Two women talking in line in front of me this morning, while waiting to order breakfast. Presumably, they were discussing Michael Jackson's untimely death.
I feel really bad, because it kind of overshadows the whole Farrah Fawcett thing.
The National Weather Service office in Chahassen has issued a heat advisory for Hennepin and Ramsey Counties that is scheduled to be in effect from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m. Tuesday.Star Tribune
The heat index is expected to reach 95 by late Tuesday morning and rise as high as 100 to 105 degrees during the afternoon.
Temperatures are expected to be in the mid to upper 90s.
Lots of updates, lately, at leukemiasurvivor.com. I'm actually doing much more writing offline, and will continue to do so over the summer. Working toward an end-of-summer goal to have a finished manuscript ready to print.
InterfaceLift has posted some great images this week. Love me some DisplayFusion Pro, too, so I don’t have to decide which ones to use – just save to a directory on my PC and let them randomly rotate every hour.
A co-worker ordered some fresh Reese's a couple of months ago, and they were lights-out better than what you get from the corner store. Now they're getting ready to ship some Twizzlers. Do I need five pounds worth? Probably not. Doesn't mean I won't order some to share between friends, though...
So I’m going to give this tool a chance. Looks very promising, and very capable. I’ve grown less fond of MovableType’s UI for updating blog posts over the years, so now I can quickly (and easily) bypass that altogether. I very much like how easy it is to add images to posts – no FTP or file upload necessary. Just copy and paste.
Plus there are plenty of nifty effects available for images. Between a more robust text editor than Notepad (or even Notepad2), the ability to add multiple blogs to manage, future publishing dates, additional plugins, saving local drafts, and the better-than-average imaging tools, I think I might be sold.
Do-it-yourself emergency cufflinks: http://www.blog.ni9e.com/archives/2009/06/diy_emergency_c.html. Although I don’t wear french cuffs all that often, I like the suggestion. And they don’t look half bad. Reminds me of an idea one of my co-workers shared awhile back, to use paper clips as collar stays.
Looking at leveraging some new tools to make it much, much simpler to compose posts offline, and then publish them here (and elsewhere) whenever I want.
We're outside raking up some leaves, early November, and I'm wearing a tee-shirt and a favorite pair of faded and torn shorts that usually get put away for the season in early October. While I'm pushing the lawn mower back and forth across the yard (easier to vacuum up the leaves sometimes), the mercury is easily upwards of sixty degrees. Even decided to water the lawn a bit. Tomorrow's forecast approaches seventy. Unbelievably gorgeous weather that looks like it will hold up at least through Tuesday. Talk about Minnesota nice.
The election cycle would be that much more awesome if, instead of a third presidential debate, our candidates had a dance off.
Via Kottke.
Saw this awhile back. It becomes more interesting as more newspapers announce their endorsements. Not sure, ultimately, how influential an endorsement is from the local rag, but the deviations from historical data in this election is fascinating.
I think this must be why both MTV and the Internet were invented: to be able to watch countless videos from the eighties and nineties anytime, anywhere.
Earth From Above. Simply stunning.
Via Mark Hurst, a very good way to understand how the prices of American homes have changed over the last century.
Great post from Bruce Schneier on airport security.
There are two classes of contraband at airport security checkpoints: the class that will get you in trouble if you try to bring it on an airplane, and the class that will cheerily be taken away from you if you try to bring it on an airplane. This difference is important: Making security screeners confiscate anything from that second class is a waste of time. All it does is harm innocents; it doesn't stop terrorists at all.
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