so, about two months later, I finally get my order from freeipods.com. order shipped 10/15/04 from China via fedex, arrived 3 days later on 10/18/04. I might post the obligatory pics later. worth nothing is that most of my completed referrals (if not all) came from people I don’t know in real life. these were…Continue Reading…
Excerpt from Infinity’s House by Ellen McLaughlin But we don’t need the thing to win the war. We’ve as good as won the war already. And as for saving the world, well, what comes to mind is Alfred Nobel thinking that when he invented dynamite he was going to end human warfare – I know…Continue Reading…
in the “townhall format” it seemed to be a better format overall due to the flexibility it offers the debaters. I didn’t see the whole thing, but having the audience ask questions was an interest aspect. It gives the debate a real purpose rather than just acting our a speech with no real substance. Particularly…Continue Reading…
from Kaplan “Revenge of the Nerds” While you might be comfortable many other places, the place you’d really like to be is in the lab—computer or otherwise. You want to know what’s cutting edge in science and technology, and you want to be at the forefront of the innovations. If this is you, take a…Continue Reading…
“This site is best viewed with a computer.” I remember a time when this was meant to be a joke, and it was funny. Sometimes people still take it as a joke. For example, I recently read someone state on a forum that it’s “hilarious.” It’s sort of a satire on the old “This site…Continue Reading…
especially computer-related or technicial terms, not that they’re amazingly difficult or anything, at least not to me. Just as an example, I spoke with someone today who claimed that the SP2 patch for Windows XP made their computer “laggy”. By “laggy” they did not mean their internet connection had high latency; rather, they meant their…Continue Reading…