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30 Mar 2001
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Robot Sumo Wrestling |
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A smaller, friendlier version of Battlebots or Robotwars is Robot
Sumo Wrestling. via Wired
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Patented Canola Seeds |
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A genetically modified seed blows on to a farmer's land and he doesn't destroy
the canola that grows from it. Who
should sue who? The biotech company that created the seed or the farmer for
crop contamination? Or should we just call it even? How does a company protect
it's genetically modified seeds from scattering in the wind? Ha ha, what about
specially formulated water needed to irrigate the crops? Can you imagine this
"special" water making it into our water table and all the two headed
babies that would result? On one hand, I think some technology should be
protected so there is more incentive to innovate; on the other hand, I feel
like seeds falling off your truck is just tough luck. via Slashdot
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25 Mar 2001
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Farmer's Market and LACMA Pictures |
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Here are some pictures that I took
with my Casio Wrist Camera today.
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Soul Kebab |
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Just came back from a Soul Kebab at Jen's place. Shauna and I performed "Baby
One More Time" by Britney Spears a la Travis. Me on guitar and vocals and
Shauna doing the bass line and harmonies. It's way too much fun. I wanna have
a Soul Kebab at my place. You're all invited. The catch with Soul Kebab is everyone
has to perform something. Read a poem, play a song, perform a magic trick,
act, juggle...
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thevooner.com |
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thevooner.com now points to the High Gear
page!
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23 Mar 2001
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The Hungry Site |
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Help feed a hungry, laid-off dot-commer at The
Hungry Site. via Salon's
Inbox
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Borneo Pictures |
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Finally! I got off my lazy ass and posted up pages for my
trip to Borneo. A backpacking trip through Malaysian Borneo is highly recommended.
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22 Mar 2001
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Salon's Oscar Picks |
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I'm in agreement with most of the predictions
made in Salon about the Oscars, except that cobbled-together-mess Gladiator
better not win Best Picture.
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20 Mar 2001
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Blink. Blink. Blink. |
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The cursed blinking 12:00. Here's a fun
article about how the race for newer, better, faster has lead to technological
tyranny. "There's a fundamental conflict between the seller and the buyer
of software. The buyer wants to make it work. The seller wants to make it half-work
and improve it next year." via Slashdot
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16 Mar 2001
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Park Wars |
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Star Wars/South Park fans must check out Park
Wars! via Slashdot
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Its superficial lower whole number is sentendoli |
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Greggman pointed out this cool
link that uses altavista's babelfish
to do successive translations from English into other languages and back again.
I guess there's still some work to be done on translation software...
Original English Text:
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
Translated to French:
Toute Votre Base Sont Appartiennent À Nous
Translated back to English:
All Your Base Are Belong To Us
Translated to German:
Ihre Ganze Unterseite Sind Gehören Uns
Translated back to English:
Their whole lower surface are hearing us
Translated to Italian:
Il loro intradosso intero sta sentendoli
Translated back to English:
Their entire lower surface is sentendoli
Translated to Portuguese:
Sua superfície mais baixa inteira é sentendoli
Translated back to English:
Its surface lower entire is sentendoli
Translated to Spanish:
Su entero más bajo superficial es sentendoli
Translated back to English:
Its superficial lower whole number is sentendoli
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10 Mar 2001
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DWP: It gets better... |
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Well, I called DWP a couple days ago to make sure my power wasn't turned off.
There was no record of a request for transfer. So I gave her my information
again. Of course, the woman on the end of the line assured me that everything
was taken care of. That this was absolutely, positively the last time
I'd have to deal with transfering the bill over to my name.
Yesterday, I get another notice. My power is to be shut off tomorrow...
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07 Mar 2001
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DWP sucks! |
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Warning: Rant follows.
DWP must be run by a bunch of morons. Can I sign up with someone else to provide
me with power?
I call to switch the power bill to my name at the beginning of February. Guy
says, "Done deal." (At the time, we didn't have separate meters so
this is impossible, but I didn't know that...)
Mid-February, I get a call from the apartment manager's office saying to switch
the power bill to my name. What the hell?
I call up DWP. They can't find any record of my apartment in their system.
"Your apartment doesn't exist." Uh-huh. So I call the manager and
tell them there's a problem with the DWP records. The manager says, "No.
They're lazy. Call them again and tell them to look harder. We put in the meters
a couple days ago."
I call up DWP for the third time and get a guy who says my apartment isn't
in their system. "Well, look harder. Call your supervisor. Do something."
After a while, he figures it out, "Oh. It's here in the second system."
"Great," I say. "Switch me over, baby!"
"Can't do it. I can't access that system." Like it's something
special. After a lot of hot air about what to do next, he says, "Don't
worry, I'll put in a comment on this order, so that once it does switch
to our main system, it'll be put in your name. Case closed."
I was skeptical. I asked him, "Are you sure?" Of course he was. After
all, the conversation was being recorded for quality assurance purposes. "Are
you sure?" I asked again. "I don't want to have to call back again
when they end up shutting off my power because this order doesn't go through."
He assures me that's the last I'll ever hear of it.
I get a letter today from DWP. Tomorrow they shut off my power.
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Disney Grand Californian |
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I went to the happiest place on earth today to pick up my friend, theVooner,
who was spending some quality time with his sister and nephew at that new Disney
Californian Theme Park (what is it called?). My sister and I got to the Grand
Californian Hotel early and had a bite to eat and I realized that Disneyland
must the cause of the state emergency energy crisis. Our half of the 10,000+
square foot restaurant was empty except for us two and no less than 100 lamps
were lighting our area.
To show that Disney does everything in grand style, my Turkey sandwich
had what must have been an entire Turkey and half a pig (in the form of bacon,
yum) of meat. Steve Tyler'd have a hard time getting his mouth around that sucker.
I felt like puking three-quarters of the way through. Disney: doing their part
to keep America obese.
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DSL Rules! |
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After a long install process with Covad, Pac Bell and Speakeasy, I've got DSL!
It only took Pac Bell two times to get the line right... And I'm using my desktop
computer which doesn't need to access the hard drive for ten seconds every time
I pull down a menu or click the mouse (which is what happens with my crappy laptop).
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02 Mar 2001
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Freaky Survivor Episode |
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Anyone see last night's Survivor where the guy "got a lungful of smoke"
and passed out into the fire, burning his hands and face? Given all the talk
about the first Survivor being staged, I'm willing to bet the producers hired
an aborigine with a blowpipe to wait until someone was hunched over a fire...
Of course, I'm kidding. Kind of. Maybe.
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Roni Size/Reprazent/Rage Against The Machine |
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If you're into Drum & Bass, then you've got to check out Roni Size/Reprazent's
newest, "In The M0de". Addictive. Zack De La Rocha, from Rage Against
The Machine, guests on "Centre of the Storm". Track #14. Arg! 14 is
a bad number...
Speaking of Rage, I'm also listening to their newest album, "Renegades",
which has a studio and a live version (with Cypress Hill) of Cypress Hill's
"How I Could Just Kill A Man". No! The live version is track #14...
"HERE IS SOMETHING YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND..."
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