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E.T. in the Sky

Posted by Mark | Filed under Elsewhere

Looks more like E.T. reach­ing out his fin­ger to “phone home” than what you linked to. In response to A Some­what Omnious Cloud Shape Today of All Days by John Scalzi.

Tags: Elsewhere, history, Photos

Read more | Comments (2) | Aug 9, 2007

Quizziness

Posted by Mark | Filed under Quizzes

Sorry, but I don’t have any links for PLotW. Instead, please enjoy these var­i­ous quizzes. You fit in with: Human­ismYour ideals mostly resem­ble that of a Human­ist. Although you do not have a lot of faith, you are devoted to mak­ing this world bet­ter, in the short time that you have to live. Human­ists do […]

Tags: Books, coffee, Flickr, future, geek, history, home, Links, Love, Movies, office, PHP, problem, Quiz, quotes, random, stylish, troops

Read more | Comments (0) | Oct 28, 2005

Firefox Tip

Posted by Mark | Filed under Software

Have you been using Fire­fox for sev­eral months? And dur­ing that time noticed that it’s tak­ing longer & longer for the Save File dia­log box to come up? Then likely, you’ve got the same prob­lem that I’ve had. For­tu­nately, there’s an easy (but slow) fix for this.   Instruc­tions: Open Fire­fox. Go into Tools -> Options […]

Tags: coffee, firefox, history, home, linux, Privacy, problem, tools, windows

Read more | Comments (0) | Aug 19, 2005

“don’t paint over their lollipop trees.”

Posted by Mark | Filed under Links

Been feel­ing a bit burned out lately, too many weeks of run­ning around doing stuff and not enough down time, I sus­pect (hence the lack of posts and lack of Ant-Boy). Any­way, while tak­ing a break I ran across this arti­cle over at CSM. I’ve felt that frus­tra­tion as well when I was younger. Back […]

Tags: annoyed, coffee, history, pain, park, quotes, water

Read more | Comments (0) | Sep 30, 2004

Review: Steaming pile of poo

Posted by Mark | Filed under Movies, Reviews

Over the week­end, I had the oppor­tu­nity to go and see Sky Cap­tain and the World of Tomor­row. Wow was that ever a mis­take! I went in know­ing that most of the review­ers out there had said it was bad and about half of the geeks were say­ing the same1. How­ever the trail­ers for the […]

Tags: camera, Code, flying, geek, HAL, history, Links, Movies, Reviews, Sci-fi, trailer, Webcomics, weekend, writing

Read more | Comments (0) | Sep 27, 2004