9:46 PM | •
Went down to the San Diego Zoo today with 13 other people from my apartment complex. It was...well, it was a zoo. Zoos were a lot more fun when I was 10. But at least I got out of the apartment today.

Because of traffic, I spent 5 hours in the back seat of a Camaro. Damn, I missed my Camry.

12:47 AM | •
The weirdest thing I've seen in a long time: a black man who was turned white as a side effect of pills for liver disease. I will refrain from the obligatory Michael Jackson comment.

8.3.2001

11:12 AM | •
Laid-off Workers Are Striking Back

"Two of the most common acts of revenge are theft of company property and breaches in the company's computer network, according to an annual survey of Fortune 1000 companies by Pinkerton, the Chicago security firm."

8.2.2001

11:44 PM | •
Ichiyoh Haga is a Japanese artist who makes some really nice miniature model work. He makes highly detailed, 1/80 scale models of run-down, beat up Japanese buildings. Don't miss his equally impressive art in a box either.
[ From gmtPlus9 ]

9:58 PM | •
Michigan Police Use Database to Harass

"Michigan police have used the state's law enforcement database to stalk women, threaten motorists and settle scores, the Detroit Free Press reported Tuesday."

11:35 AM | •
Even though I probably failed my math final yesterday, I can take comfort in the fact that I never have to take a math class again for the rest of my life. Well, assuming I pass this class, anyway.

8.1.2001

7:06 PM | •
Ars Technica interviewed the production team of Final Fantasy about the technical aspects of the movie. Some interesting stats: the movie had 149,246 frames, the average frame took 90 minutes to render, and altogether the render time was 934,162 days. Interesting stuff for those of you into computer graphics.

6:47 PM | •
The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook. I think it would be even funnier if I had paid attention in philosophy class.

7.30.2001

6:44 PM | •
Police Find 500 Skeletons in House
Which reminds me, when's Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses coming out?

12:51 PM | •
The Pentagon has plans for a spacecraft which could bomb targets from outer space. It would drop bombs from 60 miles up and travel halfway around the world in 90 minutes. From that height the bombs wouldn't even need warheads.

My favorite quote from the article says the bomber "...could drop precision bombs from heights of 60 miles or more." Now, it's well known that smart bombs dropped from B-2 bombers in Desert Storm and Kosovo missed their targets. If the military can't hit a target from 7 miles up, there's no way they can hit something from 60.

Not only that, but the bomber would use technology from NASA's X-33 reusable spacecraft program, which was cancelled because of technical problems. So all of a sudden the Pentagon can get it to work?

Another great idea from the Bush administration.

11:48 AM | •
For those of you Macintosh users, Apple has a new keyboard out. Very stylish.