Current Mood:
Hot & 
Tired
This weekend was decent. We saw Eddie Izzard last night; he looked up and read from the Chicken entry on Wikipedia with his iPhone, and if I’d been quick at all on both the wit and phone browser, it would’ve been amusing to add something goofy for him to read out. Although according to the revision history for that page, it looks like standard procedure is to replace references to “cock” with “penis”. How droll. Other than that, the new Eddie buzzwords are: Jazz chickens, don’t piss in a toaster, and Asus, Bsus, Csus, etc. etc. Good stuff.
I got my first real hat that wasn’t a freebie — a Henschel Safari, which sort of looks like a fedora, kind of, and works amazingly well at keeping the sun out. I’m told I look good in it. So now I too have a nice hat!
So, the links. Only three tonight; The internet is still lax in performing its duty of entertaining me.
- Missouri town runs on wind power — a town in Missouri has four turbines that produce more power than it uses. Someday solar panels will be cheap enough that I too will be able to afford it.
- Personal hovercraftboards — small, large-skateboard-sized hovercrafts.
- For those who write software, here’s a good idea to add data checksumming so that if a piece of your file becomes corrupted, you can fix it. Sort of like RAID protection on a data file level. Not a bad idea at all.
The latest podcast episodes of Wait Wait, Don’t Tell me(the NPR news quiz show) and This American Life are up now. Go listen!