Ben is at my wed/thurs client. Justin is one of the people we support there.
Biehl is my boss.
Ben: justin just stopped by and asked for a mouse padThe ashtrays in front of the building I’m in on Wed/Thurs in downtown DC are no where to be seen today.
This is troubling - they only remove them in expectation of ‘something going down’.
Anyone have any word on any planned protests this morning in DC of an abnormal magnitude? Searching around is a trap because there are protests somewhere in DC nearly every day.
Yesterday I saw roughly 60 people picketting some building on Vermont Ave… all had posterboards on sticks saying something about healthcare and some were playing the bongo’s, because that’s what healthcare is all about.
The AP (on a few of the floors in the aforementioned downtown DC office building) has had foreign reporters in front of the building delivering ENG (Electronic News Gathering) head-shot reports with nice K St. backdrops every day for the past few months. Today a reporter I did not recognize appeared to be stopping willing passer-by’s to get man-on-the-street questions answered. You wouldn’t (ok you probably would) believe the nut-jobs stopping and trying to get in line to voice their opinion, people purposely standing in-frame behind the reporter, people walking by throwing / peace signs (ok it’s really brittish semaphor for ND, Nuclear Disarmament - hush up Stephen King fans) or just being silly.
What a show.
I just dropped a paycheck on a new digital camera + bag + 128MB memmory stick + gamepad.
Ok, the gamepad is for playing snes on my laptop and was cheap but I bought it at the same time at the same place.
Anyway, here are two pictures that I got today playing with f-stops and the flash. The darts one shows the limitations of a flash placed behind the lense but otherwise they came out ok.
Yes, I will be dragging this to every party and getting candid shots. The memmory stick, I just learned, holds 51 pictures at extremely high quality and approximately 900 at 640×480. Prepare to have your picture taken drunkasses.
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Watching Mister Rogers was at one point in time the highlight of my day. I thought everyone came home, changed into their house slippers and put on a sweater. I thought anyone could just go up to a crayon factory or a firehouse and ‘ask for a tour’. I thought the mailman was wierd.
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It error’s like hell in the console - have to tweak that a bit…
First time I’ve ever done any actual editing of open source source code (or real code at all for that matter)…
Ok ok you got me, it wasn’t editing, it was just commenting lines out that looked like they were the culprits for shit I didn’t like. Namely the toolbars that gaim draws in the chat screen.
As if we all clickety-clack away typing in what we want to say to someone, then reach for the mouse and click “send”… I know what ctrl-b does, I know what ctrl-i does, I know what escape does…
Now to clean up the button state updates it’s trying to process every time i hit a letter key.
What kind of company would use ‘mal’, meaning bad or badly in their name? Mal, found in words like malformation, maladjusted, dismal, malady, malcontent, malfeasance, and maleficent does not really bring to mind the warmest feelings.
Just looking at this old Maltron keyboard I just snagged from the trash heap at a client’s makes my hands hurt! I can’t wait to plug it in and try it out in my cube.
I was out in front of a client’s office building on K street today having a cigarette…
Up pulls a bike messenger.
Messengers generally lock their bikes against poles and grates in front of the building. Said polls and grates are currently under a few feet of snow.
What was the replacement security device implemented by this particular bike messenger?
A pile of fake poop on the seat!
Best.
Security.
Ever.
Judging books by their covers is often the only effective way to find new authors - Jim Munroe’s Everyone in Silico is no expection.
I picked up a copy of the book at Border’s the other day and highly recommend it - I also think I’ve found a publishing company to start buying random books from: four walls eight windows - check out their current offerings.
Munroe has an interesting website called No Media Kings. Especially interesting is that he invoiced companies that recieved product placement in the novel.
Oh, and his writing isn’t bad either.
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well this sucks. From CNN:
NASA officials said they last had contact with the shuttle at about 9 a.m. EST, and it had been expected to touch down at about 9:16 a.m. EST.
The shuttle was at 200,700 feet, traveling at 12,500 mph, when contact was lost.
The space shuttle is old technology but every replacement has had it’s budget cut fyi.
I was only six but I swear I remember it, and for the next few years today was an event in schools.