| CTP's RECURSIVEirony |
| Saturday, January 24, 2004 |
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CNN.com - Germany mourns Helmut Newton - Jan. 24, 2004 Helmut Newton One of the greats, one of my favorites, one of my inspirators, died yesterday at age 83. Posted at 9:51 PM |
| Friday, January 23, 2004 |
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excorporation.com now this is getting kinda recursive...sorta. I just set up my other blog, excorporation.com. It's not at that URL yet, but will be soon. In the meantime, click the link. Posted at 4:27 PM |
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Captain Kangaroo Dies Bob Keeshan, Captain Kangaroo, Dies at 76 Keeshan died of a long illness, his family said in a statement. Keeshan's "Captain Kangaroo'' debuted on CBS television in 1955 and ran for 30 years before moving to public television for six more. The program was wildly popular among children and won six Emmy Awards, three Gabriels and three Peabody Awards. Posted at 12:00 PM |
| Thursday, January 22, 2004 |
  Did he finally do it???? The project CTP has been gabbing about for years now??? I sure did :) I now have a computer in the kitchen, on the internet wirelessly, with a custom Filemaker Pro recipe database to boot. How'd I do it? A P100 laptop, a stick of RAM, a $30 wireless dongle, Win98, some aluminum bar from OSH, and a wee bit of time. I just installed it 30 minutes ago - we'll let you know how it works out. update - I still need to build the power supply into the cabinet, properly mount the 802.11 doohickey, and secure the screen to the door...for those who wondered :) update 2 - now with photoshoppy goodness applied to that dark second photo! Posted at 11:06 PM |
 Oh dear me...turn me loose with my camera and look what I find. Kobe, as tempting as that sounds, I'll pass. Although Kobe's favorite appears to be a fair bit more legal than R. Kelly's favorite. :-) Posted at 7:50 PM |
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Gosh, that's some funny shit Very much an oldie, but very very much a goodie. update - sorry for no linkage here earlier. all for the want of an equal sign :( Posted at 1:54 PM |
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tee hee hee Holy moly - Jocelyn Elders in CTP's RI twice in one day?? wow Posted at 1:44 PM |
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eXile #176 - Feature Story - Rush the Junkie: Count the Lies! Pretty good reading about drugs, power, money, and who gets to freely enjoy all three... Like most American arguments, it comes down to who can afford the best lawyers. And Rush has already hired one of the best in Florida. So by the time his case hits the courts, we’ll all be sobbing for Rush and his addiction. But somebody should ask Rush a question: if addiction is real, then how come we have sent millions of Americans to hellish prisons for it? Isn’t that kind of like sending diabetics to prison for trying to get insulin? We need to go back and check Rush’s record for signs of sympathy for the helpless addicts who found themselves in his present predicament. And durned if we don’t come across a clear, simple declaration of Rush’s views: “Too many whites are getting away with drug use. The answer is to…find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river.” He’s white all right. He’s been getting away with it. But don’t warm up the riverboat just yet, because Rush isn’t going anywhere. If you really think he’s ever going to see the inside of a prison cell, you’re suffering from America’s most widespread addiction: slurping up the self-serving lies their masters tell them. Posted at 11:34 AM |
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If she (Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders) wants to legalize drugs, send the people who want to do drugs to London and Zurich, and let's be rid of them. -- Rush Limbaugh show, Dec 9, 1993 I haven't heard, did he go to London or Zurich? Posted at 10:54 AM |
| Wednesday, January 21, 2004 |
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BLM sets desert use standards based on Burning Man 'nuf said. Posted at 5:24 PM |
| Tuesday, January 20, 2004 |
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Diesel Fuel Screen Printing Wow. Black on white t-shirts, $3.50 each. Stickers, 250 for $20. These guys appear to rock...that is if you need such things. Posted at 11:54 PM |
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btw - for some great robotics programming on TV, check out Scientific American Frontiers on PBS Posted at 10:32 AM |
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Robot Rivals Oh, god, why do I bother? I guess becuase there's no real choice. What am I muttering about? "Robotics" shows on TV. The whole battling robots thing has the world thinking that's what robots are, where those are actually more like R/C cars with added functions and tougher bodies. So then I sit down to watch Robot Rivals on DIY the other night, and I happen to catch the egg retriever episode. I don't know...have I been at this too long? Can I not just sit and take it in and chill...well, no I can't. I'm watching these engineering students from Clemson and Utah building this stuff, and I'm watching what they are building on a 19" TV well after the fact, and I can plainly see from here that THEIR SHIT WON'T WORK!!! WTF!?!?! This is the future braintrust of mechanical enginnering in the US? I do not think so. Or at least I hope not. Jeezus! Then when something doesn't work (for the very reason I was just shouting at my TV screen) they go do a redesign...and THEY DO IT WRONG AGAIN!!!! Criminey sakes...it was painful. It was probably more painful for Stacy who had to do her homework with me yelling at the TV such choice things as..."God dammit, what the hell are they gonna do it that way for?", and "WHAT?!?! an 8th grader would know that won't work before even building it!!!!" (especially if I was the 8th grader)(which I was probably acting like yelling obscenities at the TV LOL :) Anyway, I guess I'm ranting now...all I want is some decent robotics programming on TV...there is some, but a lot of it is really painful to watch. Is this too much to ask? BTW - yes, I will keep watching robot rivals...there are a lot of episodes, and maybe I caught the worst one...I sure hope so. Posted at 10:27 AM |
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