An update on the car situation:
Late last week the engine started misfiring, so I made an appointment
to take it in today. One cylinder was having problems even when its
spark plug was swapped with a good cylinder’s, which meant replacing
the ignition cassette, which is what a Saab uses instead of a coil
and distributor — it’s essentially [...]
So Apple introduced the new form factor of the new iMac. They describe it as futuristic,
but I think they’ve confused the future with a 1999 dot-com:
I don’t get it. Apple’s designs have been clunky before, but they’re
usually appropriately derivative — “It’s shaped like a TV”! “It recalls
a desk lamp!”. But “It looks like a computer” [...]
So I’m thinking about starting flying lessons again. I’ve set up a
separate blog for my flying stuff, partly to play with Wordpress and
partly because it’ll be sufficiently topical to need its own space.
The blog is here, and you
can add it to your friends page as Mendel_flies. I’ll be
posting about how things are going lesson by [...]
Anyone seen the
lobsters? I can’t find them anywhere.
I remember playing with the POVray
3d graphics tool a few years ago, but I never managed to get past
teapots on checkerboards.
Others have done
better.
This writeup from Eric Rescorla (which he also posted to the NANOG mailing list) is a great summary
of the implications of the recent discoveries of
collisions or weaknesses in the SHA-0 and MD5 cryptographic hash algorithms.
I am annoyed with my car (a 1999 Saab 9-3, for those just tuning in).
For a long time it’s had a wobble in the steering wheel and in the seat,
even through multiple balancings and road-force balancings and lining up
runout with the low spot on the wheel and all that. Could’ve been being
rear-ended a couple years [...]
Earlier today a friend of mine and I were reciting bits of what might
someday be known as one of the finest and most profound bits of poetry
reading recorded (provided that the rest of the recordings were
destroyed and forgotten), and were disappointed that the work didn’t
appear to be transcribed anywhere on the Web. So, for the [...]
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