Here’s some things I’m finding online this morning, along with thoughts from me.

• Just about the unsexiest thing ever said to a woman. [Davezilla.com – Excessive use of farce]
• I just passed 3000 posts to this blog. This is number 3002.

• Steve Zellers is discovering LambdaMOO. It feels kind of weird to see all this writing about MOO after all this time. I’m also a bit out of the know when it comes to MOO, but I know a lot of people who have done tons with it. Lambda doesn’t seem like the best place to start though.
• Tim Bray chimes in on RSS and the S-word.
• Scriptygoddess has a post about jumpstarting your photoblog.

Finally feeling all caught up with the weblog thing. I was down in CT so wasn’t able to do much blogging down there. Mom and Dad really need a high speed connection. I’m thinking of recommending DSL to them since they’ve already got the phoneline there. Plus, it would mean they could ditch the extra phone line.

Harry S Truman: “If you cannot convince them, confuse them.” [Quotes of the Day]

Lots of interesting discussion has been going on in the realm of RSS. Dave kicked things off, they bounced over to Sam for a bit and ended up with Ben. In the end it looks like there’s some decent discussion going on without too much BS. I’d like to add one thing as a general newbie to all this. Find something simple and document it well. One thing that has been the most frustrating to me is trying to find out about the pros and cons of 1.0 vs 2.0. From the little I’ve read about the idea of RSS for weblogs, it sounds like a step in the right direction. Maybe this means we can get past all the various wars that seem to go on about RSS. Or maybe they can at least become less frequent.

I like it when I see interaction between Dave and Evan and Ben and Mena. I’ve used all of their products and think they’re all great, and they’ve all worked well for me at different stages in my blogging experience. Now, if we can fold in some of the other people involved in the blogging scene too.

This is it, the last of the CDs. I can’t believe I made it through them all.

• John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
• Messages: Modern Synthpop Artists Cover OMD
• 10,000 Maniacs – The Wishing Chair
• 10,000 maniacs – In My Tribe
• ABC – How to be a Zillionaire
• ABC – Absolutely
• ABC – The Lexicon of Love
• Dot Allison – Afterglow
• Alpha Team – Speed (CD Single)
• The Art of Noise – (Who’s Afraid of) The Art of Noise
• The B-52’s – Wild Planet
• The Beat – Wha’ppen?
• The Beat – Special Beat Service
• Big Audio Dynamite – Planet BAD Greatest Hits

I can’t believe I’m really done. I stalled a whole bunch of times and now I’m re-ripping a bunch of stuff. But everything is in there. Wow.

The process that mirrors my posts to LiveJournal runs on my laptop, which has been offline all weekend. I just realized a moment ago that when I brought it back up on my home network it would suddenly post everything I’d posted since late Thursday night. So, as a result, when I got back online just now all those messages got sent to LJ. Hope you enjoy!

Posted without comment, but lots of chuckling.

Monkeys-s-s Typing Is-s a Mess-s-s

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ONDON, May 9 (AP) — Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare.

Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will make a mess.

Researchers at Plymouth University in England reported this week that monkeys left alone with a computer failed to produce a single word.

…

“Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard,” Mr. Phillips added. [New York Times]

I got some spam today that had something slightly new (at least to me). I’ve gotten spam before that was written like it was responding to something I’d sent. But this was the first time I’d seen one where they went to the effort of even including the email I supposedly sent.

Hi,
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this website where Lenders compete for your business.
I thought you may want to look at it.
here's the url
http://www.wuyi-best.com/3/index.asp?RefID=198478
Thanks,
Mike Finn

You wrote:
>hey man

> could you please give me that site where
> I can pay a whole bunch less, even on my
> mortgage repayments? my accountant
> said 6.1% was the way to go.

> thanks..

don't want anymore? then please go here.
http://gethelpu.com/Auto/index.htm

Damn, I must have requested that information the other night when I had too much cough syrup to drink.

Toshiba announced on Thursday they will be offering a combination DVD/TiVo device.

Las Vegas, NV, January 08, 2003 – Taking advantage of the recently announced licensing agreement between Toshiba, a primary developer and leader in DVD technology, and TiVo, the creator and leader of television services for digital video recording (DVR), Toshiba announced today that the company will be developing and launching the first product, a combination DVD/DVR product. This model will be the very first combination of DVD and TiVo technologies resulting from this partnership, with product scheduled for introduction in the second half of 2003. [Toshiba News vis Gizmodo]

It’s a pretty keen idea combining the two. Of course now I want the next step, which is one with a DVD burner built in. That way you can not only record our favorite shows, but archive them too. Though, i could see the networks getting all bent out of shape about that (even though it already has a save to VCR feature.

Antipixel got a great Word a Day:

teknonym (TEK-nuh-nim) noun: A name derived from a child’s name that is used to address a parent. For example, Johnsdad (as opposed to Johnson).

Now, I first liked the word because it sounds cool. Plus it starts with tekno, which made me think it might have to do with music at first. ^_^. But, more interesting was reading about how it applied to him.

Teknonymy elegantly solves an interesting problem in Japanese: when the father of a child is “Aoki-san” and the mother of a child is also “Aoki-san,” how do you refer to each when in the presence of both of them (in a language where first names are rarely used at this level of intimacy)? Spouses can use each other’s first names (they’ll also use teknonyms for each other when speaking to others) but for anyone else to do so would most often be presumptuous. Teknonymy — and A Word a Day — to the rescue. [Antipixel | blog | Teknonymy]

How very cool. Learning how various languages is fascinating to me, even if I seem to have a hard time picking them up. One of these days though I will learn Japanese.

Heath posted about Wil Wheaton’s new book titled Dancing Barefoot from Monolith Press. One thing I hadn’t realized is that Wil founded Monolith himself. I definitely want to pick up this book to check it out. I’ve enjoyed his blog for a while and have loved the look into his life that he’s provided.