Archive for December, 2004
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29 Dec 2004
Long-time Law and Order star, Jerry Orbach, has died from prostate cancer at 69. I love that show, and the character was just so dang witty and sarcastic. He'll be missed.
/me pours a beer on the curb
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28 Dec 2004
You know I love statistics/numbers/trivia. Last night in the gym, the UConn football game was on, and it's got me in the mood for Superbowl XXXIX. Clicking around, reading about some football stuff, led me to a fantastic list of Peyton Manning's amazing season. He broke the record for most touchdown passes in a season; but read the article. He's broken all kinds of records in stupendous fashion, and has been an amazing Quarterback his whole career.
"So far this year, Manning has more touchdown passes than the Giants, Ravens, Bears, and Cardinals combined (44). He has more TD passes in 15 games this season than the Giants have in their last 50 games (48). If you split Manning up into two quarterbacks, he would rank third and fourth in touchdown passes among AFC quarterbacks with 25 and 24."
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27 Dec 2004
The Torino Impact Hazard Scale was created in 1995 to categorize near-Earth object impact hazards. Until last week, no object had been scored higher than a 1 (out of 10). The asteroid 2004 MN4 has been given a 4. NASA is reporting that there is a 1 in 37 (2.7 percent) chance that the 390-meter rock will hit the Earth on Friday 13 April 2029. More at Wikipedia.
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27 Dec 2004
Walking every block of Manhattan. Somehow, I'm always captivated by obsessive projects like this. Check out his web page, too.
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27 Dec 2004
Dear spammers: I had been perfectly satisfied with allowing you to plop your online gambling and pharmeceutical links in my blog from time to time. Every couple of weeks, I'd take a look at the comments interface in Moveable Type and delete anything that didn't look like a legit comment. Then you had to go and ruin that by posting 300 spams Christmas Eve.
Now I've installed MT Blacklist. It's got about 2500 spam filters defined, and when I see one sneak through, it reports it to a central server and everyone else who uses MTB gets to know that you're blog spamming.
I hope you got a lot of click-throughs for those comments, because you won't be getting many more.
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23 Dec 2004
The newest Nintendo Revolution rumor is that the new console will not have a D-pad or buttons on the controllers. Anyone's obvious first thought is: "touchpad?" A totally dynamic controller would be pretty cool, if it was still comfortable.
Also, Nintendo has confirmed that the console will be shown at E3 2005.
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23 Dec 2004
Non-modality, instant-apply, and a nice new look are in store for Firefox's preferences dialog. Although it hasn't been checked in yet, this is just one of the reasons to stay up to date with the nightlies. (But these are all the reasons not to.)
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21 Dec 2004
Do not buy a portable breathalyzer and bring it with you on a night on the town. It will be your undoing.
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21 Dec 2004
As a birthday gift, I was presented with this lovely message on my Freeipods.com account this morning:
5 of your referrals must sign up and complete one offer. Currently 5 of your friends have joined and successfully completed one offer.
Thanks to Brian, Chris, Manish, Nomad, and Mari for making this possible. Hopefully you guys aren't suspicious-looking frauds, and they'll approve my free iPod!
Update: They decided that Chris and Mari, who now live together, were the same "household", and thus cancelled their referrals. I felt really crappy about this yesterday afternoon, but then my parents gave me a 175G SATA drive, and I feel better now.
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20 Dec 2004
Honda's fuel-cell car, the FCX, is now very close to large-scale commercialization. It's got 272 Nm of torque, which is almost as much as the Subaru WRX. According to the article, the 55% "torque energy efficiency" is double that of a hybrid car and triple that of a gas-only car. I can't wait for these to hit the US.