March 2004

Codename: “risk”
On this page: 5Cats.Org: Dr. T’s Mathematics Pages—my Statistics class, are scores for the test I took Friday. I got a 98 out of 100. Not bad, but clearly I missed out on some. And others in the class got some 100s.

I’ll do better next time.

Oh, the codename is so the instructor can communicate the scores anonymously.

But let’s dispense with the anonymity for this class.

More on Appleseed
Back in July of 2003, I wrote: “I watched some footage (abut 5 whole minutes) of a CG Appleseed movie that looked really cool. All action, mind you, but it looked great.”—this was from Comic-Con—now there’s a bit more, and it looks great—Appleseed Trailer, from apple.co.jp.

(quicktime japan site via the Ferreteer)

Quote Half-Remembered
There’s some quote about photography—something real snarky and i don’t recall it exactly—something like:

“Sure, a photograph is reality—as long as you don’t mind the perspective of a cyclops with an attention span less than a second”

Anyone out there know more about this quote? Who said it and how it’s phrased?

More San Diego Bloggers Stuff
Are you tired of me talking about San Diego Bloggers? Yes? Well, sorry. But, we’re 5 days into March and we already have 5 new blogs! And check out the Feeds and GeoData and such.

• 2004-03-04 Oso’s Blog (Atom)(RSS)(+)
• 2004-03-04 Wagner’s Weblog (RSS)
• 2004-03-02 karenika
• 2004-03-01 Chronic Listaholic (Atom)
• 2004-03-01 The Moderate Voice (Atom)

Also, folks who link to san diego bloggers or who sport badges now have better placement, the top row of blogs (below the ads) is all people who link.

The lower area is for the rest.

I think the SDB site is part of my fan/collector tendencies. But the neat thing is that I don’t need any “real estate” to collect San Diego Blogs.

Sassy Weighs In
The Insidious Culture of Non-Mandatory Overtime.

Read it.

And may I suggest: ITOvertime.

Food for thought, kids.

Geo Data for San Diego Bloggers
I’ve added some geodata to the San Diego Bloggers listing, these are from the ICBM and geo.position meta tags as recommended by geourl.org.

Perils of Public Photos
One peril of having photos of me all over the site is that I occasionally get people thinking they have seen me. Here’s an email I got tonight:

I’m sitting in Starbucks, and I think I’m looking at you. Or not? Let me know.

Sadly, it ain’t so. I’m doing homework and work and freelance work tonight.

Fixed Bebe
It looks like Cox.net screwed up my free webspace, so the large versions of the Bebe Ads * Advertisements * Advertising Photographs page are now hosted on my dot mac account.

Blog -> Online Radio (x24 hours/day)
radio vox populi: live from the commons

(via waxy)

Voting Machines Direct Experience
My day as an election judge in Baltimore County is a terrific essay from the point of view of an election machine critic who actually experiences how they are used. The take home message: he finds them still too opaque to be trusted, but learns a great deal about how elections are run at the citizen level.