Thu Jun 08 2000 21:08: http://castor.exolab.org: Java object persistance with SQL dbs.

Sat Jun 10 2000 09:45: http://slovakia.sh.cvut.cz/c3t/: tank carnage type game

Sun Jun 11 2000 06:54:

Try Nathan Hale UML Beer. It's a beer.

Typical course of events:
PERSON purchases NATHAN HALE SPECIALTY BEERS BRAND NATHAN HALE UML BEER
PERSON opens NATHAN HALE SPECIALTY BEERS BRAND NATHAN HALE UML BEER
PERSON enjoys NATHAN HALE SPECIALTY BEERS BRAND NATHAN HALE UML BEER

Sun Jun 11 2000 06:58: "Rock 'n' Write" eraser neither rocks nor writes.
"The missile should blow things up!" "I was thinking of a more flowery missile..."

Sun Jun 11 2000 07:13:

For hundreds of years, mankind has looked to the sea. Now, the sea looks to man!

SEE! Beautiful maidens in the clutches of hideous cephalopods! (Oh yeah, the beautiful maidens are also hideous cephalopods)

HEAR! The embittered chirping of angry dolphins and kamikaze clicker shrimp!

SMELL! The brine and...fish of an undersea city!

Sun Jun 11 2000 07:15: Large rat density->violent rats
Large rats->violent rats
Violent rats!
Rat violence
Rat rat violence
Vio-rat!
Rat valence
varat
vio-rat!
viorat!
vio-rat!
rat of violence
Year of the Violent Rat

Sun Jun 11 2000 07:15: Drawn from nature
Underfed monkeys and violent rats

Sun Jun 11 2000 07:34: These whales are poisonous!

Sun Jun 11 2000 07:37: These whales are poisonous!

Durian vs. Bond:
"Another cup, Mr. Bond?"
"Damn you, Electron!"
"That's not my name!"
"It should be."

"What happened?"
"Looks like he couldn't handle the ACTION!
"The ACTION!
"Oh, I said that already."

Sun Jun 11 2000 07:39: Drawing description: 3 panels. (primary carnivore)

1. Whale with mouth wide open (huge), plankton coming in. Upper baleen visible
2. Whale closes mouth. Looks like it's smiling (though this is just mouth structure). Mouth still huge, like whale shark or ray, looks like part of stomach
3. Whale has filtered and swallowed. Normal size mouth. Looks even more like it's smiling.

I harbor seals
Top of the food chain, ma!

Sun Jun 11 2000 20:57: "In the future, lobsters will be even larger!" "Wow!"

Seriously, who would eat a lobster? They look like alien life forms. Would you eat an alien life form?

Sun Jun 11 2000 21:08: A source of protein and income.
"I'm the 'one in every five' who is farmed!"

Sun Jun 11 2000 21:17: tommy trilobite sez, "Extinction is forever!"

Sun Jun 11 2000 21:19: The Hall of Habitat

"My next song is about the failure of our elected officials to appreciate the connectivity of marine habitats when establishing marine regulatory policy."

There's a Budweiser can at the bottom of the Mariana Trench

Why do introduced species always win? You'd think they'd be at a huge disadvantage.

Sun Jun 11 2000 21:21: Next Generation Ecosystem Services

Sun Jun 11 2000 21:22: Pinipeds cousins of bears?

Fri Jun 16 2000 07:40: Submitting projects to the UCLA CS department in 11 easy steps:
Starring Adam Kaplan

1. Get a 3 1/2 floppy disk. (Adam holds it up)
2. Eat it. (Adam salts it while eating it)
3. Get a 3 1/4 floppy disk. (Adam holds it up, dotted line showing missing 1/4-inch
4. Write your name on the magnetic media ("Adam")
5. Write the hex code for your source and compiled program on the label. ("A1 40 0B 19 BA 3F A4 32 81 EB...")
6. Get a 400cm x 100cm x 75cm body bag (Adam strains to hold it up)
7. Kill a rabbit (Adam with rabbit in his sights)
8. Bury the disk in the rabbit's guts. (Adam performs the grisly deed)
9. Put the rabbit in the body bag (outline of rabbit)
10. Put the body bag in the TA's mailbox (Adam tries to push the huge body bag through the tiny mailbox slot. Others with their body bags look on.)
11. Start work on the next project. (Adam in front of a computer)

Fri Jun 16 2000 07:46: Cotton robot: "Once you defeat me, Mega Man, you nmay take my weapon! Hey, come back!"

The Norm McDonald shaggy dog story, as told to Adam:

OK, Norm McDonald is talking, and he has a thing where if he pauses for a long time, a stagehand will write the word he's supposed to say on a card. So he's talking about a movie, and he says "Boy, that was a good..." and the stagehand writes "movie" on the card, but Norm squints at it & can't read it, so he says "Hand on, lemme get me..." and the stagehand writes "glasses" on the card, but again, Norm can't read it, so he says "Hang on, let me get my..." and the stagehand writes "glasses" again. And again. And again. Finally they hold the card really close to his face and he says "glasses." He gets his glasses and reads all the other cards. "Glasses. Glasses. Glasses. Glasses. Movie." So that's where "glasses glasses glasses glasses movie" comes from.

Kris adds: "I add: Norm McDonald uses a stack implementation and, in fact, was written in CUSP."

Fri Jun 16 2000 08:00: PP trilogy sketches (done while bored):

RoPP cover sketch: WWPPD? bracelet

PPvDD sketch: Part 1: "iGeiger" plug? Why is it a plug? Alternate: light switch set to "on". Alternate: Toaster with arms.

Part 2: Clipboard in perspective (Rodney's clipboard). Pencil hanging from string. Grid. Right parts of grid have writing. Why? What's on the clipboard? I forget. Programming schedule?

Part 3: Suitcase from isometric (DD's suitcase). covered with stickers. "Brimstone Lake" "I fell into the 3-Foot Pit!" "The Bottomless Abyss" "Hall of Torture". Silly stuff. Airport tag: "HIA".

OMP! MK II cover sketch: Time-life evolution chart with PP at end in shake-hands position.

Funny but not a sketch: telescope with cap (videoscreen) on it; videoscreen image source plugs into telescope. Self-contained telescope.

PPvDD cover sketch: Two-world model with elevator from lower level to top level (comes out in LA).

OMP! Roster (PPs): Jade Silver, Pearl Coin, Slinky Stopwatch. Their five-year mission...

Westinghouse refrigerator water/ice dispenser drawing. Ice on the left (set to "crushed"), water on the right. Grill at bottom. Why?

President of the Gods: looks (but does not act) like Margaret Dumont

Rodney Blumenthal: Metallica "And Justice For All" t-shirt (2000 note: ha ha!) Clipboard. Sunglasses.

Eaters of Meaning: "Kiss What You Percieve To Be The Cook" Flipping burgers. Holding plate.

Deranged Sock Puppet closeup, holding pamphlet. Bloodshot googly eyes. :)

Gumby (the new gumby). He looks mean. Pokey doesn't look too good. Maybe just poorly drawn.

Biff Ptarmigan and Deranged Sock Puppet. Biff is limp except for portion of body under DSP control.

April Mae June, having fun in her ice cream sundae.

Fri Jun 16 2000 08:41: reasonably wonderful

The hazards of playing the Bill Gates Shockwave pie game on waterfall: "I summon the powers of NT!" -> application error

MUTEX (tm) from Conglomco (R) "Working for you!"

Let there be FOO! ("fiat FOO!")

Fri Jun 16 2000 10:57: Maybe someday this link will work: Infinity roguelike

Fri Jun 30 2000 06:30: Mark is up at an internship at VA and working on a printing project. I'll have to drop him a line.