Archive for February, 2004

Sunday, February 29th, 2004

Well here we are on this quadrennial solar calendar correction day.
Link explaining leap year
I like Leap years, they make sense. However daylight saving time is another matter. Just leave summer time on all year!
Relevant Quote:
A safety reminder
Many fire departments encourage people to change the battery in the smoke detector when they change their […]

Saturday, February 28th, 2004

The GPL (general public license) is the heart of the open source movement. The GPL has the rules that everyone who uses the licensed code has to follow. Basically the rule is that if you use this code to make something new, you have to release that code under the GPL. It ensures that all […]

Thursday, February 26th, 2004

Well this certainly falls under the retarded link category.
Ducks’ odyssey nears end
Favorite quotes:
– The ducks - along with other bathtub toys like beavers, turtles and frogs - fell overboard from a container ship en route from China to Seattle during a storm in 1992.
–The ducks were among 350 containers which rolled off a ship in […]

Monday, February 23rd, 2004

Gawd it was squishy out today. I had to pick my way home through a giant mud puddle. Fortunately, I didn’t slip and fall and get my new jacket all covered with slime. If I had, I may have bawled my eyes out and ran home with the jeers of my friends chasing me along […]

Wednesday, February 18th, 2004

Nothing really much to say today excecpt that this is one of my favorite sites and I wish I could write like this guy.
For every animal you don’t eat, I’ll eat three
How is hegoing to eat that Tucan?
Playing on my iTunes: MacArthur Park, The Donna Summer Disco Redux. Sorry to make you barf.

Tuesday, February 17th, 2004

Road Jersey
Why would anyone buy it? They’re designed to look ugly and drab and gray. Not only are you shunning fashion sense (players demand millions to wear those things in public) but you’re also shunning your home field. Why would you want a jersey that signified being away from your friendly confines where there […]

Saturday, February 14th, 2004

I’ll sue your ass into next tuesday!
Not meant as any kind of statement on copyrights, just a funny link.

Tuesday, February 10th, 2004

Mallory of West Annondale, AZ writes:
Dear Morton,
Where did Valentines Day come from?
xoxoxo, Mallory
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Well Mallory, that’s a very timely question considering Valentine’s Day is this very Saturday! We here at the lab did a little research into the history and found some interesting results.
Many people these days are trying to convince young folks such as yourself […]

Monday, February 9th, 2004

Those of you folks tuning in this evening will probably see this page go nuts as I mess around with the code to add category icons. Don’t adjust your computer monitors, I’ll get this right eventually…

Monday, February 9th, 2004

For all you people that I badger for using Intardnet Exploder and iCab, I’m here to offer a solution. Enter Firefox, (formerly firebird, formerly phoenix) the web browser from Mozilla.org that absolutely rocks.

It’s fast, it’s sleek, and it renders things in a non-retarded way. FireFox continues in development, while other browsers languish in […]