11.05.02
Linux Humor Pearls
Okay, I understood about 90% of this and only recognized 50% of the names. Not too bad for a Mac user… Linux Quotes of Humour. Duplicate in the Read More.
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10.26.02
Buy Bush a Playstation
This is funny. Buying Bush a PlayStation, plus a couple of ‘war’ games in order to keep him from invading Iraq.
If only it would work.
10.23.02
Sniper References
The news is reporting that the police were asked to say “caught like a duck in a noose” for the sniper who has been terrorizing the Washington DC area. I wondered what it could mean so I did a Google search.
Some of the results are below. Most of them revolve around a story about a rabbit who gets a noose around a duck, but the duck then flies away, carrying the rabbit with him.
Perhaps he’s leading the FBI on a wild noose chase…
Choice returns from Google:
Searched the web for duck in a noose. Results 1 – 10 of about 5,880. Search took 0.07 seconds.
Native American Lore for October 1997
… caught it. The duck struggled hard and finally spread its wings and flew up from the water with the Rabbit hanging on to the noose. …
www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/1097lore.html – 8k – Cached – Similar pages
The Rabit, the Otter, and Duck Hunting. —
… among the remaining six ducks. He quickly fastened his noose around the neck of the closest duck. Startled, the duck began to struggle …
tsalagi-l.net/rabduck.html – 7k – Cached – Similar pages
Marty’s Trading Company – ducksupply.com – Duck Decoys and Goose …
… Decoys Runamuck Decoys “Keeping the art of hunting decoy carving alive” As duck … Goose Noose Decoys Goose Noose decoys The slightest breeze brings to life the …
www.ducksupply.com/decoys.html – 14k – Cached – Similar pages
Daffy Duck on Laserdisc!
… Person to Bunny 54. Daffy’s Inn Trouble 55. Quackodile Tears 56. Good Noose 57. Fast Buck Duck 58. The Million Hare 59. Aqua Duck 60. The Iceman Ducketh 61. …
www.geocities.com/bugsvideo/daffylaser.htm – 19k – Cached – Similar pages
Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting
… The duck took him. Rabbit threw the noose over the duck’s head. The duck went flying out of the water into the sky. Rabbit got tired of holding on. …
www.dnet.net/jparker/duck.htm – 4k – Cached – Similar pages
ARCTIC STRING FIGURE PROJECT
A Man Throwing a Duck Noose (Indian Point) 1. Position 1. 2. R1 distally catches up L5f from the near side (fig. 149a). … 149q – A Man Throwing a Duck Noose.
www.isfa.org/arctic/149.htm – 7k – Cached – Similar pages
10.20.02
You Control for OSX
This is the kind of control I’ve been looking for: uControl allows me to do lots of keyboard remapping. I can get a mirrored layout when using the space bar so that I can type with just my left hand (my tendinitus has been acting up again) and I might be able to make additional fn-keys like fn-` for delete and fn-tab for return which would allow me to get through my Mail with just my left hand too.
10.16.02
Nick News
NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS have confirmed details of a new album ‘NOCTURAMA’.
The album, the follow-up to ‘No More Shall We Part’ is released on February 3, 2003 via Mute. The album will feature 10 tracks, including the forthcoming single ‘Bring It On’, released on February 17.
The album has been recorded this year at SingSing studios in Melbourne by the Bad Seeds line up of Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Blixa Bargeld, Thomas Wydler, Martyn Casey, Conway Savage, Jim Sclavunos and Warren Ellis.
10.12.02
Gobble dey gook
What is this site? http://www.merchandiseinfo.com/. It’s just bizarre! There are tons of pages with clipings of actual text throughout it, but strung randomly together in near English manners.
Weird. It must be some GoogleBombing site. Take a look at this search and the domain for the results: google.com/search?q=%22contai[…]rs%22&filter=0
10.06.02
Free Certs
Whoa! http://www.CACert.org sends out free security certificates that are good for 180 days… 6 months.
So I can run a secure server as long as i renew every 6 months. It would be pretty easy to perl/shell/apple-script something that would do that aoutmagically even.
I’ve included the originial text I found on a mailing list this weekend under the Read more link.
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09.22.02
Xtion to X Part 2
A few more pieces of software that I haven’t had to bring over to OS X:
One of the major helps for me in MacOS 9 was “Joliet Volume Access”, but I have not had to deal with Windows format CD-ROMs for some time. I don’t generally even mess with ZIP disks. Anything small enough to fit on an Iomega ZIP disc gets transfered via e-mail of ftp. So although I got help out of the Joliet Volume Access extention I find I no longer need it.
Control Stip Module: CDStrip
Now this would be nice to have back, although it’s there in a way. CDStrip played the CD that was in the drive. The only problem is that I rarely keep a CD in the drive! Everything gets ripped the instant it comes into machine. However the idea that there would be a quicker way to get some music playing would be great. iTunes is wonderful but a small MP3 player without the MP3 ripping or organization tools that could sit on screen and play at a moment’s notice.
Really, I’d love to have the Services menu come up to the top level of the menu bar, right next to the Help menu that could be used to start a playlist from iTunes. With only 128mb of RAM, it’s enough of a barrier to launch a new program the size of iTunes that I usually keep my music off.
Control Stip Module: FM Egg Timer
I’ve used this to set when it’s time to grab the laundry from the laundry room. It would be nice if the system clock could have a stop watch added to it, much like ye old SuperClock had way back in the System 6, System 7 days.
Lego Maths
Okay, this takes the cake: Lego Models of Significant Mathematical Structures. I really like the Kline Bottle (the first Kline bottle that I’ve liked, ever) and the figure-8 knot. Tres Cool.
(Really, I will get back around to updating this more often. Right after the freelance work, the MCAI work and the Newton project and the mail are responded to. Stop laughing.)