Archive for April, 2005

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Toxic Health Spas? (sort of)

I found this over on boingboing:
Past tense health tech: radium baths, radon mine soaks

I guess people used to (and still do in some places) look to radiation and radon gas for health benefits. I remember when Lindsey and I bought our home a couple years back. There were all sorts of inspections you […]

Covered with grayish hair or pubescence

Hey, Dictionary.com said it; I didn’t. I finaly got Hoary installed on a few machines. I did the whole apt-get dist-upgrade on two machines, and a full blown install on the other. It’s nice that hibernation finally works in linux on my laptop. Suspend (both S1 and S3) crashes the whole […]

Birthday weekend excursion of interest

Here’s an old birthday post I found from last weekend:
Since my birthday is on a Monday this year, we decided to spend the weekend in Omaha doing all sorts of fun things. Our hotel has free 802.11g wifi, and the room came equipped with a CD player and accompanying “sleep CD”, a face mask, […]

For real?

I heard a Liger mentioned on the radio this morning. I thought it was a joke. Apparently it wasn’t. They’re pretty much my favorite animal.

An explosive combination

We made beer bread. Yes. Bread that tastes like Guiness. It’s particularly good with roast beef.

Picture time!

With the help of Picasa, I have finally uploaded some of the pictures I have been meaning to post. At long last, I have finally uploaded The Godzilla Pictures. Apparently a giant Godzilla-esque snow-elemental ate the Doc Farber statue.

Also, L and I took a tour of abandoned houses in the rural surroundings […]

Who knew?

The Mythbusters get their ballistics gell from Gelita USA, which is just a stone’s throw away in Sioux City. I’m picking some up tomorrow.

This is only the beginning

You should check out the May, 2005 issue of Linux Journal. Particularly page 90 where you will find an article written in part by yours truly. Along with two others from the bio group I helped write and edit an article describing our work at creating a sort of web portal to a […]