7/2/03

Dreams of a belly dancer came to me last night. *rawr*.

Net meeting today. Had a nice, solid hour-long dev-chat. good suggestions, pleased with where I've gone with both of the projects. We're going to have to schedule another one soon, for when I implement some of the requests. pending data coming?

multi-form for history and notes. item master - subsets of history -split data

batch processing concentrate

customer id job #

get the data into postal soft

xml import of Dbase, rather than CSV

smaller batches / 750 records at a time file-chop.

"When water enters the cup, it becomes the cup! When water enters the bottle, it becomes the bottle! Now, water can flow, or it can crash.

Be the water."

Where's that from?

I'm so very happy for and her poet! Rock on, sis!



ElboRoom Cam

Sun-Sentinel.com Web Cam

Cape Canaveral

Lauderdale marina cams

all 4 Boat station cams

intracoastal dock
underwater
fuel dock
west entrance

Manatee cam 8-5 est gallery


Fort Lauderdale international airport.

Edison South Beach

Sloppy Joe's Key West

Key West Aquarium - in tank

Key West Aquarium - over tank

Mallory Square, billyfish, pier, and sunset cam

Hog's Breath Saloon

Oh, and of course,

Newtcam!



Random Big Trouble in Little China Quote in my head -

"What’s that?"

"Black blood of the earth."

"You mean oil, right?"

"No, I mean black blood of the Earth!"

Miss Keane has an orange cat named Valentino, which broke up Keane and the Professor.

Gray's Anatomy online. A fun surf. I'm pondering synching it to my palmtop.

The Bush Administration modified HIPAA. And not in a good way. What started as a privacy law has become a way for the government to catalogue your most intimate personal physical details. Welcome to the new Amerika and Happy 4th!

Logic Primer - a good introductory catalogue of logic and fallacy. If folks participating in the debate-style communities stuck to this sort rule set, I'd be more prone to participate in discussions there. Not that I'm not an atheist, but the logic remains.

I confess to being especially guilty of Cum hoc ergo propter hoc, Equivocation, Appeal to Nature attacks in debate.

Giant Sea Creature Baffles Chilean Scientists

SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Chilean scientists were baffled on Tuesday by a huge, gelatinous sea creature found washed up on the southern Pacific coast and were seeking international help identifying the mystery specimen.

The dead creature was mistaken for a beached whale when first reported about a week ago, but experts who went to see it said the 40-foot-long mass of decomposing lumpy gray flesh apparently was an invertebrate.

"We'd never before seen such a strange specimen, We don't know if it might be a giant squid that is missing some of its parts or maybe it's a new species," said Elsa Cabrera, a marine biologist and director of the Center for Cetacean Conservation in Santiago.

Photographs showed a round leathery substance like a mammoth jelly fish, about as long as a school bus.

Giant squid live at a depth of 9,500 feet and only rise to the surface when they die. Specimens have been known to be as long as 60 feet.

There was speculation that the mass might be a whale skin, but Cabrera said it was too big and did not have the right texture or smell.

Cabrera said she was contacting Chilean and international organizations in the hope that they could help shed some light on the find.

The Chilean Navy first spotted the mystery specimen along with another large mass, but the other dead animal turned out to be a dead humpback whale.