Archive for November, 2004

Thanksgiving pics are up…

Sunday, November 28th, 2004

http://argus.emthree.org/gallery/Thanksgiving2004/

(also: some kicking sunset pics from Auburn, home of the most consistently beautiful sunsets I’ve ever seen)

…and a full Thanksgiving report/post is on the way. But I’m wiped out tonight, so you’ll just have to be patient. All seven of you.

Yet another red-blue map

Wednesday, November 24th, 2004

This is mad cool, and better than the other red-blue maps of the 2004 by-county election results that I’ve yet seen: http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/

UPDATE: Hattip to Preble for finding this even cooler red-blue site: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/

Dotting the i’s

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

This made me feel …tingly. I’m sure for the hardcore libertarians out there it’ll evoke downright foaming at the mouth: Government Uses Color Laser Printer Technology to Track Documents

“…for there were no more worlds to conquer.”

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004

Somebody, somehow, keeps clogging up the toilets here at work.

Now, as you recoil in horror at that thought and wonder why I would be so childish as to stoop to “potty-topics”, let me explain why I think this is blog-worthy. I do actually have some engineering thoughts on the whole thing. But getting there requires a bit of context.

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Friday pictures

Sunday, November 21st, 2004

…are up in the gallery. Soon to come: a select few from my all-nighter sunrise-at-work, and maybe a few from Saturday afternoon’s jaunt to Phipps Mall (Nay’s first visit there (!))