This guy walked a fine line with his fianceé and lived to talk about it. [via Jim]
April 2003 Archives
Out at lunch today, we saw a Ford Explorer from Minnesota that was recently vandalized. Keyed into the side of the car in 12-inch high letters was "YOURCARHOGGAS." It took us a bit to figure it out, but once we did, I wanted to cut some trees down. It amazes me how idiotic some people can be. At least some kids kept it clean, though still annoying, this past Earth Day.
Is it me, or has Christina Aguilera changed her image? Take a look at the series of photos, and let me know what you think.
One jury thought a man didn't deserve any compensation for a burger that actually tasted like shit. How often to you taste bad food, and offer it to your friends to try, saying, "This tastes like shit." This time the guy actually mean it.
On a similar note, a man was arrested and sentenced to three days in jail for refusing to serve his jury duty, offering explicit recordings on the city clerks voice mail. I am not so sure I would've liked this guy on my jury either. [both via Jim]
After suffering through the painful Collateral Damage HBO showed Sweet, a short film about a guy who struggles through some different relationships. It made me laugh out loud. (Which was desperately needed after 'Ahh-nold'.) Unfortunately I caught the last showing this month. Catch it if you can.
It's a bit overwhelming to think that this picture is really 17 million years old. Although compiled in 1999 and 2000, the light from the stars traveled 17 million light-years to get to Earth. Because light travels at light speed (obviously), that means it took 17 million years to get here. For all we know, aliens could be destroying right now, and we wouldn't find out for another 17 million years.
So, Madonna strikes first and fakes out everyone with bogus songs. But, a hacker strikes back, and defaces madonna.com. But the best part is the proposal to hottie Morgan.
Last week, Dave Winer posted about his hatred of CSS. In reply, both Zeldman and Mark commented that they had had enough of Dave's whining. Then Sam made a comment and Dave exploded.
I was waiting for this to happen. First I saw Zeldman's post, then Mark's, and I couldn't believe Dave wasn't retorting on his site. But Kottke directed me to Sam's carnage of a post. I always thought Winer was a bit of a whiner know-it-all-and-I-don't-hesitate-to-tell-you-I-told-you-so kind of a guy. I hesitantly put his site on my blogroll, always thinking that I could take it off later. Well, now I can, and have good reason too.
Update, 3:39 PM: Mark has added value (or lack thereof) of being flamed by Dave. It is known as The Winer Number.
2nd Update, 11:13 PM: Bryan Bell got stabbed by the vicious Dave.
Ever play Mousetrap? Or heard of Rube Golberg? Then, Check out this ad from Honda. Even if you haven't heard of them, and if you have two minutes, it's well worth it. [via MeFi]
There's shorthand for chatting/text messaging, and then there's shorthand for weather forecasts. Example: FCST FOCUS ON PCPN CHCS (Hover with your mouse to view what it really means.)
I discovered that Win/IE 6.0 handles font size a bit differently depending on which standard you design to. Declaring a "small" font size in my style sheet ended up producing rather large text when viewed as HTML 4.01 transitional. But, after making the easy transition to XHTML 1.0 transitional, everything worked out just fine. It's interesting to note that Mozilla handled everything fine the first time around. But Mozilla doesn't allow/show the handy tools for text formatting (bold, italic, hyperlink) in Blogger PRO and Movable Type. Frustrating!
The hardest thing to do is to on a day like today is to come back to work after spending time on the terrace on "breakout day." Especially when it's going to get crappy for a while. Spring is so cool here, I hate to see it go away.
Entranced as I was in Knight Rider as a kid (I had the snap together model kit), I don't know if this is going to be a good idea.
I just was out in the beautiful weather dropping plans off at another office. On the return trip, I encountered some delay due to construction, pedestrians, and a train all crossing in the same place. Overall, maybe about five minutes total. Not a big deal-especially on such a nice day. While waiting in the queue, both the car in front of and behind me, made a u-turn to avoid the delay. Over a curb, into oncoming 45 mile per hour traffic. Where has the patience gone?
Two gems from The Morning News giving us an idea of what's hot and what's not. First, what's not: Geraldo gets more than he bargained for when troops shake hands. Reminds me of Brodie's famous handshake in Mallrats. What's hot is a bit if pop culture crossing onto itself. LucJam publishes a weekly list that tracks Billboard's Hot 100 and the brand references mentioned in each song.
Looks like someone didn't tell mother nature about daylight savings:
Now...
Visibilities across much of south central and southeast Wisconsin Will be down to 1/2 to 1 mile in snow and blowing snow for most of the morning. Some areas of lower visibilities down to 1/4 mile will be found near the Lake Michigan shoreline. Wind whipped snow from Easterly gusts around 35 mph will make traveling difficult. Most areas have received one to two inches of snow thus far. Temperatures will hover near 30 with wind chill readings in the lower teens.
from National Weather Service
Pics @ RobbyB.com is launched with a new design and engine under the hood. Look for the same improvements here as I move away from Blogger.
A very cool way to see photos taken by embedded photo journalists in Iraq.
Peter Murphy's got a cool thing going with the Panoramic VR blog. (Warning: Need Quicktime to view.)
Shad-Rapp: "The greatest musical hunting/fishing comedy band of all time." (According to them.)
I can't really see how this confusion is possible. [via Mark]