7/14/03
Hmmm.... I get a rush job, I fire back a request for specs, and the person is having me wait. Nice to know that it's the CSR that's in a rush, and not the client. I can't give data unless they tell me the format and processes that they want done.
Does it bother anyone else that the little girl in The Ring is the voice of Lilo?
Update- good ol' Bret got the specs and ran with it. Kudos!
update mkii - Finally heard back from the Bro.. he's hanging in there, and getting by. he was at WF1, and tracking dwon gigs. More power to him, I say.
For the vampire computer game - Holy water is still at about Teasel and 4th
java Aquarius (from the makers of Fluxx) I'd really like to see multiplayer Fluxx online. I remember discussing doing something like that with A before finding out that he and H were fooling around on their associated spouses backs. I wonder how R is doing these days? Especially now that H & B have a baby that is probably about 2-3ish by now.
random scotto factoid - I drink a lot of orange juice.
a year ago - Newt's Tarot Reading, worked out Dan-route, How close are you to a nuclear waste hauling route?, wackies, big little books
two years ago - juxtaposition , news, audio mystey, assorted video tapes.
three years ago - imood, zircon added, hours change
current music: sesame street pinball song remix. Whee!
current mood: vegetarian breakfast sammich
Argh.. my dsl modem went down.. and I realize how spoiled I am... hitting my work PC at dial-up speeds is just awful. I'm just glad it took place at lunchtime, so odds were slimmest that I'd be needed on the phone and online at the same time. Dang... I just realised that I missed Lovejoy today, but I suspect Danny did too.
I'm still not sure why the modem needed to be reset, but c'est la vie. It's all better now.
Another reason in a series as to why I love her -
Black and White cookies and strong coffee. Yum is the word.
Though, to the geek in me, they invariably remind me of the black and whites on that old star trek episode.
Find where and when Star trek is playing in your area. (My personal prefs are old series, some next gen and DS9)
Eleven years ago a container of thousands of bathroom toys... rubber ducks, turtles, frogs, etc., fell off a cargo ship going from China to Seattle. Oceanographers have been tracking the swarm of toys, and learning about ocean currents. The flock of 29,000 toys has traveled around the Arctic, and they should soon be beaching themselves on New England shores.
Thousands of rubber ducks and other bath-time toys are due to become the unlikely allies of oceanographers 11 years after they were cast overboard from a container ship en route from China to Seattle.
The floating flock of 29,000 ducks and their companions - turtles, beavers and frogs - is heading for the New England coast, bleached and battered after a journey around the Arctic. Oceanographers say the trip has taught them valuable lessons about the ocean's currents.
The toys were cast adrift as the container ship carrying them encountered a storm in the Pacific Ocean. They floated along the Alaska coast and reached the Bering Strait by 1995, and Iceland five years later. By 2001 they had floated to the area in the north Atlantic where the Titanic sank.
"Some kept going, some turned and headed to Europe," says Curtis Ebbesmeyer of Seattle, a retired oceanographer who's been tracking their progress. "By now, hundreds should be dispersed along the New England coast."
Dr Ebbesmeyer has been able to track the toys that have washed ashore. He said they have been a useful tool in teaching oceanography, and have shed light on the way surface currents behave.
They are also a sobering reminder that about 10,000 containers fall off ships each year.
Dr Ebbesmeyer has also tracked 3 million pieces of Lego, 34,000 hockey gloves; and 50,000 Nike trainers that were spilled in 1999.
Fred Felleman, of the environmental group Ocean Advocates, said container ships carry 95% of the world's goods and are stacked higher and wider than ever before.
"Some 30% have hazardous materials in them. They're not just spilling Nikes," he said.
Hmmm.... I get a rush job, I fire back a request for specs, and the person is having me wait. Nice to know that it's the CSR that's in a rush, and not the client. I can't give data unless they tell me the format and processes that they want done.
Does it bother anyone else that the little girl in The Ring is the voice of Lilo?
Update- good ol' Bret got the specs and ran with it. Kudos!
update mkii - Finally heard back from the Bro.. he's hanging in there, and getting by. he was at WF1, and tracking dwon gigs. More power to him, I say.
For the vampire computer game - Holy water is still at about Teasel and 4th
java Aquarius (from the makers of Fluxx) I'd really like to see multiplayer Fluxx online. I remember discussing doing something like that with A before finding out that he and H were fooling around on their associated spouses backs. I wonder how R is doing these days? Especially now that H & B have a baby that is probably about 2-3ish by now.
random scotto factoid - I drink a lot of orange juice.
a year ago - Newt's Tarot Reading, worked out Dan-route, How close are you to a nuclear waste hauling route?, wackies, big little books
two years ago - juxtaposition , news, audio mystey, assorted video tapes.
three years ago - imood, zircon added, hours change
current music: sesame street pinball song remix. Whee!
current mood: vegetarian breakfast sammich
Argh.. my dsl modem went down.. and I realize how spoiled I am... hitting my work PC at dial-up speeds is just awful. I'm just glad it took place at lunchtime, so odds were slimmest that I'd be needed on the phone and online at the same time. Dang... I just realised that I missed Lovejoy today, but I suspect Danny did too.
I'm still not sure why the modem needed to be reset, but c'est la vie. It's all better now.
Another reason in a series as to why I love her -
Black and White cookies and strong coffee. Yum is the word.
Though, to the geek in me, they invariably remind me of the black and whites on that old star trek episode.
Find where and when Star trek is playing in your area. (My personal prefs are old series, some next gen and DS9)
Eleven years ago a container of thousands of bathroom toys... rubber ducks, turtles, frogs, etc., fell off a cargo ship going from China to Seattle. Oceanographers have been tracking the swarm of toys, and learning about ocean currents. The flock of 29,000 toys has traveled around the Arctic, and they should soon be beaching themselves on New England shores.
Thousands of rubber ducks and other bath-time toys are due to become the unlikely allies of oceanographers 11 years after they were cast overboard from a container ship en route from China to Seattle.
The floating flock of 29,000 ducks and their companions - turtles, beavers and frogs - is heading for the New England coast, bleached and battered after a journey around the Arctic. Oceanographers say the trip has taught them valuable lessons about the ocean's currents.
The toys were cast adrift as the container ship carrying them encountered a storm in the Pacific Ocean. They floated along the Alaska coast and reached the Bering Strait by 1995, and Iceland five years later. By 2001 they had floated to the area in the north Atlantic where the Titanic sank.
"Some kept going, some turned and headed to Europe," says Curtis Ebbesmeyer of Seattle, a retired oceanographer who's been tracking their progress. "By now, hundreds should be dispersed along the New England coast."
Dr Ebbesmeyer has been able to track the toys that have washed ashore. He said they have been a useful tool in teaching oceanography, and have shed light on the way surface currents behave.
They are also a sobering reminder that about 10,000 containers fall off ships each year.
Dr Ebbesmeyer has also tracked 3 million pieces of Lego, 34,000 hockey gloves; and 50,000 Nike trainers that were spilled in 1999.
Fred Felleman, of the environmental group Ocean Advocates, said container ships carry 95% of the world's goods and are stacked higher and wider than ever before.
"Some 30% have hazardous materials in them. They're not just spilling Nikes," he said.
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