Day: December 27, 2004

While preparing for her own wedding, a dear friend stumbled upon examples of
strange, odd, and unflattering wedding accessories. She kept the strangest of the lot,
and I am presenting them here, along with her comments.

A fun and easy way to get your message out to thousands, even millions of people, is through the medium of talk radio. Although firmly in the trenches of the right, it’s still possible to get a liberal point of view onto the airwaves by following these easy steps:

1) When the screener asks you what you want to talk about, be sure and tell them something relatively innocuous but tangentially relatable to the point you want to make.

2) If possible, use a slightly southern or hick accent – they’re more likely to put you on and the AM audience is more likely to relate to you.

3) Don’t go straight to your main point – get there incrementally. Remember there’s a seven-second delay and they’ll cut you off if you go too far or get there too fast.

Its hard enough getting over someone. When she leaves you in excess of 50 psychotic voicemails, it makes it even harder. So, lets have some fun getting over her by starting a web site. I hope you enjoy my personal pain as much as my friends have.

The following is a lengthy list of deviations to be found when comparing the text of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien and the translation of those texts to film as undertaken by Peter Jackson, et.al. Take note, I’m not paying attention to omissions on Jackson’s part (i.e. the obvious: Bombadil, the Barrowdowns, etc.; nor the less obvious, how the party ended up with Bill the pony or the arrows bouncing off Frodo’s mithril shirt as the party flees the Terror at the Bridge of Khazad-dum).

MIThril is a next-generation wearables research platform developed by researchers at the MIT Media Lab. The goal of the MIThril project is the development and prototyping of new techniques of human-computer interaction for body-worn applications. Through the application of human factors, machine learning, hardware engineering, and software engineering, the MIThril team is constructing a new kind of computing environment and developing prototype applications for health, communications, and just-in-time information delivery.