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Monthly Archives October 2002

OH HOLY CRAP THIS IS HORRIB— waaaaaaiiiiiit a minute…

I’d like to take this moment to be (as far as I can tell) the first to point out that
8 March 2003
is a hoax or publicity stunt.
Scroll down and look at the photo of the fire-damaged negatives he retrieved from the camera.
Now wonder to yourself why there were developed negatives in a camera.
My favorite [...]

Posted 31 October 2002 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (10) °

Right, I *needed* more IRC.

I have a RIM Blackberry 957, a little always-connected PDA-and-pager combo that
work provides for on-call and entertainment value. They pay for flat-rate connectivity too, so I figure I might as well get some personal use out of it.
And what better personal use than being able to IRC from anywhere?
Unfortunately, it’s not directly connected to the [...]

Posted 31 October 2002 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (3) °

mendelcam.
(Best viewed during working hours, GMT-0500.)

Posted 31 October 2002 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (1) °

Googlism

Here’s my results from googlism. There were no results for ‘Rich Lafferty’.
mendel is now the most comprehensive package for the statistical analysis of oligogenic traits mendel is a wine store on ben mendel is the archetype of the scientist whose ideas are ahead of his time mendel is born mendel is currently licensing weathergard? genes [...]

Posted 22 October 2002 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (1) °

HEY I KNOW THAT GUY

Lookie! New default icon. And it’s even me! I’m so emo. I need new glasses, though. I dunno where to find a good pair here.
I was playing with a feature of my camera which is intended for taking pictures of whiteboards, and found that it does neat things when taking pictures of things which [...]

Posted 20 October 2002 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (3) °

ISP from hell.

So I’ve been fighting 6-12s latency and 80% packet loss from my ISP, the appropriately-named IStop. While waiting for packets to arrive, I decided to check out their network status page, and then I had to catch my breath from laughing so hard.
I was going to leave excerpts here, but you really need [...]

Posted 16 October 2002 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (4) °