March 2006 Archives
A good analogy:
"If you have a field of grass and you walk on it, you compress the grass and it bends down over the night, and in a few days, it springs back up and is OK again. But if you keep doing that over and over, you wear a path in it. And that's kind of what happens with hearing loss."
Not sure if these Google videos work for dial-up users. This one features Chris Bliss and three balls.
Mac17:~ cashel$ drutil info
Vendor Product Rev
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-106D A612
Interconnect: ATAPI
SupportLevel: Apple Shipping
Cache: 2000k
CD-Write: -R, -RW, BUFE, CDText, Test, IndexPts, ISRC
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW, BUFE, Test
Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Lowdown is a MovableType plugin that simplifies text, converting "high characters" like curly quotes to low characters and also strips out html. I've been trying to get the html to not show in the recent comments section on the main page. The MTGlobalComments plugin I use does not properly process the remove_html="0" setting. But now I can use a lowdown="0" setting and all html is stripped out.
Not only does it strip out the html, but now the right side of mac5 will not get broken in IE when a truncated link tag is displayed... because now it doesn't display.
A digital sketch I worked up to send to our ANSI standards expert asking about the potential problem we could have when people write below the date line on a check. Has to do with check imaging. He says we're ok. Nice handwriting, huh?
Just released. Starts off in a colorful elevation mode. Infrared looks more like the red planet than visible. Tried to zoom in and see the rovers. Couldn't.
See the links at top for articles and other information.
Kathy, Kelly, Claire, and I visited Danny at Spring Hill for Family Weekend 2005. It was held this Spring instead of last Fall because of Katrina. We arrived late Thursday evening. Danny had a paper to write, and then had classes all the next morning, so we left him alone. The four of us decided to go find a beach Friday morning, and we followed signs to Dauphin Island.
This barrier island guards the west side of Mobile Bay. There is a fort and sea lab on the east end, a village and golf course in the middle, and then a long stretch of stilt houses on the west end. We drove as far as we could on the west, but the roads were partially washed away from Katrina, so we decided to just stop there and visit the beach and ocean.
Several of the stilt houses were damaged, and many were being repaired. It became apparent that houses nearest the beach were simply gone, with nothing more than a pylon or two and a recently capped sewer line indicating the sand was someone's property. There were no lawns, bushes, or landscaping to be seen. Katrina's storm surge had washed away everything and left six inches to a foot of sand covering driveways, patios, carports, and side roads. Upon closer inspection you could find entire carports and side roads broken like peanut brittle under the sand.
The center of the island seemed to have been spared because the village and woods are shielded by a giant sand dune. Several people were playing golf.
We decided that with the village, bike paths, golf, fort, sea lab, and beaches, this might be a good place for a vacation. It is 35 minutes from Mobile, allowing for a quick trip into town, much like going into Savannah from Tybee.
Flickr is a site that allows you to store and share photos. It was acquired by Yahoo. You can create multiple albums. There is a neat way to create a "Flickr Badge" to put on another website that leads to one of your photo albums:
Borrowed without permission from Scot Hacker:
Been a long time since your last quantum physics class? Lost touch with the essential weirdness of the double-slit experiment? Amazingly clear and enjoyable explanatory video, now visible inline thanks to the new "Put on site" feature at Google Video.
Thanks Oliver
