Today they examined the brain of the cow that they thought had mad cow disease. It turns out it didn’t have it. Sven wondered if they returned the brain to the cow. I told him that probably not. Sven was sad. I think the cow was a dumbass for acting crazy when someone was looking.
We’ve joined Elana and my blogs together (what no honeymoon?), and Sven’s will soon follow. If you’re getting this via an RSS feed, check the URL. It should now point to
http://www.zen.org/rss.xml
If your aggregator cannot deal with redirects, the “real” URL is
http://www.zen.org/wp-rss2.php
but I like the rss.xml version better, since it makes it easier for us to change our blog software in the future should we choose to.
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There’s this funny show on SkyOne called Brainiac. It’s geek science. Soooo silly. Right now they’re doing something on mobile phones and gas stations. But the piece before this was, get this, filling a swimming pool with custard (from a powder, not homemade), and seeing if someone can walk on it. Seriously. Custard, apparently, is a non-Newtonian liquid, and as long as it’s not being impacted, it is a liquid. But when you impact it, it goes hard, and you can actually walk on it. Freaking great.
They call the show Brainiac: Science Abuse. Yep. It is. But I can’t stop watching it. And they keep blowing things up, which is fun to watch.
We’re going to try out doing a communal group weblog, where all of us can post in a stream-of-consciousness theme. Seems like a lot more fun than three people each standing alone in a corner scribbling quietly, and running across the room to see what someone else wrote.
My RSI is back. Right arm. Trackpad arm. So I don’t know when we’ll be able to do much online, since I just need to rest the damn arm. I have my wrist support on (I shouldn’t even be typing right now, with it on), and I found my old kick ass left handed ergonomic mouse. No, not one of those wussy “ergo” mouses. This one was prescribed by my doc 6 years ago. It’s sooooo nice. Fits hand properly. Perfit mouse, made by Contour Designs. If you have arm pain, get one. And use it right. and stop typing and go for a walk.
Well, we knew it years ago, but apparently, Ireland is the best place to live in the world.
Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Just not in the pub.
Here’s the big problem, as I see it, regarding Podcasts and OPML and all that…
there isn’t a SIMPLE page explaining it all in NORMAL human terms. I’ve been searching for what exactly OPML is, and how to do it, for about a half hour, and my eyes are crossing from all the tech terms. I think I got it now, but jeez….
Guys, if you want your software to get to the masses, YOU HAVE TO START MAKING IT ACCESSIBLE TO THE MASSES!!!!! We, the end lusers, have to understand simply what we’re doing. The fact that we still can’t get iPodderX to recognize our Podcast is just…dumb.
The funny thing is, I mentioned this almost 4 years ago at CFP in regards to encryption. Yeah, notice where the end user is with encryption right now….
Question: What’s the difference between the Vietnam War and the Iraq War?
Answer: George W. Bush had a plan to get out of the Vietnam War.
Linked from Slashdot, a great article on what is encryption?
Adam Curry put an audio comment I did for him into the DSC yesterday. Wheee 🙂 Meant to create our first podcast last night, but the fates were against us. Today, hopefully, since we don’t have anything pressing today. Other than grocery shopping. Urk.
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