Archive for November, 2009

Things to do in an Elevator: Video

Things to do in an elevator: Post 2, but with video.

Thankfulness Quotes

A great writeup of thankfulness quotes from Christian Personal Finance:

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”

— Albert Einstein

Thankfulness Quotes

Hope everyone had an thankful and amazing thanksgiving!

What cheers you up the most about thanksgiving?

Star Wars! Comics!

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Happy tie fighter… don’t see many of those anymore.

iChat and Photo Booth Effects

You can add some more effects, instead of the de facto Photo booth effects.

To do this: Download the installer from isimilies.free.fr

Hope you like them! There are some pretty cool effects.

Need some help with pi?

Calculate Pi with Frozen, yes, hotdogs.

How to Calculate Pi by Throwing Frozen Hot Dogs

Calculate pi using frozen hot dogs.

Throwing a pie in someone’s face is good. Throwing food at pi is better. Believe it or not, of all the countless ways to approximate the most prolific irrational number in the universe, there are none quite as interesting or as surprisingly satisfying as throwing perfectly good food around your kitchen. In fewer steps than it takes to circumscribe your house in a circle of baguettes, you, too, can easily add a slice of pi into your dinner menu tonight. The best part is…it really works!

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Being Thankful

Over two hundred years ago, a group of settlers fleeing religious persecution decided to set a new course for human history in a new frontier. Those early pioneers chose a rocky shoreline to establish their way of life. Centuries later, America continues to set the example of what can come from a free and hardworking people. We truly remain the shining city upon a hill that the colonial leader John Winthrop implored us to be.

What started as a small colony in the territory that would eventually become the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has progressed into the greatest and most prosperous nation in history. Americans remain the freest people on earth because of our cherished Constitution and the system of government it establishes.

We have so much to be thankful for. We should recognize especially the sacrifices made on our behalf by those in uniform. Thousands of Americans will be spending Thanksgiving overseas in combat zones in order to protect our liberty and way of life. We should give thanks to those who willingly put their lives on the line for the rest of us. Where would we be without them?

We are also thankful for what God has granted us. We are truly blessed in America with rich natural resources, plentiful energy sources, fertile land, beautiful cities, and the talented and industrious people we call “our fellow Americans.” We pray that God will continue to bless us.

In his farewell address to the nation, President Reagan reminded us that “all great change in America begins at the dinner table.” Thanksgiving is an opportunity to discuss where we are as a nation at this moment in our history and where we should be heading in order to remain prosperous and free. Take time to discuss these things with each other, and take time to teach the young people in your family about our nation’s history so that they may never forget all that we have to be proud of and thankful for.

Happy Thanksgiving!
~ Sarah Palin

via Sarah Palin’s Facebook Page

Free and fun art lessons

I just found some pretty cool and well-done video art tutorials.
You can check them out at Mike and Ralph’s Free and Fun Art Lessons.
Painting, being outdoor, and youtube, with being free all add up to great fun!

Pong WIN

Why work to succeed in pong? Just get it right the first time!

HTTP - The internet - and Teapots?!

Here’s something really interesting I found when helping my brother make a creative blog name… so he used 505 in the name which means scheme not supported (how the internet runs)… looking down the list I saw 418 defined as “I’m a teapot”.

Below is a part of the specification for how the underlying technology of webpages work:
————————–——————
Masinter Informational [Page 4]
RFC 2324 HTCPCP/1.0 1 April 1998
————————–————————–

In practice, most automated coffee pots cannot currently provide
additions.

2.3.2 418 I’m a teapot

Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error
code “418 I’m a teapot”. The resulting entity body MAY be short and
stout.

3. The “coffee” URI scheme

Because coffee is international, there are international coffee URI
schemes. All coffee URL schemes are written with URL encoding of the
UTF-8 encoding of the characters that spell the word for “coffee” in
any of 29 languages, following the conventions for
internationalization in URIs [URLI18N].

coffee-url = coffee-scheme “:” [ "//" host ]
["/" pot-designator ] ["?" additions-list ]

coffee-scheme = ( “koffie” ; Afrikaans, Dutch
| “q%C3%A6hv%C3%A6″ ; Azerbaijani
| “%D9%82%D9%87%D9%88%D8%A9″ ; Arabic
| “akeita” ; Basque
| “koffee” ; Bengali
| “kahva” ; Bosnian
| “kafe” ; Bulgarian, Czech
| “caf%C3%E8″ ; Catalan, French, Galician
| “%E5%92%96%E5%95%A1″ ; Chinese
| “kava” ; Croatian
| “k%C3%A1va ; Czech
| “kaffe” ; Danish, Norwegian, Swedish
| “coffee” ; English
| “kafo” ; Esperanto
| “kohv” ; Estonian
| “kahvi” ; Finnish
| “%4Baffee” ; German
| “%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%86%CE%AD” ; Greek
| “%E0%A4%95%E0%A5%8C%E0%A4%AB%E0%A5%80″ ; Hindi
| “%E3%82%B3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%92%E3%83%BC” ; Japanese
| “%EC%BB%A4%ED%94%BC” ; Korean
| “%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%84%D0%B5″ ; Russian
| “%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%B2%E0%B9%81%E0%B8%9F” ; Thai
)

pot-designator = “pot-” integer ; for machines with multiple pots
additions-list = #( addition )

When I was in high school, there was one rainy day when everyone seemed to be down. I spent my entire chemistry class making tiny greeting cards that said “=)” on the cover and “Be Happy” on the inside. After my class, I surreptitiously passed them to random people in the hallway. Three periods later, one of my cards was handed back to me by someone whom I didn’t know, who didn’t know that I had made them. MLIG.