Post coming later tonight or tomorrow morning with full story and link to pictures (and hopefully video, too) if I can not have Aperture fight me tooth and nail with every adjustment. My computer is showing its age (read: ancient) and Apple is making things harder on us G5-owning folk with each passing upgrade.
I know fighting with a photo management program shouldn’t be a good excuse to delay an otherwise-completed blog post, but I’m a perfectionist that way. I just wanted to make sure everyone knew that things are fine, both in person and overall with house, etc. It struck me that although I said “check the twitter status on the right,” 1) not everyone will, 2) ppl read this through feeds and don’t have “a right” sidebar with my updates, and 3) ever since yesterday afternoon, the last tweets have long scrolled off with my personal status, so it wouldn’t help much unless you went to see for yourself.
It’s for you, dear reader, that I put up this placeholder, so please don’t be too hard on me for taking an extra day to make things “just so” for ya. ;) Thanks for checking in!
Well, I figure I should get a post about Hurricane Dolly out there before we lose power for a while–an inevitability around here as of late even with non-newsworthy thunderstorms. Over the last few days, I’ve been tracking the various computer models of where the storm was going, and there has been striking concordance with the various predictions:
As of this writing, the storm is just about to make official landfall. The radar, with my position tagged, looks like this:
Anyway, just a quick note to have something here for posterity. Power and/or internet will surely go out, but as long as I have both, I’m checking various radar sources regularly. I also have my Blackberry and probably will Twitter things from time to time, so check the sidebar. I had ideas of doing a Qik-like live storm feed, but I value being dry and not having various debris missiles whacking me in the head (not to mention ruining said electronic equipment). Who knows…I might still venture out and get some footage, but I can promise it will be shared after-the-fact.
Pressing “Publish” and hoping for the best!
(quick update: I can’t seem to separate the images and flow with the text the way I want, so sorry about that if it still looks wonky. I’m HTML/CSS challenged more than usual today)
Who better than Gruntdoc, one of the medblogosphere’s oldest (and I mean that as in “stately” and “learned” hehe) and most respected bloggers, to host the 200th anniversary edition of Grand Rounds! Is it flashy? Is it full of Web 2.0, AJAX-y, or Flash animation goodness? Hell no, cuz that’s just not the way Gruntdoc rolls. Short, sweet and to the point–we need editions like these just as much as the envelope-pushing ones, and if I do say so myself, completely apropos for the nostalgia of the first ever 6-peat host.
Congrats from a fellow proud Texan!
The other day, registrars began opening up domain registrations to .me TLDs. I became aware of this because Beth at PixelRN had a quandary about a domain she was trying to register and the TLD .me obviously caught my eye. From what I can gather, tons of .me domains are being snagged by the hour at premium prices. GoDaddy and other registrars are reportedly screwing the pooch either because of higher-than-expected demand or because there has been too much bullshit with front-running where searches basically ‘tip off’ a registrar (and, in my conspiracy-theory-addled brain, an elite group of insider clients who will snag it in the precious waiting period while one decides if they want it or not).
I probably won’t get one, but in complete boredom I wondered what kind of games could be played with to see what domains could be listed. Here is a Perl one-liner from a shell CLI querying the UNIX (in this case, Mac OSX) generic words flat-file database. (another common location for this file would be /usr/dict/words):
enrico@AppleCore:~$ perl -ne ‘if (/^(.*)me$/) \
{ print “$1me ($1.me)\n”; }’ /usr/share/dict/words
abrocome (abroco.me)
absume (absu.me)
academe (acade.me)
acetoxime (acetoxi.me)
achime (achi.me)
acme (ac.me)
acrodrome (acrodro.me)
acrosome (acroso.me)
actiniochrome (actiniochro.me)
actinodrome (actinodro.me)
actinosome (actinoso.me)
actinostome (actinosto.me)
adarme (adar.me)
adenochrome (adenochro.me)
adenomatome (adenomato.me)
adenotome (adenoto.me)
adrenochrome (adrenochro.me)
adventuresome (adventureso.me)
aerodrome (aerodro.me)
aflame (afla.me)
aforetime (aforeti.me)
afterchrome (afterchro.me)
aftercome (afterco.me)
afterfame (afterfa.me)
aftergame (afterga.me)
afterlifetime (afterlifeti.me)
aftertime (afterti.me)
agname (agna.me)
agoranome (agorano.me)
agronome (agrono.me)
airdrome (airdro.me)
airframe (airfra.me)
Akhlame (Akhla.me)
aldime (aldi.me)
aldoxime (aldoxi.me)
allosome (alloso.me)
alme (al.me)
ame (a.me)
amidoxime (amidoxi.me)
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I know I haven’ t been good about posting GR updates, but there’s no time like the present with The Blog That Ate Manhattan (TBTAM)’s Seinfeld edition of this week’s best of the medical blogosphere. Check it out!
Happy Birthday America! I wish I could get you a present you’d like, but all I could afford was this stupid card. Besides, what do you get such a refined, stately woman past 230 who pretty much has everything? (rumor has it you are far, far older, but I don’t think you look a day over 150)
Many lament what’s become of you in recent years, abused by caretakers with little conscience. While I, too find your recent treatment deplorable, I trust the situation will get much better soon. Besides, you’ve been through far worse before, and you’re still here.
And God pray, you always will be. Happy Birthday.
Today is Canada Day! And in honor of a blog friend (to whom I won’t link so there’s no inappropriate association, but s/he knows who s/he is) I post this funny (language NSFW) to celebrate along with:
Obviously, this is from South Park, but this time Canada strikes back! You hear that, buddy? Oh, I’m not your buddy, friend? Well, OK buddy.
Believe it or not, YouTube was full of bum links for this, and obviously the copyright bots are out in full force for something like South Park, so this is my own copy and is being hosted locally. I’ll keep this post up for a day or so then consider taking it down before the lawyers start sending C&D letters. Happy Canada Day!
In the News, Personal | enrico | 
July 25, 2008 9:53 pm | 
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