Chester E. Wilson Quote
If you’re writing with an erasable marker, bring a tiny sponge. This stuff doesn’t taste good.
— Chester E. Wilson
If you’re writing with an erasable marker, bring a tiny sponge. This stuff doesn’t taste good.
— Chester E. Wilson
Katy: i heart gerald b. folland!
Auto response from alex:
oh em gee
Katy: he just totally did 3 of my hw problems!
Katy: and he’ll do more i think
Katy: (he’s the author of a text book :-))
Katy: hope you’re having a good night!1
iPod Bartender - Load a bunch of drink recipes on your iPod.
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This text will be here until I review the movie “Flight Plan.”
Woo!
UPDATE: Time to review the movie. Mykala and I caught this one at the “ghetto” Forest Lake movie theather. Given its rather dilapidated state, it had comfortable seating and decent sound - it’s no UltraScreen (at which I still have to see a movie, and at which, coincidentally, Flight Plan is currently playing), but it was certainly acceptable.
Good Friday night movie - decent levels of suspense, good twist, and no horror-movie stuff (blood and guts kept to quite a minimum given the possibilities). As our local movie reviewer noted, Flight Plan plays off our previous experiences with characters. The last thing I expected was the guy from Skeleton Key (Peter Sarsgaard) and the guy from GoldenEye (Sean Bean) to play the parts they did. The thought “mysteries always introduce the guilty one in the first act” popped into my head, but quickly vanished as I was accelerated into the movie.
My previous experiences with horror films caused great recoil with the coffin scenes (I think my reference is vague enough to not be a spoiler), but the movie refused to slip into this genre just as it refused to end quickly or tidily. It pulled every last bit of tension it could in the final scenes, and I loved it. Some good old cat-and-mouse, some interesting twists, all followed by a satisfying ending.
Would watch again.
Free text messages using your email - This is awesome - simply prefix the person’s phone number behind an @____.com address, and you can send text messages to anyone for free! To send a text message to me, it’s myphone#@cingularme.com - cool.
Whale breaching - Cool article. I’d like to to see this in person someday.
Occasionally, we get these “Public Safety Alerts” via the St. Thomas email system that outline some man making lewd comments on the corner of Cretin and Marshall or a 6’1” white guy acting suspiciously outside of the cafeteria. I, of course, made those up - but they should give you some impression of how low-key our public safety issues are. My sister lived in Minneapolis around the U of M for two years - a fatal shooting occurred right across the street from her. Now that’s real violence. Anyhow, in our little St. Paul haven public safety seems to be becoming more of a problem:
Public Safety and Parking Services would like to alert the University of St. Thomas community of a robbery that occurred off campus.
At approximately 12:15 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 15, a St. Thomas student reported that while walking north near the intersection of Cleveland and Goodrich avenues, he was assaulted and robbed by two black males.
The suspects came up behind the student and struck him in the head with an unknown object, knocking him to the ground. The suspects then began kicking the student. The suspects took the student’s cash from his wallet and fled from the scene. The student suffered injuries to his face and head as a result of the assault. The student reported the incident to the St. Paul Police Department the following day.
The suspects are described as two 20- to 24-year-old black males, approximately 5’ 9” tall, with medium build.
The student wished to share with the St. Thomas community that he is 6’ 5” and 225 lbs, and that his size was no deterrent to the suspects in the assault.
Seriously, that’s a little outside of the usual warnings we see. I hope everyone is ok and this is an isolated incident. I’d like to say something witty to lighten the mode, but I’m afraid there will be another incident where someone gets hurt and I’ll feel like a jerk. So, a heavy mood it is.
The best iPod case for sports - I’ve got a wonderful Burning Love case for when my iPod is at home with me (thank you, Mykala :), but I found that I need something a little more when I am running. This Incase case comes with wristband, armband, hard cover … everything you need for working out. Reasonable price, and a very rare flat A rating from Ilounge.com.
The best personal organization tool - This is Backpack. Here’s what it is. Imagine this: an interactive planner containing your different to-do lists, images, resources, calendar, reminders, and contacts. Then, make it shareable with more than one person. Plus, Backpack follows you everywhere because it is a lightweight web application.
Applications like this, that bring computer files together around projects and eliminate the need to know where files are located are the future. In the meantime, using something like this for a small project school project is something I just may try.
iPod nano: That small? - Yeah, the iPod nano next to a Club cracker. Good lord.
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