Happy Halloween from wonderful friends!
This is the toy they brought our kitties. You’ll note it’s already starting to accumulate a second coat of Omar hair, as does everything in our house. I pulled a suit out of its cover today to match it with a shirt, and before I’d even moved it 2 feet to the shirts, it was covered in fine, grey hair. Fuzzy buttheads.
I was walking to the tree under which I sit between classes, when I chanced upon this spider. When I first noticed it, it was squatting happily above a large, desiccated grasshopper. I was standing close, and zooming in closer to get a good shot when the spider suddenly thrust out its legs, growing three times its original size and taking up my entire viewfinder for the half second before I leapt backwards.
Ok, I am going to try and take one picture a day as per the popular meme. We’ll see how it goes. Starting off the bunch with Audrey on her pillow. Cat pictures = official membership into Legion Of Bloggers.
UPDATE – Daily picture idea lasted all of about five days. For further pictures, please see my flickr account.
Unlikely Terrorists On No Fly List
A CBS 60 Minutes report on the “No Fly” list used in an attempt to screen out terrorists from passengers on airlines. They received a copy of the list from March, 2006 and noted, amongst other things:
So we end up with a massive, inaccurate list that hurts vastly more innocent travelers than terrorists. None of the original British suspects who have been charged with trying to blow up commercial planes are on the list.
This is the level of security we’re paying for. It’s a poor idea, mismanaged to the point of uselessness and extravagant costs. This is how the Bush administration consistently runs its so called war on terrorism.
Listamatic: one list, many options
Can you take a simple list and use different Cascading Style Sheets to create radically different list options? The Listamatic shows the power of CSS when applied to one simple list.
I ended up taking a web design class in addition to my full time MBA roster (re: tactically unwise). However, this puts me gleefully back in the land of CSS. I love CSS, for the thirty minutes it takes to make something beautiful and look at it in FireFox. Then I check it in IE and hate Microsoft, because their crap web browser can’t be bothered to support half the commands, so I have to go rip out all the cool stuff and leave a pile of cludgy hacks.
Estimated times for the disapperance of Man’s traces
A nifty picture that shows a projected timeline of how long human traces would last on Earth if all humans suddenly vanished (aka: were eaten by zombies).
