Don’t even ask me to retrace the lengthy and bizarre websurfing path that led me to it, but here’s a comic strip (of sorts) that caught my eye and made me laugh:
A softer world (May 21st 2004)
Author: Karel Kerezman
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Sans Webcam
You’ll notice the OfficeCam link that normally lives right below the contact information at the top of the right-side column is gone. This is because I’m changing around the computers in my office, so the machine that normally provides the webcam “service” is unavailable for a while. I’ll get it running again at some point in the next few days, if at all possible.
We apologize for the darkness.
(Update: I’ve got it back. Not only that, but the cam page actually looks like the rest of the site to a certain extent. Whee! I may be having some problems getting it to refresh, though, so if the image never changes for you please let me know. Thanks!)
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The Return Of The Mighty G
Portland radio listeners have been waiting with bated breath to see, or rather hear, what KNRK will do with itself, post-Marconi. Two parts of the answer are now revealed.
One, the new domain and website, including logo and nomenclature. (By the by, if you don’t like having your browser window forcibly resized, I recommend getting a better browser and setting the Javascript options accordingly. Ahem.)
Two, a familiar face I was pleasantly surprised to see in the hallways this morning: Gustav! He’s back, folks. In fact, he’s (officially) the only air talent confirmed to be in the new lineup. Sadly, I can’t even begin to guess or hint at who else will or won’t make the cut… but it’s good to see The Mighty G again.
Mind you, it was sort of surreal creating an email account for him… again. Heh.
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Camping At The Coast
Here’s the short version, because it’s much to hot and icky to concentrate right now. (I’ll probably come back and fill in anecdotes in the Memories category later. I said, probably.)
Thursday, Dawn and her friend Adam swung by and picked me up for a trip out to the coast to camp with a group of friends of theirs. The weather was beautiful, the company was excellent, and the only real downside was the darned mosquitos. (There weren’t even any bees. Yay!)
Seriously, does it get any better than wandering up and down the beach in between hearty meals and afternoon naps and snarky conversation? Not by much, it doesn’t. Just about the only complaint I could lodge is that there weren’t any interesting clouds to make the sunsets more cameraworthy. Hmph.
Speaking of which, I took over 100 pictures. Sadly, most of them are bunk. What’s salvagable will end up in the Gallery… eventually. Along with the backlog of other images that need uploading. Ahem.
Anyway… it was a lovely four-day weekend-ish thing, and while I’m glad to be back in the land of real showers and convenient technology, I will always sort of miss those lazy days next to the beach.
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Feed on Feeds
I’ve been (secretly) using this for a few weeks now, but since a new version just came out I figured I’d make some noise about it.
Feed on Feeds version 0.1.6 is available. Yay!
(Oh. What is it? It’s an RSS feed aggregator that lives on your webserver so you can access and keep track of your feed reads from anywhere, instead of being tied to a desktop-side aggregator that you can only check from a specific computer.)
(Oh. What is an RSS feed? It’s the syndication format a growing number of websites, and especially “blogging” systems, use to expose their collected entry data in a machine-readable way for external systems like an aggregator to pick up.)
(Oh. What is an aggregator? It’s software designed to automatically grab RSS feeds so you can easily keep track of what’s been updated on each of the couple dozen or so journals, blogs, thingies and news sites you try to visit regularly. Without having to actually, you know, visit them… unless they have new entries that interest you, which you’ll learn about because your aggregator software will have pulled the RSS feed for you.)
(Oh. I’m oversimplifying this, or not using the most precise jargon? Then you already know everything about this stuff, so why have you been reading this far? Sheesh.)
(Oh.)
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The Film Crew Online
Well what do you know? Me, I now know that former Best Brains Mike, Kevin and Bill have a new website involvement called The Film Crew Online. They had a few choice (funny) things to say about The Day After Tomorrow…
Meanwhile (and there’s a boatload of meanwhiles in this movie) Dr. Hall’s brain-jock son is heading for New York, which we know from the ads is gonna take it right up the Battery, so he’s in danger and it will be up to Quaid and his team of rugged, highly inaccurate weather forecasters to save him, and if they have time, the rest of the survivors.
As young Sam Hall, Jake Gyllenhall bolsters his reputation as the guy you get when Toby McGuire’s busy.
Snarky, movie-bashing fun for everyone! (Still, I hate to say it but it’s not quite as funny as the In Fifteen Minutes riff. Ah well.)