Smorgasborg

This is a bunch of stuff I had no idea what to do with. So I put them on the dang web!

Email I received a long while ago:

Smorgasborg is spelled smörgåsbord
if you refer to a buffet in swedish.
(smörgås is a sandwich and bord a table in swedish)

That's all i had to say apart from:
nice website!

Peter Hammar

My reply:
I know it's misspelled. I like it that way. This is actually a Frequently Asked Question:-) But thanks!
- Joe

In May 2003 Andreas Brantmo asked me if I knew how to pronounce smorgasbord. I replied that Merriam Webster has a pronunciation, and is that good enough?

He replied:
Well, it's good - but not good enough though :)
As a sign of friendship between us I send you the CORRECT pronunciation to avoid any future problems ;)
Explanation:
Smörgås = Sandwich
Bord = Table
AND
Smör = Butter
Gås = Goose (bird)

So in English it would be "Sandwich Table" or "Butter Goose Table".

Cyberpunk Stuff
Bruce Sterling print articles I've been meaning to look up [Apr 13 1999]
William Gibson: National Public Radio: Fresh Air: February 1989 / Also a picture of Gibson from a signing/reading I found in the late 1990's on alt.cyberpunk.
Online conference with William Gibson / May 18, 1995 / AOL-WIRED
In The Beginning Was The Command Line by Neal Stephenson - Mirror Site
Bruce Sterling's Guide to Science Fiction Foibles [Apr 13 1999]

Silly
Star Wars Song Book: Imperial Rhapsody [1999]
Star Wars Song Book: Y.O.D.A
HOW TO TICK PEOPLE OFF [Apr 13 1999]
Threatening Anti-spam sig. [Aug 12 2000]
Why do visitors return to a website? [Apr 13 1999]
W & E. Newman :: Separated at Birth? [May 22 2001]
Is there a Santa? (from an engineering standpoint) [Dec 1 2002]

ArtLung Logo PDF file [Apr 1999]
On a Macintosh, command-shift-option-delete to boot from the SCSI chain
Some Browser Stats provided by a mailing list [Apr 13 1999]
How to Say Merry Christmas in Many Languages [Jul 12 1999]
Invention of C++ [Jul 27 1999]
ArtLung Portfolio Navigation / Abandoned Strategy 0
Girlfriend 1.0 [Apr 13 1999]
Mac Java URLs [Jul 12 1999]
A cool MicroSoft banner ad ... so cool I saved it. [Apr 13 1999]
Download Speeds / Times (Based on C|Net Numbers) [Apr 13 1999]

Unixism: htpasswd -c .htpasswd userNametoAdd
MacPerl script for logging into RoadRunner [Mar 22 1999]
This is the log from my 1st attempt at getting Linux to run on my Mac IIci [Mar 25 1999]
Cuban Clip Art (the Crest of Cuba)
Major Search Engines
Flame Response Form [Nov 10 1999]

Lyrics, transcribed
Kid Charlemagne Lyrics (t. 1999)
Once Upon a Time (Zappa/Sofa Lyrics / YCDTOSA #1) (t.1999)
Lyrics to Boomin' Granny by the Beastie Boys
Come On Over - Sunship Vocal Mix - Christina Aguilera [Lyrics] (t. 2001)
So Pure - Alanis Morisette Lyrics (t. 2001)
Yeh Yeh [Lyrics] / TMBG from Mink Car (t. 2001)
Let Forever Be - Chemical Brothers - Lyrics
Laugh And Be Happy (Lyrics) / Randy Newman (t. 2003)

Sounds
How does Linus Torvalds say "Linux"? - see here (82k WAV file)
Boomhauer Internet WAV file [Apr 13 1999]

Link Lists
Various URLs of folks not necessarily part of the Digital Coast
San Diego Various URLs
Some Random Links from the Flasher List from Summer 1999
Babble List | HighFive | Cool URLs [Nov 23 1999]
Quixtar/Amway URLs
San Diego Area Technology Links
San Diego Various URLs - 2000 Edition
Video (Lyrics) / India Irie [Apr 22 2002]

HTML vs. TEXT EMAIL:
Actual spam in HTML via MS Word versus the same thing in plaintext. The HTML version is 16.0 kilobytes. The Text version is 2.0 kilobytes. That's a factor of 8 times the size. If your bandwidth stays constant, HTML mail means a factor of 8 increase in download times. No thanks!

Nice Flat Projection Map Clip Art from MacOS
Web Skills PDF 08-27-1999
Need some greek text?
Notes on the unix "tar" command
Builder Live 1999 - My notes from various things
Good Internet Publications -- compiled from suggestions on WebSanDiego.org [Feb 7 2001]
Redirect in Perl:
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "location: http://www.php.net\n\n";

Recipes
Macaroni Salad Recipe [Feb 8 2000]

I've been purchased! Eeek! [Jun 5 1999]
I should have figured I should leave my employment at ARCO when Greenpeace hung a banner on the outside of the ARCO Tower in Downtown Los Angeles.
High Resolution black and white WebSanDiego.org Logo [Nov 2 2002]
In May of 2001 I made a copy and redesigned the KPBS Radio station's schedule. I think the result is pretty.

July 4 2003 - Joe's Walk [Oct 6 2003]
Brett Jackson's special images made (March 2003) in exchange for building an XML page in ASP: Joe's Decision, Joe [Oct 6 2003]
Some Talking Heads Stuff from Japan from the late 1980s: Article; Naked Article; True Stories Ad [Oct 6 2003]
Movie Faves from June 30, 1997 - the missewon crew [Jun 15 2004]

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