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Chicago Museum Goodness
Amanda and I just got back last night from a long weekend trip up to Chicago. Headed up there Friday morning and hit the Shedd Aquarium, apparently oldest aquarium in the country (founded 75 years ago). Since we were planning on hitting lots of museums, we picked up “city passes” that include admission to a number of different sites in the area (if you see more than two of the six, I think you made out well).
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#define sedition
Pronunciation: si-‘di-sh&n Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin _sedition-, seditio, _literally, separation, from _se- _apart + _ition-, itio _act of going, from _ire _to go 1 : incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority [Source]
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Flickr
This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing. Pretty cool. Looks like flickr will let you upload 20M of photos per month, and makes the last 200 you’ve posted visible. Has assorted useful features such as tagging photos, controlling who can see photos, etc. Seems pretty cool. I might just use it some for more temporary stuff (ie stuff I don’t want to archive on the web forever and take up precious space on my webhost).
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Neat! Now maybe I can avoid those destroyers!
Ran across this site recently. Seems pretty cool. They’ve posted a copy of a declassified WWII US submarine manual (well, immediately following the war to be more exact), including scans of all the neat pictures/diagrams/etc and ocr’d text.
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Movies DB themed
Finally got around to integrating my movies page with the rest of the site. It’s definitely hacky at this point (made a custom wordpress page style containing most of the php code and simply created an empty page that uses that style), but at least it works. Still need to refine it some. I stripped out most of the db fields from getting displayed since I’m don’t have as much screen width to work with, but I should fine tune what I display.
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Oh happy days!
Just decided to go poking around the web to see if there was any news about a DVD release of Kenneth Branaugh’s Hamlet. Turns out there is! Warner Home Video is slated to release a 10th anniversary special edition DVD in 2006! Kick-ass!
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Heathens!
I hate stupid people. Amanda and I were enjoying a nice dinner at Nitaya Thai last night when this flock of heathens came in. I knew they were heathens because they promptly asked for a kids’ menu. Where do they think they were… Denny’s? Gets worse from there. When they find out there’s no kids’ menu, they’re youngest broodling has the nerve to confront the waitress with a loud, finger-quoted “what do you mean no kids’ menu?
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Apple/x86?
I’m a little late in posting this (ISCA ‘05 in Madison and all that rot), but in Steve Jobs’ keynote at Apple’s WWDC he dropped a bombshell… Apple’s dropping the PowerPC and switching to Intel/x86. Engadget has some analysis on the decision, but I guess it largely boils down to limitations they’ve experienced with the PowerPC platform. To recap, Motorola had been making all the PowerPC chips for Apple until their G5 schedule didn’t meet Apple’s needs.
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#define prostitot
A young girl dressed in hooker wear, a la Britney, Christina, etc. [Source]
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#define sorostitute
A physically attractive female who looks as if she may belong to a sorority, while at the same time being dressed like a complete slut. A true sorostitute would wear a low-cut halter top and a short, tight skirt in the middle of wintertime. [Source]