the art of writing is discovering what you believe
This was made with a wooden box, a piece of thin plastic coated with an emulsion of gelatin and magic pixie dust (heck, I don’t know how they make color film), and a few seconds of time, maybe 30 . . . oh, and the experience and expertise of the guy who carried it all to that spot.
Expensive? Not really. Valuable? I’d say so.
Just checked AdSense and it looks like my recent increase in traffic (daily volume has doubled since July) means my daily ad revenue has tripled+ — from 15¢ to 50¢. At $15 and change per month, it’s not even covering bandwidth costs, but perhaps it does encourage me to try boiling some stuff that worksâ„¢ into readable prose. At this rate I may see a check by 2009.
from the Tale of Two Cities pool.
Seattle Parks & Recreation: Warren G. Magnuson Park – Public Arts :
NOAA ART WALK AND “SOUND GARDEN”
NOTE: Due to security concerns, access to NOAA and the Art Walk has been restricted. Photo ID is required to enter (such as a student ID, state driver’s license, etc.). All visitors must use NOAA’s main access road and stop at the security guard station for access. NOAA’s main gate is open Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Visitors can walk in (but cannot drive in) to Art Walk and Sound Garden. Backpacks will be searched; picnic baskets and other large containers are not allowed. NOAA’s back gate is open as well Monday-Friday, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., so visitors can pass between NOAA property and Magnuson Park. No access on weekends. For more information, contact NOAA site facility manager at (206) 526-6163 or view NOAA’s website at http://www.wrc.noaa.gov/
This just rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?
As counterintuitive as it may seem, this inexorably leads us to Kontra’s law:
A commercial company’s ability to innovate is inversely proportional to its proclivity to publicly release conceptual products.
[From Why Apple doesn’t do “Concept Products” « counternotions]
Actually, as the essay makes clear, it’s not counterintutive at all. How’s this?
A company’s willingness to invest in concepts that not designed for a real market underscores its inability to lead.
Looks like my venerable (Oct of 2003) iBook G4 is casters up for good and all. Some unusual freezing up yesterday, then a refusal to boot which continues, whether it be from a CD, from it’s own disk, whatever. It works fine in Target Disk mode, so that subset of features is still good. But as a full-fledged laptop? Not so much.
Oh, well. It’s on its third hard drive, second logic board, second case. I think everything has been replaced but the display and keyboard, including the batteries.
For about the same as I spent on that one, I could buy one of these:
If I had it.
Seeing a lot of junk that looks spammy, so this is a first cut at denying them whatever they are looking for.
#!/usr/local/bin/bash
cat /usr/local/www/data-dist/.htaccess.base > /usr/local/www/data-dist/.htaccess.tmp
grep "Successfully fetched" /var/log/httpd/httpd-error.log | awk '{ print $8 }' | cut -d"." -f1,2,3 | >> /usr/local/www/data-dist/.htaccess.dyn
sort -n /usr/local/www/data-dist/.htaccess.dyn | uniq | awk '{ print "Deny from "$1"." }' >> /usr/local/www/data-dist/.htaccess.tmp
cp /usr/local/www/data-dist/.htaccess.tmp /usr/local/www/data-dist/.htaccess