• Hot Off The Presses

    NYT Googled Again

    Google’s at it again… Search is Number Two Online Activity – Email is Number One; “Heck, Yeah,” Say Google Founders MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 1, 2004 UTC – Amidst rampant media speculation, Google Inc. today announced it is testing a preview release of Gmail – a free search-based webmail service with a storage capacity of up to eight billion bits of information, the equivalent of 500,000 pages of email. Per user. The New York Times has it, so it must be true… heck, yeah! Check that dateline, NYT?

  • Parish: Holy Moly (ECUSA)

    Praying for Whirled Peas

    Tonight there was a Taize’ service at Holy Moly, preceded by a simple potluck dinner that included soup, bread, and salads. I contributed an Asian salad thingy that turned out pretty well, and I’ll forget what I did (and what I could do better for the next time) if I don’t get it down. I took it in a large covered salad bowl, which worked out great for mixing, transporting AND serving.

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Blogon Poetry Slam!

    In honor of the last day of March, it’s time for a little poetry. This seems to scan if sung to The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” o franken factor on the internet !pleh !pleh, airborne adventure wales, tarkett tap tight, porque? westminster abbey photo newton s tomb, it snew tricky woo… tricky woo… rasa, computers picture room full of monkeys newton s first law and marble maze, saltwaterchimp. newton law falling apple animated gif bucky katt, spork bucky katt tricky woo, bucky katt monkeys? harris-tarkett tap tight, o franken harris-tarkett tap tight, o franken show me yours and…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Broadcast Views

    I’ve enjoyed listening to Air America/Al Franken et. al. today… that is, when I can pull in a decent signal on my crappy AM radio upstairs, or when the streaming audio happens to be working, but for the most part it’s been fun listening to it (especially today, when they’ve had some high-powered guests lined up). Most of the callers sound extremely surprised to find themselves on the air (and sound like they’re talk-radio call-in newbies). They’re not quite up to the calibre of, say, callers to :NPR’s “Wait, Wait! Don’t Tell Me.” Maybe it’ll improve. On a quick survey,…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Radio, Radio

    Well, the link is live at AirAmericaRadio.Com, but they’re apparently operating under radio silence. However, it requires RealPlayer (rats!1) and of course it’s nagging me to update my version of same. Ugh. And it’s NOT going to be the default player for anything. So now after updating my apparently totally useless former version of Real Player, I can hear commercials, but no talk once they’re finished. This is probably not a good sign. Somebody’s head will be rolling merrily along soon. Edited to add:It seems to be working now. Okay. Maybe I’ll listen now and then at work… but I’ll…