I’d said I was going to upload these a while ago. Here are the GPS waypoints for Wasem’s fruit farm in both LOC file and GPX file formats.
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Monthly Archives: September 2005
iTunes, therefore…
Snagged off a really good cartoonist, it’s….
The iTunes meme.
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Tagged Quizzes
Hovering information
There’s this theory of website organization that I half-jokingly call the “Mayan Pyramid Scheme.” The basic idea is that the broadest, most general information is the base of the pyramid. Stacked on top of that is a narrower step of information, followed by something more specific, and so on until you reach a nice tiny chunk of extremely specific info telling you exactly what you want.
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Tagged Personal Blather
Yet more fun toys
An interesting profile of the self-proclaimed “Armani of bulletproof clothing”…
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/09/22/bulletproof/
…also gives some interesting info on the state of the art in protective cloth technology.
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Nifty Toy!
Very keen, after doing all that stuff about audio yesterday, to happen across a review of this turntable. I’ve been thinking for a while about getting an inexpensive record player to transfer some of my old vinyl into something more car-playable.
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New Category New Content
I mentioned that I’m experimenting with the whole podcasting craze for work. If you want to listen to what I’ve got going so far, you can either click the new podcast feed link over there on the right, or use this link here:
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Tagged Audio
New F∃tures
So yeah. Podcasting. The whole personal radio show thing… I think it’s a neat idea, in most cases. Sturgeon’s Law applies, of course, especially to anything I happen to produce.
Anyway, the reason I bring it up is that we’re looking at doing internal podcasts of some of the medical lectures here. Which means I get to experiment and geek out a bit, learning how things are done. Which means that you get to benefit from my mistakes, if you’re trying to do the same thing.
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Collosal “Huh?”
Ok. Automatic translations of foreign languages still have a long way to go before they can handle online comics.
On the other hand, there’s something kind of cool about the phrase “Nintendo Co. is the invincible fist in underwater!”
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I can go ANYWHERE!
You Are A: Monkey!
Monkeys are intelligent and agile, well-adapted for jungle life as they swing happily from tree to tree. As a monkey, you are a social animal who eats a wide range of food, is quick to learn new things and loves to climb. A monkey’s tiny primate features are irresistable, as is his gregarious personality!
You were almost a: Puppy or a Bear Cub
You are least like a: Duckling or a ChipmunkDiscover What Cute Animal You Are!
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Possibly marketable idea…
Caffeinated Jell-o!
Someone asked, pre-meeting at work, if they should make another pot of coffee. The reply, “There’s always room for more coffee.” triggered the obvious slogan linkage.
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