is a UX/UI/IA guy at Adaptive Path, and very smart. Ken Bereskin is the product lead for Mac OS X at Apple and posts lots of cool nook-and-cranie notes about updates and stuff.
Blogs were the topic of conversation at the Dev Group meeting last night. We showed the new website and Nick Finck was the speaker.
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04.15.03
Posted in General
at 10 pm
Amy sent me a quiz, which told me:
You Are FreeBSD
You’re a speed demon and a great networker. You have a tendency to give it away for free. Well-respected, but virtually unknown.
That’s okay, but Amy is Amiga. How cool is that!?!?
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04.11.03
Posted in General
at 9 pm
I’m so a Rowdyruff boy!
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Posted in General
at 10 am
Okay that’s a new term for me:
“It may sound obvious but I too have War-toothed in the occasional coffee shop, train station and computer lab only to be stunned at how many people had wide open PowerBooks and phones. To be safe ensure that all sharing is turned off (System Preferences > Sharing > Services), Bluetooth is turned off (System Preferences > Bluetooth > Settings) and that OS X’s built-in Firewall is turned on (System Preferences > Sharing > Firewall) at all times.”
The Firewall and settings stuff is old hat, but the term ‘WarTooth’… That’s pretty cool. 
(From PowerPage)
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04.05.03
Posted in General
at 1 pm
Damn… And this is at the House.gov web site:
http://www.house.gov/appropriations_democrats/caughtonfilm.htm
No, I’m not for spending tons of money on stuff, and I think that it’s bad for most activities to require government funding.
But I am for doing what you say you’re going to do.
Example from the page:
Program: No Child Left Behind
Image with caption: Bush talks up the need for education funding at the one-year anniversary of the No Child Left Behnid Act [1/8/03]
Quote from Bush: “This administration is committed to your effort. And with the support of Congress, we will continue to work to provide the resources school need to fund the era of reform.” — Bush, 1/8/03
The Actual Budget: The President’s 2003 budget – the first education budget after he signed and touted the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) – proposed to cut NCLB programs by $90 million overall, leaving these programs more than $7 billion short of what was authorized under the bill. Bush’s 2004 budget for NCLB is just 1.9% above what he proposed in 2003 – $619 less than needed to offset inflation.
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04.01.03
Posted in General
at 12 pm
I sent to the NewtonTalk Mailing List:
Has anyone been able to tune the UHF channels using the 3COM NTSC TV Receiver? The 3CXTV589DT seems to pick up channels 2 through 12 no problem. (The local PBS station comes in great, and looks pretty good in 16 grays.) But our local WB channel, FOX channel and UPN are all in the UHF range.
Do I need to get a different antenna? Right now I’ve just rigged up a small FM antenna, using a pigtail, similar to the N-type connector that I used on my Lucent WaveLan silver card.
I’m hoping that PCBMan’s work on the wireless coax adapter will let me forgo the entire broadcast realm and hook into my cable line. I’m sure Comcast will be surprised when they see my MP2000’s converter box emulator show up on their network!
The final cool piece will be when Hiroshi gets his Bluetooth driver finished and I’ll be able to change channels and volume using my Sony/Ericsson phone, just like I’ve got it controlling my iTunes.
Anyway, if anyone has any tips for getting those UHF channels to come in, let me know.
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