• Home Improvement

    Snow Day

    We’re dragging out the cross-country ski stuff to get out and play in the snow today. No promises as to how long it’ll be, we’re getting a typically late start. I’m almost done with another England trip journal entry, just have a few more photos to add in at the end. Should be posted tonight. Ta-ra! We’re off to fall down a lot and get frustrated with having boards stuck on our feet!

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Did I Say That?

    I was scanning various websites the other day and ran across something that just struck me funny from a copyright lawyer that had done some work for Penthouse magazine and its’ sister publications: As an attorney for the Penthouse magazine empire in the mid 1990s, I launched a war against cyberspace dwellers who, without authorization, used photographic images of the Penthouse Pets and models on their web pages. There were literally thousands of web sites posting Penthouse-copyrighted images scanned from Penthouse magazine and its numerous sister publications. Finding Penthouse-owned pictures required some hands-on investigative work. Uh – okay, Counselor, thanks…

  • Clan: McTiVo

    Get Paid To Travel Around Destroying Stuff

    Whoa – Mythbusters is hiring! Note: A weekly salary commensurate with the position will be paid to the successful applicant during shoot periods. You mean… you get to do all that and get PAID, too? The only episode I’ve seen so far is the “Chicken Gun/Killer Washer” one, and already I’m hooked. Surely I know someone who could apply for this job. Wait… via Highlander fandom, I probably do.

  • Clan: McTiVo

    To Boldly Not Go?

    Well, this is a bit disappointing – according to an interview with BBC News World Edition, Patrick Stewart’s a bit of a “wet blanket” about space travel. (via ***Dave Does the Blog) He and others raise a valid point – “let’s solve the problems of this world first before venturing away from it” – but still it’s hard to hear this commentary coming from the man that inspired the newsgroup alt.sexy.bald.captains “I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilisations out on to other planets – even though…

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Doot De Doot De Doodle

    Hmm. Various free/cheap Web graphics programs. I think I might qualify for some of these under the “Photoshop makes me break out in hives” rubric. Last night? Why, yes, there was hairpulling and swearing involved with my last tussle with Photoshop. 😉

  • SABRE2th Tigress: Book 'em, Dano.

    Weather or Not

    From Chicago NBC Channel 5’s Weather page… Thursday: Winter Weather Advisory through tomorrow morning…Cloudy, breezy and cold this morning, light snow developing this afternoon, increasing to a steady snow this evening. Highs in the upper 20s. Winds E 15-25mph. Thursday night: Heavy snow tapers to light snow mixed with some freezing drizzle, windy and cold. Lows in the mid 20s. Friday: Storm totals between 4 to 8 inches by 8:00AM. More light snow expected through the day, windy and cold. Highs in the upper 20s. Saturday: Cloudy with light snow or flurries mainly in the morning, partial clearing in the…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Spiders and Bots and Crawlers, Oh My

    A look at my logs recently led me down a few investigative Web rambles last night and today – the kind where you start of at Google, click a few links, go back, click a few more links farther down and so on. Interesing and informative links found thus far – attention, my hubby, might have a little more tinkering around for you to do: Random and Irrelevant IMHO, the above site was actually specific and relevant. 😉 Helpfully provided by Random and Irrelevant: robots.txt not honored? And I think I need to cross-reference robots.txt abusers/ignorers against a few such…

  • The Never-Ending Bloga

    Style Vs. Substance

    Friday Feast #56: CSS, MT, Style Guides, TopStyle – Brainstorms and Raves- “Criminey, she’s at it again.” Yep, still toying with the idea of a 3 column layout. And cartooneys. More stuff to play with in my sandbox. Reminder: need figure out how to play in sandbox.