Just finished a two day project (part time) of shovelling off the pond down the road for ice skating. The skating wasn't too bad, but my ice skates rot! I picked them up at a garage sale a few years ago and they remind me of Steve Martin's Cruel Shoes. How about this for a product idea: ice skating wheel replacements for rollerblades? (time passes...uncovered laserblades, bolt on ice blades for inline skates)Doesn't matter, it started snowing again and the forecast calls for at least half a foot of new snow overnight.
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I've always wanted to learn Dvorak keyboarding, maybe this will help: A Basic Course in Dvorak. I failed keyboarding in high school, not for shortcomings in my typing but for talking. Maybe students should get graded on their ability in the given subject and then get a separate rider for other, wanted or unwanted, characteristics? Many years later in a community college C++ class one of my fellow students, a going-gray-around-the-temples-radio-shack-manager looking fellow, told me that if I worked for him and typed like that (I whack the keys pretty hard) he'd fire me on the spot. It's true. If keyboards were pressure sensitive then everything I type would be in ALL BOLD CAPS and burning out the phosphor on your monitor.
Some random links:
LSSU's Banished Words 2002 none of which I found on the, This page cannot be ****ing displayed page, a sarcastic rewrite of IE's standard error message page.
Why we don't have light sabers...(not for the squeamish).
An argument for walking... "Weight loss is the resolution of the timid, the dull, the supremely narcissistic. It displays no creativity whatsoever. Especially in January." Karen Heller, Philadelphia Inquirer
LSSU's Banished Words 2002 none of which I found on the, This page cannot be ****ing displayed page, a sarcastic rewrite of IE's standard error message page.
Why we don't have light sabers...(not for the squeamish).
An argument for walking... "Weight loss is the resolution of the timid, the dull, the supremely narcissistic. It displays no creativity whatsoever. Especially in January." Karen Heller, Philadelphia Inquirer
Since switching to the Opera browser I've been browsing more often with images turned off. It's great for sites who's only image content consists of ads. On pages where you want to see one or more of the images you have the choice of a single key press (shift-G) to load all images or right clicking on a single image to see it. Sometimes this uncovers interesting side aspects of a page, like this Denver Post story, Filtered underwear fights flatulence, where the image is titled "fartbig". On the E4Engineering site the image accompanying a story on bionic eyes is labelled "Brain New Web Pages". This is controlled by the little used ALT image tag, which is meant for providing appropriate text for browsers which are unable to display images (yes, there are a number of them). Newer versions of internet explorer shows this text if you put your mouse over the image for a few seconds. There are a couple ALTs on my page, but otherwise I've been sadly negligent. Maybe that's one way to sprinkle more easter eggs around the web?