… even if it’s called Phun. A 2-D physics simulator, available on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Be sure to watch the video.
Oh, this looks like fun
May 13th, 2008I need this
May 10th, 2008So much, I should probably figure out how to make this post sticky. Or maybe I should just add the link to my blogroll.
In any case, here are Links and Resources for the Chronically Disorganized.
Story time
May 10th, 2008The Big Guy points to a time-travel story in Wiki format. That puts me in mind of this fantasy story in blog format.
As a related aside, here’s a short film on a similar subject.
Precipitous local cooling
May 2nd, 2008I personally believe that “global warming” is hystrionics, and likely politically motivated. I also realize that the plural of anecdote is not “data” (more people should be aware of that, in my opinion).
However, anecdata can be fun. Wednesday, the temperature here in Denver reached 81. Yesterday, we had the following visible from my office:
Those were taken about 8:20am. The snow kept falling until noon, in my area. Today, the mountains are again snow-covered, but the snow here has gone, except on north-facing slopes where it’s been shaded.
Springtime in the Rockies means temperature swingtime in the Rockies, I guess. This really isn’t that unexpected; the average data of last frost in Denver is May 20th.
I told you so
April 28th, 2008Fifteen months and $3000. But then, most of the stolen documents have been recovered.
I wrote about this a year ago.
The weather has been nice this week
April 26th, 2008So I was planning to do some garden work today. I’ve got flower beds that need weeding and watering, my lawn needs edging and watering, and there are too many dandelions coming up.
I think I’ll postpone all that, though … it’s snowing.
ANZAC Day
April 25th, 2008I don’t know how long this link will be good (it looks like the link will be for the entire trip … ANZAC Day is Day 5 of the trip), but we have Colorado representation Down Under for ANZAC Day.
Here’s a song that was written about it – Eric Bogle’s The Band Played Waltzing Mathilda.
Global Warming?
April 25th, 2008
What global warming?
Note: Both of these photos come from a column written by Jack Ganssle for Embedded Systems Design magazine on programmers being insufficiently paranoid about how their code handles errors.
This is wrong.
April 25th, 2008Not merely wrong, but horribly wrong. It’s one of those “What made them think this is a good idea?” things.
Behold – Manterns.
An accident? Not as far as I’m concerned
April 24th, 2008Mexican embassy official steals Blackberries during meeting with President Bush.
Have we at least declared the spy persona non grata? Do we know that we got them all back, and that we got the right ones back? If I were going to do something like this, I’d make sure I had purchased some off of Ebay in advance. Give those back if I were stopped, and try to make it out with the others.
Then again, how long does it take to unload a Blackberry? Do they have easily-removable memory cards? I don’t know – my cellphone was neither newly-introduced nor top-of-the-line when I got it about 3 years ago.