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Re: Twingine Google and Yahoo Search Results Side by Side

Dave (Fan) — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:43:46 -0000

http://www.SeekFreak.com is another useful dual searcher (can even do quad)

Re: Jason VON STRAUSSENBURG, Rest in Peace

M.Miller — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:18:26 -0000

Wow, quite a collection of wonderful memories here. I think that I met him in the 70s but can't be certain. Could someone post a photo? This would help a bunch with my memory (a little loopy from the 80s):^)

Re: Verizon FIOS Architecture

www.MoneyNing.com — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:06:00 -0000

It's good of you to say you are biased. Most people would not do the same. So I commend you for saying you are an employee of DISH.

Personally, I subscribe to AT&T at the moment (everything but TV) and never even thought about it. Of course, I can't imagine a scenario where my cell phone and home phone went out the same time.

Re: Please help me understand this photo

Carlos Augusto — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 22:30:58 -0000

It was the Kowloon Walled City

Re: Beginnings of a Butterfly Garden.

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Re: Why do GOOD people love BAD photography?

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Re: OpenProj — free, open source alternative to Microsoft Project

Lucian Ioan — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:44:39 -0000

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Re: Why do GOOD people love BAD photography?

Kim — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 03:06:10 -0000

ahaha... my fren did this to her image too. she loves blurry pic more than hd pic. she said she looks better in blurry pic

Re: Why do GOOD people love BAD photography?

Nathan Friedly — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:04:13 -0000

While it might not technically be an improvement in image quality, it does allow you to control what's wrong with the image. That gives it a perceived improvement in quality, at least in the eyes of the photographer, because "I meant to do that". (AKA "It's artistic.") That's my best guess anyways...

Re: Jason VON STRAUSSENBURG, Rest in Peace

ray'ssister — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 16:47:36 -0000

My brother and Roger Crona were very good friends during their teens in Michigan. I remember that Roger's father went to the store to pick up some milk and never returned home. I think Roger was about ten at the time. His mother really fell apart and had a very hard time raising her children by herself. Roger was so smart and creative and, yes, a bit wild. He had a room over the garage where he had installed "Get Smart" type doors - doors that opened and closed automatically. He invented a remote controlled blob that he and my brother would take out on Halloween and have go into people's houses when they opened the door for trick or treaters. They also recorded one of the worst thunderstorms and later during a very hot summer night (before people had central air) they put speakers up on the roof and blasted it as loud as possible in the middle of night. They cracked up as they saw all the lights go on around the neighborhood and people slamming their windows closed so they could swelter inside on a hot...and definitely rainless... summer night. A little discomfort but not serious mischief and definitely a very good prank for a couple of 15 year olds to pull off. They perpetrated a lot of good pranks.

Roger was always inventing things and one of them was a new kind of metallic car paint. Someone he knew stole a Corvette and Roger was repainting it in his garage. He wanted to test out his new paint. At least that is the story I heard and that was the first time he was sent to jail. When anything was stolen that no one would want, the local police always knew to go to Roger's house because he was always liberating things so he could build something new. My Dad always said that some big company should just give Roger a nice annual salary and any components he requested and just let him invent. He was a great guy who was too creative to conform to the conventional norms. I will always remember him and all the unusual fun he brought to our neighborhood. I am so sorry that the State of Michigan did not let him finish his life in peace. He deserved better.

Re: Dog Food Rated by Pet Pals, Inc.

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Re: Why do GOOD people love BAD photography?

Rfquerin — Mon, 02 May 2011 08:17:41 -0000

I think mostly it's a low-effort way of dressing up a photo. Though there can be a purpose to applying a vignette (eg. to draw attention to a specific feature of a shot). Also, because you're no doubt dealing with a source photo of mediocre quality (cam phone) the risk is low.
That all said, I like using PicPlz (mostly for it's phone->Picplz->Posterous->Identica workflow), but I find myself posting the stock photo without any effect most of the time now.

Re: Verizon FIOS Architecture

Andrew_K_Anderson — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:35:44 -0000

Which receiver do you have?
I’ll be honest here; I don’t have any direct influence over the engineering, R&D etc. But if you’re having issues I’d certainly like a chance to help or if you have any specific requests/suggestions I’d be more than happy to pass those along to the people who could take a serious look into it. In my time with DISH I’ve seen several improvements made by customer(s) request.

Re: Verizon FIOS Architecture

rjeffries — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:16:35 -0000

I am a long time Dish subscriber. What I want for Christmas is a much more
intelligent electronic program guide with much better usability. Maybe when
Google TV grows up?

Re: Verizon FIOS Architecture

Andrew_K_Anderson — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:06:00 -0000

I’m not really convinced of the benefits. Now I realize that being an employee of DISH Network I could be considered biased, but the problem I see with having all your communications/entertainment services coming from the same ‘line’ is that if there’s an outage—your out all your services. That’s one thing I like about being a DISH Network employee and subscriber, that if I do have a temporary issue with one service I can still enjoy the others. In addition DISH has more HD Channels than anyone else in the industry as well as some great alternative ways to view programming like dishonline.com (a live streaming site) and TV everywhere.

Re: Blog Renewal. It’s been a while…

Bill Cavnar — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:45:20 -0000

I also stopped writing in my regular blog a couple of years ago. I think I felt a little over-whelmed at the time: I had so many things I wanted to say that I froze up just trying to pick something. And the longer I hesitated the worse it got. Then I got really busy with work. End result: no blog.

Good for you for re-starting. Maybe it will catalyze a subconscious urging on my part to do the same.

Re: Identi.ca supports XMPP and FOAF.

Erkan Yilmaz — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 12:30:12 -0000

The identi.ca account you are referring to for the FOAF file does not exist anymore. (In case you can not find any other I could give you my account's FOAF file ;-))

Re: Dog Food Rated by Pet Pals, Inc.

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Re: Tungsten-C: MP3 Non-Starter

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Re: New word (for me): Daypart (re: food service industry)

russ77 — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:29:41 -0000

Daypart is a phrase that was used in radio in the 1960s and 1970s. It related to the audience you were expecting (Morning drive, mornings, afternoons, afternoon drive, evenings, overnight) and how you programmed specific music for different segments

Re: Python Database Performace: ZODB (object-oriented) vs. SQLite (relationl)

code43 — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:06:08 -0000

for serialization + persistance, check out the Python y_serial module at http://yserial.sourceforge.net -- most of the issues have been optimized for SQLite backend. One could use the plain insert method, but for speed try the ingenerator method. Generally yserial is faster than comparable PostgreSQL solutions for practically most projects.

Re: Remember when people wrote letters, on paper?

rjeffries — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 11:29:46 -0000

I agree. Handwriting is mainly a lost art. I never learned "cursive" writing as it was called in school. To this day, my handwriting is a not very pretty form of block letter printing.

But put me in front of a Correcting Selectric III...

Re: Remember when people wrote letters, on paper?

camillemendler — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 08:27:44 -0000

I applaud your endeavour, but I think you can do better. I remember a time when people REALLY wrote letters. By hand.

I can't speak for American education, but as a veteran of the French educational system, I clearly recall the hours and days I spent learning the correct number of curlicues to produce certain capital letters. C, M and T were quite ornate, for instance.

The art of (legible) handwriting seems to have disappeared. As for the curlicues to which I referred, they are only deployed for official signature duties - also sadly curtailed with the death of the cheque.

Good luck with your project!

Camille

Re: Jason VON STRAUSSENBURG, Rest in Peace

Daniel — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:09:34 -0000

I was a student at UCSB around the time Jason was completing his Andromeda project. Just wondering if there are any photos & descriptions available of that wonderful flying machine.
Thanks, and peace to you & all who were close to Jason.

Re: Video Progress Report

Jerry — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:30:35 -0000

How did you get the firewire to work? I have the same cam and a 17" HP with a 4pin under vista it's not even seeing the camera. There is very little help on the web. Any Ideas?