A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.
At Internet Superhighway a pair of internet revolutionaries. Drew up this fractal heart based on the Sierpinski trangle on the whiteboards provided by Mel, Greg and Olin crew. Pretty cool, but so far my favorite take on the subject were the fractal cookies from Evil Mad Scientist(s).
Hrrm, now for Sierpinski heart cookies?
My memes are overwhelming.
I’ve received more disappointing spam this week. I don’t know if spamming has changed and I’ve fallen behind or if I’m just not getting it these days. But I got an email the other day with Subject: ” Job Offer”.
This is to inform you that Greenwood children foundation is interested in offering you a part-time paying job…
via Appropedia (Sustainable technology wiki):
Toilet. Internet. OLPC. Bollywood. SRLY?
The world becomes a weirder place day by day.
But akvo.org looks like a really interesting group interested in Open Source sanitation information available over the internet. The posters are designed with a Bollywood-esk look to garner enough interest to go to the website.
As silly as this idea is, I love it.
(note: they’re using a beta revision of the XO hardware (B2). You can tell by the green hinge case.)
At the first monthly Internet Superhighway event Kevin Driscoll sported this name tag with his ICQ #. I was browsing through photos of the event and I was inspired to look up my oh-so-historic ICQ#.
Christina Xu (also the photographer of the above photo) is writing her thesis on the history of instant messengers. That has to have influenced my desire as well.
I needed to figure out my ICQ#, so I went to check out the ICQ.com. I haven’t been here in ages. But I started searching for my #, aaaaaand unfortunately didn’t find anything. :(
So instead I started thinking back to when I first got an ICQ number. I had one or two before one stuck in, I think, 7th grade. I can recall one occasion in 9th grade where I had the # memorized and was giving it out. And if I had the number memorized once? Perhaps I could recall it.
I knew that it started with 10, then 22, and had a 23 at the end. Figuring out from ICQ that #’s back in the day had 9 digits, I had but to figure out the other 3 digits, and their order. Amazingly enough, it came to me: 102239023. I even remembered my password.
If you are still rocking ICQ via Pidgin or other multi-protocol clikent please feel free to add me!
