2007 Jun 7, 4:35
A few weekends ago Sarah and I visited the
Woodland Park Zoo (Finding its website I'm amazed that its domain is 'zoo.org'. Somebody in Seattle was
quick on the domain registration.) I liked the zoo except for all the children. Human children... As visitors to the zoo... What did you think I meant? The kids are everywhere! Shouldn't they be
inside playing video games or something?
There was a gorilla that was wrapped in a dirty blanket. It looked like a homeless person and very sad. I'm reminded of the episode of the Simpsons in which
the octuplets work at the zoo and the scene in which while Homer is breaking out the children a gorilla tries to get him to take her child too. Looking for a
clip of this to post here I can only find clips from the Simpsons in German for some reason.
Like this one.
Two thirds or so of the way through my camera started running low on power. We were forced to choose which animals were camera worthy. Is it too common? Is it cute enough? Etc. Sarah
took a very nice shot of some hippos under these conditions. Unfortunately I couldn't get a good angle and view of the Elephants. But they were cool and had an interesting habitat (that's zoo for
large-ish cage.)
zoo personal nontechnical 2007 May 30, 9:34This is the lolcat's programming language.
code humor lolcats language programming 2007 May 13, 7:30My parents blog on their new motorhome exploits.|Parents
motorhome blog friend family 2007 May 13, 12:16My parents and grandmother came to visit the weekend before this current weekend, starting Friday May 4th. They arrived via their new motor-home which is quite the machine. Of course its my parents
motor-home so its very well decorated inside including drapes and mini-chandelier. I didn't have a memory card for my camera at the time but I'm sure my parents will put up photos on their
new blog dedicated to their motor-home at some point in the future.
At any rate, they parked the motor-home in an
RV park in Issaquah so that Friday night I drove over to them and we ate at the conveniently
closely located
Pogachas. The next day they came over and I showed them the various cool looking things my computer connected to my flat
screen TV can do. This includes
Vista Media Center showing my photos from recent trips and
Google Earth mapping out our respective homes and my recent trips (and Paris). Additionally, we played Wii which, unsurprisingly based on anecdotal evidence
from varied sources across the Internet, was a seeming hit. Mom broke records playing bowling with my dad and I, Dad did an excellent job fishing, and Grandma's slow but steady win's the race
approach to cow racing worked very well.
The next day I drove them to Seattle and we walked around Pike's Place. My parents made dinner that night at my place which was very good and made my apartment actually smell like cooked food. Also,
we exchanged Christmas gifts. For the past two years I've flown back to my parents' house for Christmas and ended up with gifts I couldn't take with me in both directions. Those I left at their house
they drove up and I was able to give them the ones I left at my place. They started the drive back the next day. I really enjoyed seeing them here.
motorhome family personal nontechnical 2007 May 1, 4:33In the past I've come up with ideas for software and find that the very idea is implemented soon after. So this time rather than getting down about it I'm going to make it work for me. I'll state
what I want to use and hope that its magically implemented. In order to uniformly support comments on my website I want a web service with the following features:
- Allow users to view and add comments for any particular URI.
- Use OpenID and optionally Card Space to
identify users.
- Use a captcha system that's optionally cute or humorous.
- Has atom or rss feeds of the comments available.
- Doesn't require users to register.
- Doesn't require any extra steps for commenting on a URI that no one has commented on.
I'm going implement this now so no one go off and do it before me so that I can use it without having to do anything...
technical homepage 2007 Apr 21, 11:38This previous Wednesday, I went to
trivia at the
Wilde Rover. Our team consisted of Sarah, myself, Jane,
Eric,
Rachel, and Ansen. Before the last round we were 16th (out of ~32) but after the final round we were 6th!
The previous time Sarah played there the exact same thing happened. Of course you must be in the top five to win money (or last place who gets their money back). You could say, of those who didn't
get any money we did the best! I didn't contribute too much except for spotting a street from Paris in the picture round and knowing which generation the Wii is of Nintendo home consoles. Mostly I
focused on increasing our bill =)
bar game personal trivia nontechnical 2007 Apr 11, 1:18Article on current 3D printer technology. Reminds me of an April fools article on Ars a while ago about nano-compilers. The future is now!
article fabrication printer 3d 2007 Apr 4, 1:23Home page of the pAved earth Internet radio station.
alternative music radio ska paved-earth 2007 Mar 28, 10:32Ciera's homepage.
ciera-christopher friend homepage calpoly 2007 Mar 21, 5:59Grandcentral is a service that acts as a phone proxy. Friends call your new Grandcentral number and GC calls all of your phones (cell, home, work, etc). The additional associated features are pretty
awesome.
phone grandcentral article 2007 Mar 19, 3:39Jim's homepage.
jim-fox friend homepage microsoft 2007 Mar 14, 12:44I've been working on a personal project
Vizicious. Vizicious displays a graph of your
delicious links or (this is the new part) your flickr photos.
I had this previously on my old website but I've rewritten it and separated out the presentation portion from the part that does all the real work. This means its alot easier for me to incorporate
new kinds of input (like flickr feeds).
Anyway, if you're not interested in the details just
click here to see my photos tagged 'france' run
through Vizicious.
vizicious technical homepage 2007 Mar 13, 12:24My project that given an XML list of items with tags produces an XML graph of those items and tags. I used this in one of my other projects Vizicious as well as on my homepage to produce hierarchy
for my project links.
me projects taghierarchy personal java 2007 Mar 5, 2:10Angie's blog. Doesn't look to updated too often... Hrm.
angie-sommer homepage boldlog friend 2007 Feb 16, 11:23This paper describes an attack on home networks using a page with javascript and java applets that takes over your router. Foiled by using the non default password.
security hack router browser javascript java article 2007 Feb 13, 12:03The home of Richard Ishida who works on internationalization at the W3C. Links to his blog, photos, writings, etc.
i18n w3c richard-ishida unicode encoding html blog photos 2007 Jan 19, 5:06PHP standes for "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor". Its an open source, server side scripting language. Its running my homepage.
php programming reference development web webdesign code documentation software open-source opensource quickreference 2007 Jan 19, 9:15I've moved my homepage to server-side scripting. Previously I've mentioned that
I was using client side scripting to interpret and sort my
livejournal and delicious entries together. Now I'm using
PHP and
XSLTs to process and sort my livejournal,
delicious, flickr, and librarything entries. See
my homepage for the finished result.
LibraryThing is pretty cool despite being pretty niche. Its like flickr but for books. I display a random sampling of the covers of books I have listed in
librarything on my page. I've also hooked the display of the covers of my book up to the corner image. Now when you hover over the cover of a book a bigger picture of its cover appears in the corner
of the webpage. Also, flickr entries in the main section how have the same on hover behavior.
This may not be the best use of my time, but its still fun.
librarything xslt delicious homepage flickr technical php livejournal script
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