June 2004

Bear at Franklin Memorial!
Several of my classmakes from Respiratory Therapy school worked at Rocky Mount’s hospital – Franklin Memorial. A bear walked through wednesday… Scare highlights growing problem.

I had no idea they even had bears in that part of Virginia (Southwestern Virginia—near Roanoke).

Neat New Tool on Metafilter
Metafilter Network | artlung’s contacts. Sadly, I don’t know that many people on MeFi. Or do I?

Quaking in my boots
So today was a big quake. I live outside downtown, and this circa 1892 house shook pretty violently. I was surprised that nothing fell down – no pictures or books fell, and Leah and I have plenty of both on shelves and on the walls.

It was fun watching the news roll out. NPR had very little coverage, and the best news was provided to me via RSS and Atom feeds of the various bloggers on San Diego Bloggers—also some pals of mine on AIM were very useful – tossing around links. Also got news via web405 and websandiego—both are really mailing lists (aka ‘listservs’) ostensibly about web development—but when there’s a quake or a disaster—that’s the topic du jour.

There’s very little rationale for regional blogging, really. I mean, my whole interest in the internet is the ability to collapse space so that a person across the world and I can talk like we’re in the next room. But when something is happening in a particular region, you really want to hear from people who are in the thick of it. I certainly learned that when the fires hit last year and I talked about regionalism in blogs.

Since the blog has recently upgraded from b2 to wordpress, I was also able to use trackback to communcate with some of the blogs via san diego blog.

Lasting impact, zero. But it did give me an excuse to post to San Diego Blog. And it was neat to get instant man-in-the-street takes on it from all over San Diego.

Shake like a polaroid picture
San Diego Earthquake!, featuring instant coverage from numerous San Diego Bloggers.

My 10 Favorite Movies, circa 1997
(My friend Erin put together this listing, I just made it into HTML)

Alright … off the cuff … in no particular order …

• Stalag 17
• Star Wars *
• Lawrence of Arabia *
• Blade Runner *
• Treasure of Sierra Madre
• Citizen Kane
• Pulp Fiction
• Jaws
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Taxi Driver

Lab Upgrades
Minor changes to lab.artlung.com have been made. Still somewhat chaotic, but less so. Also, my Gallery script had been dead, but was rescued with help from http://www.archive.org/web/web.php.

Still feeling a bit snotty and sick. Backachey in particular.

More mundanities later.

Less Sick
Coughing less, mucous no longer yellow. Feeling better!

Whoa!
I just realized, after liking the song for a decade, that the lovely song L.A. County by Lyle Lovett is about a guy driving to L.A. to murder his ex—on her wedding day.

Shades of Kill Bill, I think.

New Header, Cowboy Joe
A new header, me in a cowboy hat, making some sort of funny face. I like that it makes me look like a smart alec.