Year: 2004

  • Fools

    Foolproof systems don’t take into account the ingenuity of fools.Gene Brown

  • Yea Baby!

    via email from Jay Lord, Thu, 16 Sep 2004 12:37:10 +0000

  • Do nothing for everyone

    Finally, software that admits to doing nothing for everybody! (Thanks to Gel speaker David Greenberger.) LinkOne-page cartoons for 5- to 15-year-olds, showing them how to build all kinds of stuff: LinkOptical illusion: undulating almonds. LinkFun music video (in Flash), featuring They Might Be Giants: LinkGoogle way back in 1960. (Thanks, Kevin Fox!) LinkQuickTime VR (panoramic)…

  • Republican Convention Schedule. (Final)

    On May 22 I posted the preliminary schedule for the 2004 Republican National Committee Convention Schedule New York, NY.  Apparently some changes were made and I just got the final agenda:6:00pm – Opening prayer6:15pm – Supplementary opening prayer6:30pm – Prayer in thanks of first two prayers6:45pm – New energy policy presented by Exxon7:00pm – Canonization…

  • You know you are grown up when…

    Your house plants are alive, and you can’t smoke any of them.Having sex in a twin bed is out of the question.You keep more food than beer in the fridge.6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to bed.You hear your favorite song on an elevatorYou watch the Weather Channel.Your friends marry…

  • Pay attention

    First-year students at Medical School were receiving their first anatomy class with a real dead human body.  They all gathered around the surgery table with the body covered with a white sheet.The professor started the class by telling them, “In medicine, it is necessary to have two important qualities as a doctor:The first is that…

  • Release

    The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.Theodore H. White