[2003/07/26]

→ spiderman is partially to blame (in a backwards kinda way), but it's pretty remarkable that sony's quarterly profit dropped 98%. yeah, that really says 98%: "Sony said Thursday it earned 1.1 billion yen in the first quarter of its fiscal year, down from 57.2 billion yen for the same period last year." of course, to be fair, "Sony officials acknowledge that fiscal 2002 profits were partly a fluke, bolstered by the blockbuster movie "Spider-Man." Sony's profits for the fiscal year ended March 31 totaled 115.5 billion yen, up more than sevenfold from 15.3 billion yen in fiscal 2001." | trackback 0

[2003/07/23]

→ the Port Authority has some rather unfortunate renovations planned for Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal at JFK. | trackback 0

[2003/07/21]

→ this statement by senator jeffords on his two year anniversary of leaving the GOP certainly speaks to my frustrations with bush. | trackback 0

[2003/07/17]

→ this story makes me nauseous: "Did senior Bush officials blow the cover of a US intelligence officer working covertly in a field of vital importance to national security--and break the law--in order to strike at a Bush administration critic and intimidate others" | trackback 0

→ this new sony clie palm looks excellent. | trackback 0

[2003/07/15]

→ more spam control efforts. this time from the EU. great approach, but, as acknowledged in the article, practically useless if the US and Asia don't have similar legislation. | trackback 0

[2003/07/10]

→ ok, let me get this straight: if i believe iraq did not have actual WMD, then it's my problem to explain why we're not finding any now? uh. . . "Presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer Wednesday put a new twist on the weapons issue, saying those thought there were no weapons had to explain their absence. 'I think the burden falls on those who think he didn't have them to explain when he destroyed them and why, after he destroyed them, he didn't tell anybody or show anybody,' he said." | trackback 0

[2003/07/09]

→ playing with ascii art again. | trackback 0

[2003/07/07]

→ oh boy. please tell me baby ink is a joke/hoax/fake (from mefi). | trackback 0

→ Jewel squids sound like bill the cat only ocean-bound: "Firstly they have wonky eyes, the left eye is always much larger than the right. In some species the left eye is telescopic while the smaller right eye is normal. These squids have a funny slant on life, literally. They hang at a 45° angle and use the huge eye to look up for passing prey. Meanwhile the normal eye looks below for any signs of attackers. The common name comes from the scattering of small iridescent spots over the undersides of the body, head and arms. These are tiny directional light organs like tiny car headlights. When the squid is hanging at a 45° angle, all the light organs aim down and produce just enough light to cancel out the silhouette of the squid against the weak light from the surface above. They can even adjust the lights for different depths or time of day. Jewel squids are able to float mid-water by filling their soft flesh with pockets of ammonia solution that is less dense than seawater and cancels out the weight of their muscles. They make these solutions out of their body wastes: urine is turned into buoyancy." (from mefi too) | trackback 0

→ politics seems to keep coming up this week. maybe cause it was the fourth of july. rather than fight it, let's peruse watchblog. | trackback 0

→ testing out a new tracker. | trackback 0

→ wow, check it out. check out who's linking to this page at technorati. er, uh. well, actually no one. i guess. | trackback 0

→ in the "creative" 404 pages department: i came across this amusing page on thus guy andy's page (which i randomly came across while googling "blogger comments.") no, i don't know andy. or his (i assume?) last name. | trackback 0

→ if you're interested in 28 days (as opposed to this one), take a peek (warning: there appear to be spoilers) at this review (from /.) by Harold Varmus, "president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, [who] shared a Nobel Prize for studies of cancer viruses." | trackback 0

[2003/07/06]

→ i lead climbed (trad) for the first time this weekend, borrowing mark's rack and lots of advice. i led two routes up at the gunks, a classic 5.5 named jackie on friday and a headgame 5.4 named no picnic on saturday. | trackback 0

[2003/07/03]

→ making some little tweaks here and there to the template. love the new "dano" engine for blogger, btw. clean, elegant, fast. even works with safari now. all good. added the archive links to left column. stuck an atomz search in. i think i have the robot instructions set for it and public engines to index the archives but not the main page (as that is always different by the time a search engine visitor visits). | trackback 0

→ qp sez no singles. | trackback 0

[2003/07/01]

→ hell, yeah. (skeets, we're talking about the skeet shooting, not huntin') | trackback 0

→ there are lame concepts, and then there are amazingly lame concepts. | trackback 0