Tue May 25 1999 07:12:
Enjoy The Hubble Constant,
the site presenting the findings of the Hubble Space Telescope to
you, the taxpayer. Much like that other site whose URL I can't find
which presents all the pictures the HST takes, but more technical.
Tue May 25 1999 08:39:
Alternating periods of sunshine and shadow. Such is the rule for
weather here in LA. I believe there is a city ordinance requiring
it.
I need to get back on the LACMA track, as I just felt myself wanting
a mail automaton to handle NYCB for me. Yes, I'm so lazy that I
can't even be bothered to fire up a Web browser to put up a notebook
entry.
Tue May 25 1999 08:43:
Also, I'd like to be able to use a real text editor to write
these entries in.
Tue May 25 1999 12:07:
I'm starting to have to delete press releases that people are sending
to Segfault. Are we on some list of Linux sites for people to send their press
releases to? If so, cut it out.
Tue May 25 1999 12:51:
Hm, AIR wants the descendants of famous scientists and inventors to
go on stage at this year's Ig Nobels. I am a descendant of Eli Whitney,
and as such would probably qualify for the "Flaunt Your Genome"
event. The only problem is that I'd miss some of the first week of
class next quarter. And I'd have to pay for tickets.
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin, silly. Everybody knows that. More
people know that than know what a cotton gin is.
Tue May 25 1999 13:31:
If real life had a Wandering Monsters table, this would only show
up on a 00: A car being driven by old folks with both a "Victory
'96 Dole/Kemp" bumper sticker and
this rude bumper sticker.
That is my own GIMPy rendition of the bumper sticker in that graphic,
by the way.
Also, that bumper sticker is a form of parody bumper sticker that
I don't get. The form is an oval with two or three letters (or, in
this case, glyphs) inside it. I have a "LNX" sticker that I got
at LinuxWorld Expo, and there are millions of others I have seen on
other people's cars. They are starting to outnumber even those
damn fish. But I don't know what all these bumper stickers are
parodying. Help me Spock! And enjoy my feeble mouse-drawing talents.
Tue May 25 1999 13:34:
Here are some old graphics I did in the GIMP,
predating even the alleged "first GIMP graphic" I stuffed into NYCB
a while ago. There are three, in JPG and PNG format. My Netscape
4 won't read PNG. What's up with that, homey?
Tue May 25 1999 13:40:
Adam was in the Engineering Week talent show today, and he didn't
tell me about it. So I missed him. Not that I haven't seen him
play before, but I would prefer the universe in which he had told me
about it to the universe which I inhabit.
Tue May 25 1999 14:21:
OK, Josh says that those bumper stickers are take-offs on the bumper
stickers you put on your car if you live in Europe. I feel like an
idiot {standing in line waiting for Miss Perfect da da da da da da da da, for not having known that}.
Tue May 25 1999 21:54:
Hoo boy. The next year of my life is going to be a living hell. I
wrote a big long explanation of it, which I will not post here, but
the short version is that when this quarter ends, the hell will begin.
The hell involves no non-working vacation, hellish summer school, no money, and four
classes every quarter, even the ones in which I take the heavy CS
classes like compiler construction and digital system design.
The payoff is that I will actually graduate in four years flat,
instead of four years and one quarter. This will make me feel a lot
better, and will have financial benefits as well.
Also, if for scheduling reasons (or because I just snap) I can't
make it in four years after all, the hellish summer school I am about to undergo will allow
me to take three classes every quarter instead of four. This means
two easy quarters and two quarters of moderate difficulty. This also
means more time to work. Which is a nice safety net to fall back on.
Living hell... living hell...
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