Blogger Peter Rost shares an email to Dr. Laura that he found on the internet.
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Old and Geeky
PC World has named the 50 Best Tech Products of All Time. Sadly, I am old enough and geeky enough to recognize every item on the list. I’ve used and even owned many of these products. I’d argue some of their choices (seriously, Lotus but not VisiCalc?) if I thought there would be any point.
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Kermit is sad
Evidently, Kermit didn’t take the death of Jim Henson very well. Read all about it here (link broken). The following video may be objectionable to some viewers.
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Go Your Way
The P-Mate is a bizarre product that purportedly allows women to pee standing up. Check out the How To page for the explanation of how it works. I am doubtful.
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Nadia’s Theme
Remember this? My sister had it on one of her K-Tel records and we listened to it alot back in the 70s. I don’t know why I remembered it recently, but this one is for Maridee.
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Flickr
I’ve taken a number of pictures in recent years that didn’t really fit in at the Rynosoft Gallery because it mostly contains family photos. Recently I discovered that Flickr, a free service from Yahoo!, is an excellent way to store and share your photos online. I started Flickr page for several of my photo projects, including this set documenting my last trip to the sleep clinic.
Flickr has some nifty features like the ability to add notes right on the photo (as in this example, specifying the geographical location of a photo, tagging photos with searchable keywords, organizing photos into sets and a bunch of other stuff I haven’t checked out yet. It’s really well done.
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Fitter Happier
As I mentioned earlier, Thomas has show some interest in learning how to program computers. After a discussion with some colleagues at work, I decided to introduce him to Logo, a graphics-centered language that is based on the more sophisticated Lisp.
A quick Google of “logo+mac” got me this website where you can download a free version of Logo for the Mac. I had him download it and try some of the tutorials here. He took to it immediately and it was interesting enough to keep him off of Runescape for a few hours.
Logo has been around since before I got into computers so there are many resources available to support learning endeavors. I searched for books on Half.com and Amazon and found a compelling review for this book by Brian Harvey. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a very good price for it.
On a whim, I googled the author’s name and found his website. He works at UC Berkeley now and has provided free online editions of all three volumes of his Computer Science Logo Style series:
I told Thomas that when he was through with Logo, I’d show him Java, the cross-platform language from Sun. He wants to learn Java already, but I’m holding him back for awhile. The second volume of the Harvey series has a few game examples, so I think that will keep him busy for the time being.
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Soda Pop Stop
Who doesn’t love soda? Galco’s Soda Pop Stop is the premiere site on the internet for buying soda. You may have seen it profiled on the Food Network. Sure, it’s relatively expensive, but where else can you get Bubble Up these days?
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Good advice (for Mac users)
Unsanity has an excellent article about the pre-binding phase of software installation and how it can really cause you grief if you’re not careful. It’s required reading for any Mac OS X user.
