Wednesday, February 23, 2000

Wired on weblogging.> Just found this link to an interesting site on Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but then realized that Tracy at Ouch! had a link to it from her main page. Doh! We've got one humdinger of a storm outside now. The rain is shooting down at what looks like a thirty degree angle, small pieces of hail are crashing into my window too, and now the electrical power lines across the street have been hit by lightening. I didn't see the wires get hit, but I was on the telephone when suddenly the room filled with a bright light, and before I could even react a thunderclap like a ten-ton truck crashing into the ground reverberated through the house! All this, and I'm in central California! Give me earthquakes over this anyday!> Astronauts had sex on the American space shuttle - with the full blessing of NASA bosses. via Drudge The Matrix script After watching Annie Hall the other day, I realized that I was living a life just like Annie's family: away from all the Jews. Now that I've found YudelLine: One Jew's news and views, I don't feel like such a bumpkin anymore.> distributed.net suspended the ORG-24 project because of a bug in the code. (Damn, I hate wasting a week of computer time.) Clients that are currently working on OGR will revert back to RC5 the next time they connect to the network. via Slashdot Quicktime Mission to Mars movie trailer (I don't think that this has any major spoilers)> The March 2000 issue of Scientific American is chock full of articles dealing with travel to Mars: Why Go to Mars?, How to Go to Mars, The Mars Direct Plan, To Mars by Way of Its Moons and A Bus between the Planets. Many of the technical aspects of a human mission to Mars are detailed in this report at . Man, Vavatch Orbital really got me in a Mars mood.> Do you support the human exploration of Mars? If yes, sign The Mars Petition.