6/25/03
It's such a pleasant surprise to see a rational, human response to the screw-up yesterday. I'm really glad that it was received as well as it was.
Just noticed a cool name subscribed to my journal... Sernya. (it's a pair of golden fish, Symbolizing resurrection of eternal life, rebirth etc. The pair signifies the ability to swim with ease without obstruction in the ocean of this world. They may also be taken to symbolize the eye of perception as fish can see through muddy water. The fish couple suggests mutual aid and indispensability between male and female material life.) I wonder who they are, and if I know them?
I hear Hagrid is sort of a second-string character in the latest HP. That's sort of a bummer, he's my fave. I wonder if having such a huge franchise is allowing her to write stuff that's an 870 page children's book. Sounds like an editor is needed.
Groceries coming by between 1:10-2:10, Dan's Coming by today sometime midday...after he registers at FAU. Hooray for key lime pie and Danny!
I don't watch Smallville, but I hear that they got Terence Stamp (General Zod) to Play Jor-El recently. How keen is that to a Fanboy?
LONDON (Reuters) - Move over Spider-Man -- mere mortals may soon be coming to a ceiling near you.
Researchers at the University of Manchester say they have cracked the secret of one of the reptile world's greatest climbers, the gecko, and produced a sticky tape that can mimic the lizard's gravity-defying abilities.
Soon, people could walk on walls like comic-book superhero Spider-Man, the university said.
"The new adhesive -- gecko tape -- contains billions of tiny plastic fibers which are similar to natural hairs covering the soles of geckos' feet," the University said in a statement.
"The research team believes it won't be long before Spider-Man gloves become a reality."
Bob Full, a biology professor at the University of California at Berkeley in the United States, who was also involved, said the technology could be used for handling computer chips and could have applications in medicine.
Plans are under way to produce larger pads and to improve the tape's durability, said the journal Nature Materials, which published the paper. It added that humans could hang from the ceiling by covering just one palm with the tape.
But Manchester University said cost was currently prohibitive.
"We have considered producing a large amount of gecko tape, sufficient amounts to enable a student to hang out of the window of a tall building," it said. "However it would cost too much money, and would not benefit us scientifically."
Thanks to Matt for pointing out that Hi-C's Orange Lavaburst is the same Flavor as the old Ecto Cooler.
Some very cool comic book action figures. I wish they had a pic of the Golden age Green Lantern. The plushie version is pretty cool. I'm tempted to get Doug Deadman. I lean to Crypozoology ones, for myself. Hooray for Bigfoot action figures!
I just got to play super-database wunderkind for work, so I think that my street cred is up another few notches again. They had two totally demolished excel files, and I was able to write a quick bit of SQL that put the thing together again, resized fields and prepped the data for import into the xml system. Hooray for MySQL! I can't recommend it enough to anyone who does any sort of database programming. Did I mention that it's FREE under the GNU General Public License (GPL)?
Oh, I'd say that's the best ever. Now, if you want tech support, and can't be bothered to read the documentation (which is very complete and easy to follow) they're happy to charge you for that, and for certification.
Doug's getting into No One Lives forever... Dan got it for me a birthday or three ago, and I still have to say it's my favorite fps/spy game in a long time.
I joined fotolog, after seeing's online. You can upload one image of up to 2 Megs a day. I took a quick snap of Dan & Myself (as Mage knight) fighting zombies on a bridge. I'm a little disappointed that it auto resized it... but I like the effect. More like a bad TV image than a woodcut now. If anyone else adds the log, let me know, so I can see your stuff!
I don't think it's good to remotely link the images to here, look like they kill the bandwidth.
New guy delivering groceries... he was about 45 min late. Nice fellow though, and I didn't mind.. not like I was waiting to go to a concert or something.
It's such a pleasant surprise to see a rational, human response to the screw-up yesterday. I'm really glad that it was received as well as it was.
Just noticed a cool name subscribed to my journal... Sernya. (it's a pair of golden fish, Symbolizing resurrection of eternal life, rebirth etc. The pair signifies the ability to swim with ease without obstruction in the ocean of this world. They may also be taken to symbolize the eye of perception as fish can see through muddy water. The fish couple suggests mutual aid and indispensability between male and female material life.) I wonder who they are, and if I know them?
I hear Hagrid is sort of a second-string character in the latest HP. That's sort of a bummer, he's my fave. I wonder if having such a huge franchise is allowing her to write stuff that's an 870 page children's book. Sounds like an editor is needed.
Groceries coming by between 1:10-2:10, Dan's Coming by today sometime midday...after he registers at FAU. Hooray for key lime pie and Danny!
I don't watch Smallville, but I hear that they got Terence Stamp (General Zod) to Play Jor-El recently. How keen is that to a Fanboy?
LONDON (Reuters) - Move over Spider-Man -- mere mortals may soon be coming to a ceiling near you.
Researchers at the University of Manchester say they have cracked the secret of one of the reptile world's greatest climbers, the gecko, and produced a sticky tape that can mimic the lizard's gravity-defying abilities.
Soon, people could walk on walls like comic-book superhero Spider-Man, the university said.
"The new adhesive -- gecko tape -- contains billions of tiny plastic fibers which are similar to natural hairs covering the soles of geckos' feet," the University said in a statement.
"The research team believes it won't be long before Spider-Man gloves become a reality."
Bob Full, a biology professor at the University of California at Berkeley in the United States, who was also involved, said the technology could be used for handling computer chips and could have applications in medicine.
Plans are under way to produce larger pads and to improve the tape's durability, said the journal Nature Materials, which published the paper. It added that humans could hang from the ceiling by covering just one palm with the tape.
But Manchester University said cost was currently prohibitive.
"We have considered producing a large amount of gecko tape, sufficient amounts to enable a student to hang out of the window of a tall building," it said. "However it would cost too much money, and would not benefit us scientifically."
Thanks to Matt for pointing out that Hi-C's Orange Lavaburst is the same Flavor as the old Ecto Cooler.
Some very cool comic book action figures. I wish they had a pic of the Golden age Green Lantern. The plushie version is pretty cool. I'm tempted to get Doug Deadman. I lean to Crypozoology ones, for myself. Hooray for Bigfoot action figures!
I just got to play super-database wunderkind for work, so I think that my street cred is up another few notches again. They had two totally demolished excel files, and I was able to write a quick bit of SQL that put the thing together again, resized fields and prepped the data for import into the xml system. Hooray for MySQL! I can't recommend it enough to anyone who does any sort of database programming. Did I mention that it's FREE under the GNU General Public License (GPL)?
Oh, I'd say that's the best ever. Now, if you want tech support, and can't be bothered to read the documentation (which is very complete and easy to follow) they're happy to charge you for that, and for certification.
Doug's getting into No One Lives forever... Dan got it for me a birthday or three ago, and I still have to say it's my favorite fps/spy game in a long time.
I joined fotolog, after seeing
I don't think it's good to remotely link the images to here, look like they kill the bandwidth.
New guy delivering groceries... he was about 45 min late. Nice fellow though, and I didn't mind.. not like I was waiting to go to a concert or something.
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