By anders pearson 17 Sep 2002
the <a href=”http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ui/accessibility/typeaheadfind.html”>type-ahead find</a> feature in <a href=”http://www.mozilla.org/releases/“>mozilla 1.2 alpha</a> has made me very happy. between that, ion, mutt and emacs, i almost never have to use the mouse anymore.
By Luke Shorty 16 Sep 2002
Warren Zevon has been diagnosed with terminal lung cancer.
I’m searching for a sentence to express my feelings elegantly, but I can’t. So instead I’ll say this:
THAT FUCKING BLOWS.
By quiet 13 Sep 2002
Check this out. Won first place in it’s category at a games demo contest. Pretty addictive.
By Mark Boudreau 11 Sep 2002
Here’s to everyone having a really boring and uneventful Sept. 11. I just wish the weather wasn’t so reminiscent of last year.
<p>Take care folks. Try not to let everything get you down or overly paranoid.</p> By anders pearson 03 Sep 2002
lani, me, and two of lani’s coworkers/roommates kim and yura, left DC friday afternoon. by dark we were at our campsite at jane’s island state park with out tents set up and a dinner fire started.
saturday morning we went into town and got some breakfast. then we wandered around, checked out “Meatland” and the docks. we also happened to be in the right place at the right time to catch some kind of parade. shriner’s in their mini cars, firetrucks, cheerleaders, the whole nine yards. we even saw “miss crustacean”.
went back to the park and tried our hands at crab fishing. apparently crabs are about the stupidest animals there are. to catch them, you just tie a chicken neck to a string, dip it in the water, wait for a crab to grab a hold of it and then pull them up into a waiting net. you don’t need hooks or traps; once they get a grip on the meat, they won’t let go. it sounds all too easy.
after about 2 minutes, lani and i had both pulled up crabs. they’re not kidding. it really is easy. unfortunately, they have to be over 5 1/4 inches. for the next hour or two, we caught dozens of small ones. eventually kim caught one that was 5 1/2 inches, battle-scarred and missing a claw. we ended up giving to some kids who were fishing next to us; one crab wasn’t really worth cooking.
we’d planned on staying till monday but on sunday it was raining and threatening to get even worse that night. so we packed up the tents and got ready to leave. naturally, as soon as the tents were down, the sun came out. so we put everything in the trunk, crabbed for a while longer and then went and rented some sea kayaks. lani and i never entirely figured out how to steer the two-person kayak, but we still had fun zig-zagging around the bay for a couple hours. afterwards, my arms felt like they were going to fall off, my hands were blistered and i had a sunburn on my nose.
went out to a local restaurant to finally get some crab since we hadn’t really been able to catch enough to eat ourselves. unfortunately, the restaurant we went to was out of whole crabs. so we had to settle for the “world’s best crabcake” and a pitcher of beer. slept in the back seat of the car for most of the ride home as it started really pouring.
when we got back to DC, lani took me out and showed me the <a href=”http://abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s663636.htm”>über vending machine</a>.
monday lani and i went to the Hirshhold gallery to check out some photography and the <a href=”http://www.artmolds.com/ali/halloffame/ron_muek.htm”>Ron Mueck</a> exhibit. then we walked to Vegetarian Soul Exodus for some vegan soul food. finally we met up with mark in dupont circle for some dessert.
By anders pearson 29 Aug 2002
off to DC tonight to go camping with lani and some assorted roommates out on chesapeake bay.
we plan on somehow catching some crabs or clams or something.
and of course, it is raining.
By lani 28 Aug 2002
did i ever tell you about the time i went to a Jason Webley aka ‘accordian man of red square fame’ concert at the Pearl Cafe, which involved paper mache vegetables on fire?
By anders pearson 27 Aug 2002
the freshmen have returned to campus.
for the next few weeks, it’ll be difficult to get around. when they first arrive on campus and don’t know anyone, they tend to form into groups with everyone in their freshmen center. and until they have full, busy schedules they all drift around campus in giant clumps.
By anders pearson 22 Aug 2002
tuck is currently in new york for a brief period before heading back to china.
<p>met up with him, julie, and a random assortment of danish and german folk at a german bar called Zum on 7th and ave C tonight. </p>
<p>we had a couple enormous $10 beers. they were huge and came in a big stein about the size of my head that you pretty much needed two hands to lift. i don’t remember what the beer was called but it is apparently the official beer of Munich. </p>
<p>we learned how to drink and toast in danish. it goes like: “<span class="caps">SKOAL</span>!! [rising tone] <span class="caps">SKOAL</span>!! [falling tone] [then you sing a little song in danish] <span class="caps">SKOAL</span>!! [rising tone] <span class="caps">SKOAL</span>!! [falling tone] [yell something really complex in danish really fast. then you finally drink]”</p>
<p>too complicated for me.</p>
<p>got thoroughly rained on on the way home. quite pleasant.</p> By anders pearson 22 Aug 2002
who says we don’t have fun at work…