Here’s a link to a good image of the Piri Reis map. For all you mystery-history buffs out there.
Month: April 2004
Chickens and Books
A couple of links I found interesting. First is to All Consuming, “a website that watches weblogs for books that they’re talking about, and displays the most popular ones on an hourly basis.” Kinda cool. The other is to an article on Kuro5hin titled “Raising the Humble Chicken,” which is kind of random but good.… Continue reading Chickens and Books
Bend blogger meetup?
Over on Jake’s site on a roundup of all the known Bend bloggers, the topic has come up in the comments on having a local blogger meetup. Time and place to be decided. I’d vote for one of the breweries. Any interest?
Blog & Order
Notable: Tonight’s episode of Law & Order: SVU marks the first time I’ve heard the term “blog” used on a TV show. Not just used, it was central to the plot.
Historic house
My drive home from work everyday takes me by an old brick house on Hawthorne Avenue, just out of downtown Bend on the entrance to the parkway. What’s notable about this house is that it’s obviously old—one of those old, pre-War homes that has ivy growing on it and just oozes atmosphere and looks like… Continue reading Historic house
Net Meme Threads
Inspired by Tim Bray: From We Interrupt This Broadcast by Joe Garner: The Potsdam communique arrived in Japan on July 27. Instructions: Grab the nearest book, open it to page 23, find the 5th sentence, and post its text along with these instructions, and point back to where you got the idea so that we… Continue reading Net Meme Threads
Some blog links
Some things I found interesting this morning. Via Technorati I found a link to my site from eugene.com‘s blog of the day archive; apparently my site was their blog of the day on November 16 last year. Neat! And from ORblogs I found a new blog from Portland: the Kenilworth-Abernathy neighborhood blog. Not only does… Continue reading Some blog links
Hellboy
Forgot to mention, I saw the movie Hellboy last Saturday, and had a few words about it. Really good. For a long time I’d heard about plans for a Hellboy movie and was really skeptical that anyone could make a good one, but when I started seeing the actual previews, I got excited about it.… Continue reading Hellboy
Weak 24
Maybe it’s just me, but I think this season of “24” is really weak, especially after last season. I thought this at the beginning of the season, and after Sunday night’s episode (and tonight’s follow-up), this weakness was just reiterated for me in spades. It just really smacks of bad writing, bad plotting. Jack Bauer… Continue reading Weak 24
A-Team Movie
Eric Rescorla speculates about casting for an A-Team movie (should someone in Hollywood ever get the urge to make one). Nice. But my first thought was, why not let the original actors play the roles? (They’d have to find somebody to take over Hannibal, of course.) Sure, it could be done, but that isn’t really… Continue reading A-Team Movie