05.24.04
Silly Dino
It’s just silly, but I keep sitting here giggling over it…
Dino found in New Zealand volcano
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05.21.04
battle ground
yay, we’re one of the 17 key battle ground states for the next election. my vote counts more than yours does. ‘ha-ha’
pardon the lack of capitals. teleport doesn’t support the shift key yet.
(post edited to correct an unfortunate spelling of “shift”…)
05.17.04
SubEthaEdit Two Point Oh
Yay!
SubEthaEdit is the collaborative text editor that is super cool. Imagine a single document, with multiple cursors and different people controling each cursor. I’ve talked about it—raved about it, in an earlier entry and now 2.0 is here with the polish that we hoped for rather than the feature overload we were worried about.
Mac OS X only, check it out…
05.13.04
Long Strange Trips
Everett cab driver Mark Forbes, an ex-military, ex-cop, ex-plumbing parts salesman, likes to say there’s an adventure every day in the taxi business.
What began in the wee hours of Saturday, April 10, was more. It was a big yellow odyssey.
It had been a busy Friday night, with all the usual runs to Seattle nightclubs, local bars, casinos and grocery stores.
Near the end of his 12-hour shift, a Yellow Cab dispatcher radioed Forbes, 62, to make a pickup at the Days Inn on Evergreen Way.
He pulled into the motel parking lot and saw two men emerge from a room. He looked at his watch –5:30 a.m.
The men had no luggage, so he was sure he could get them to their destination before his shift ended.
To the Sikh temple near Seattle, said the taller of the two men.
(Sikhism is a monotheistic religion, rejecting Hinduism’s caste system, founded in 15th-century India by Guru Nanak.)
The cabbie started the meter, shutting off the 1991 Chevrolet Caprice Classic’s roof vacancy light.
Forbes hadn’t the faintest idea it would take more than nine days and 2,300 miles to get back home.
05.10.04
Offsides Rules
Amy sent this to me to help me out. I still have yet to catch a violation before an official does, which is the hallmark of understanding said rule.
Offside Rule in Football (Soccer)
To be in an offside position, a player must be on the opponent’s half of the field and closer to the opponent’s goal line than both the ball and the second-last defender (goalkeeper is considered the last defender). A player is not in an offside position if he is even with the second-to-last defender or on his own half of the field.
The player must be involved in active play by either:
- gaining an advantage by being in an offside position, or
- interfering with play, or
- interfering with an opponent
For example, if a player is in an offside position but not involved in play, he would not be offside. This is a tough call. For example, what if the onball attacker is to the right of the goal but a teammate is in an offside position to the left of the goal? You can argue that the teammate wasn’t involved in play, but you can also argue that he distracted the goalie because the goalie had to worry about the possibility of a pass and thus the attacking team gained an advantage by being in an offside position, in which case the teammate was offside. In this case, the referee’s decision might depend on whether he felt the goalkeeper was influenced by the player in the offside position.
Special Cases: a player is not offside if he receives the ball directly from a goal kick, throw-in or corner kick, even if he is in an offside position; however, once the ball is touched, the offside rule starts and if it is then played to a player in an offside position, offside may be called. A player is also not offside if he passes the ball backward, even if doing so leaves him in an offside position. However, if he is in an offside position and the ball is played back to him, then he can be called offside.
Offside Trap: When defenders intentionally move forward to try to trap an attacker who doesn’t have the ball in an offside position.
Mail Enhancement
I came across this yesterday:
http://home.insightbb.com/~n9yty1/MailEnhancer/
Its got four options that it adds to Mail:
- Show activity viewer when doing a manual mail check.
- Display a status dialog after doing a manual mail check.
- Dock icon count shows all unread instead of just inbox unread.
- Automatically update signature to match sending address
I’ve installed this at home and it works great. I’ll be adding it to my iBook’s Mail as well. The option that super rocks is the automatic choice of signatures based on the e-mail address you’re sending from. This is something that I’ve been missing ever since I switched over from Eudora on OS 9.
I actually downloaded Eudora the other day with an eye to switching back. Mail’s handling of large volumes of mail has always bugged me and the lack of ‘personalities’ or ‘profiles’ that you can switch back and forth between easily really sucks. Eudora has some other cool features like great filters and a way of letting you know if a filter hasn’t been used in a long time. Three more things I miss about Eudora:
1) In Mail and Eudora, you can hit the space bar to ‘page down’ an e-mail. That works fine and on mail you can even use shift-space bar to ‘page up’. But in Eudora, if you hit the space bar when you’re already at the bottom of an e-mail, Eudora will close the mail you’re reading and open up the next unread mail automatically. It allows you to page through your new e-mail very quickly.
2) The mail transfer menu. It was really easy to sort your mail in Eudora when the list of mail boxes was right at the top of the menu. In Mail, there’s a Move To command but it’s buried underneath the Message menu. Sucky.
3) Eudora lets you edit the subject lines of mails that you’ve received. This sounds simple, but when you’re filing things away like passwords or other important stuff, being able to change the subject from “Re: FWD: [2] Re: I Can’t Get IN” to “New Password for FTP” make it much easier to find in your mail box.
But getting back into Eudora, I realized how creaky it is. I mean, Mail may be immature, but it’s got that built for OS X feel going for it. It’s like Eudora is in maintenance mode. I’m not sure it will ever be quite as tight with OS X as Mail already is. The display on screen feels old… Is it something to do with the Mishawaka font that Eudora uses?
So far there’s no perfect solution and I’ve got enough mail in Mail.app to stick with it. For now.
05.05.04
SportsNight
Boy… Having this boxed set would sure save me from having to download all those episodes. Just think how much faster our net connection would be…
Welcome Wired Readers
Welcome to you Wired readers who are here via the Blogging with the Newton article. Here’s an example of an entry that was authored and posted via my Newton.
I use a Newton MessagePad 2000 with NewtsCape and NetHopper to surf the web. I’m using a Lucent WaveLan Silver wireless card to do all of my syncing and surfing. More info on my Newton at my other site.
05.03.04
Cholesterol and Testosterone
Taken from BodyBuilding.com:
Testosterone is a 19-carbon steroid hormone produced primarily by the Leydig cells of the testes (in men) and the ovaries (in women). Smaller amounts are produced in the adrenal glands of both sexes. As a “steroid”, testosterone belongs to the androgen class of hormones that also includes dihydrotestosterone (DHT), dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), androstenedione, and androstenediol. Six other classes of steroid hormones exist, including estrogens, progestins (some female contraceptives are made of these), mineralocorticoids (which help control water balance), glucocorticoids (mainly anti- inflammatory compounds), vitamin D, and bile acids.
In men, approximately seven mg of testosterone is produced each day, and blood levels range between 300 and 1000 ng/dL (10-28 nmol/L). Females, on the other hand, produce about 1/15th of this amount, leading to average blood levels of only 25 to 90 ng/dL (1 -2.5 nmol/L). All steroid hormones are derived from the sterane ring structure, composed of three hexane (6 carbon) rings and one pentane (5 carbon) ring.
[R: and that’s just to get us started…]
Source Divergence Potential
It’s not an error count or a mistakes/per time unit or goofs.
It’s “Source Divergence Potential”.
Will that fool anyone? Maybe if I only refer to it as SDP?