Monday, March 28, 2005

Did I miss it? Did we just travel back in time?

Pharmacists often risk dismissal or other disciplinary action to stand up for their beliefs, while shaken teenage girls and women desperately call their doctors, frequently late at night, being turned away by sometimes-lecturing men and women in white coats.

Damn. I thought we were over being lectured by the men behind the counter--that stopped in the 1960s, right?

Tuesday, March 08, 2005

About a year ago I referenced a clock that I had found at nohope.org. It has disappeared from that site, but Rodin has found it.

I agree. It is an awesome clock.

Now, what would be cool is to feed it to an LCD on my wall...

Monday, March 07, 2005

I got Jason to dict me the other day (it is a lot more nerdy and a lot less dirty than you are thinking):

[jason@floxx ~]$ dict amanda
2 definitions found

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

Amanda, OH (village, FIPS 1630)
Location: 39.65038 N, 82.74326 W
Population (1990): 729 (284 housing units)
Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 43102

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

Amanda

A {functional programming language} derived mostly from {Miranda} with some small changes. Amanda was written by Dick Bruin and implemented on {MS-DOS} and {NeXT}. It is available as an {interperator} only.

(1998-04-27)


I never knew I was a programming language.