HFCS: effika’s blog

First! A bit of advertising: If you enjoy well-written thoughts about things, you should go read my friend Sam’s blog over there in the sidebar. For those of you too lazy to get over there, here it is: http://diiq.blogspot.com/.
Second! This is my 800th blog post! Congrats to me for [...]

I really want to see Sunshine but no theaters nearby are playing it. :-/
I hope it comes nearby when it opens in the US in September.

Jay is currently ill again. I am getting slightly sick but I can’t tell if it’s allergies (which would explain my left eyelid trying to swell shut on Friday) or if I’m coming down with what he’s got. I’m trying to keep myself hydrated and vitamined and well-rested in defense. Doing a [...]

Death to the Extremist is on indefinite hiatus. :-(
Although I guess if the only thing bringing down my New Year’s Day is the end of a comic, I’ll be having a rather good day.
Goodbye DtE. You gave me 6 years of awesomeness.

And yet I’m going to write about some free samples I got in the mail!
I received a packet of Blue Ribbon Original Blend Seasoning, and a mini-bag of ACT II microwave popcorn (gotten from the Wal-Mart free sample site which unfortunately appears to be bare for the holidays). The seasoning suggested it worked well [...]

Sophie Swanson: Titular Heroine’s first episode, The Haiku Menance, is awesome.

Here’s an interesting NY Times article drawing parallels to Rome of 68 B.C. and the current state of the U.S. government.

In other news, I’ve been simultaneously busy and not busy. I’ve got some writer’s block, but hopefully that will end soon and I’ll be posting again.

Did you ever wonder how you can get something like

There are 2 posts in the last 30 days, and 323 total posts.

on your page somewhere?
Jason Clark has a nifty set of instructions on how to do it.

Some planetary astronomer “coined” the word pluton to describe objects that are like Pluto. This pissed off some geologists, for whom pluton describes a fundamental rock formation.
A geologist even wrote a nasty letter, accusing the IAU of “hijacking our perfectly good [definition] and causing endless confusion.”
The head of the Pluto committee said of the [...]

A cache of fossils in Australia holds strange animals.
From the article:

Prof Archer said the flesh-eating kangaroos did not look anything like their modern day cousins.
“They were galloping kangaroos, they didn’t hop,” he said.
“They were also far more muscly than the kangaroos we know, with sharp sabre-like incisors and powerful forelimbs to help rip and tear [...]

Construct a DOM map of a webpage with a nifty Java app.
Here’s what http://www.effika.net/blog/ looks like today!

The colors:

Blue: for links (the A tag)
Red: for tables (TABLE, TR and TD tags)
Green: for the DIV tag
Violet: for images (the IMG tag)
Yellow: for forms (FORM, INPUT, TEXTAREA, SELECT and OPTION tags)
Orange: for linebreaks and blockquotes (BR, P, and [...]

I have found a very nifty article about nuerogenesis, stress, depression, and Parkinson’s. Don’t let the big sciency word fool you– it’s very accessible. If you have any interest in understanding how the brain works, you will enjoy the article muchly.

Daniel freaks out on the Price is Right. I used to watch that show all the time when I was like 9. When Mom and I would go grocery shopping she’d get annoyed at me quoting all the MSRPs.
Make sure to check out the Jeopardy clip (”What is a ho, Alex?”) there as [...]

… Frozen Bubble. GET IT. NOW. That’s the link to the Win32 port, because if you use a *nix then you probably already know how fun it is. :-)
PS- Pat, as soon as I can get some batteries for my camera the pic will be up. Everybody, Pat has won the posting [...]

I’m worth $1,946,025.96! How much are you worth?

This is late, but it’s still an entry!
TV Shows on DVD.com is your friend. I got caught up browsing it and then it was late…
So many TV shows I feel I should own, but so much money that I do not have. Hmmm… I should make up an Amazon wishlist and just send [...]

Daily Show viewers more educated than O’Reilly Factor viewers.

Mailinator– Not want to give your real e-mail addy to a site, and don’t want to bother with yet another Yahoo sign-up? Use these dudes.
bugmenot.com– Login info available for lots of pesky sites that make you register to see their content. Get the browser extension– nothing’s better than having this site at your [...]

Remember the Mahna Mahna song from The Muppet Show? Apparently it’s from a softcore porn movie. :-)

But not appropriate for work. It’s pictures. Be Warned!
From Drew of toothpastefordinner.
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First, a smattering of what’s come across my browser tabs today:
That’s a camel, not a Caddy. The Car Domain site is very funny to browse around. Ugly cars abound. And of course you find the occaisonal funny page about camels.
I don’t work in anything but IE. Yes, some poor fool doesn’t [...]

The nerd in me enjoyed waaaay too much this article about coffee and gas chromatography from the American Chemical Society. GC-MS and other analytical chemistry techniques can be used to pick out the exact compounds giving your favorite brew its taste. If you’ve had a semester of gen-chem somewhere most of the article [...]

New title! I like it, I got if off a can of Cherry 7-Up. :-)
Rasmol, UC Berkeley enhanced version. This is a very nifty little program to view all those protiens you come across so often.
RCSB Protein Data Bank. Where to find all that nifty info to make pretty pictures in Rasmol.
Scene.org: [...]

Who is that with Jeremy?
This kid is probably the happiest baby I’ve ever seen.
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I don’t care if you normally do not find the comic strip Goats funny. YOU MUST READ TODAY’S COMIC.
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Lego Harpsichord. Yes, it’s playable.
Cool movie reviews at Bob and David.
8bit, the MUSH I play on.
And of course, the kid who plotted his own murder that’s been all over google today.
It’s 4 in the morning and I’m on the phone with Sean as I post. :-) Amazingly he is fairly coherent at this [...]

Penny Arcade as done by Japanese highschool students. Highly recommend.
YOU ARE FOLL!

The CNN article makes it sound like the people in my hometown are country bumpkins.
Sure, a lot of them are, but not everyone is like that.
Looks like one of the prospective jurors might be somebody I went to high school with.

Drew rocks.
Is it wrong that I find this so funny?