Via Andrew Jones.
Monday, January 28, 2008
Visualizing the Bible's connections
Check out this amazing image from Chris Harrison's Visualizing the Bible site. It's a visualization of the Bible passages that connect to one another. He describes it this way: "Different colors are used for various arc lengths, creating a rainbow like effect. The bar graph running along the bottom shows every chapter in the Bible and their respective lengths (in verses). Books alternate in color between white and light gray."
Via Andrew Jones.
Via Andrew Jones.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Ten Second Thoughts
1. The "We Are Siamese If You Please" scene in "Lady and the Tramp" perfectly illustrates my disdain for cats.
2. Today, with one long pull off a bottle, I became a Coke man. So long, Pepsi—we had some good times.
3. When your three year old is on the edge of flipping out again and asks through his tears to listen to "Santa Baby," you don't argue that it's January 25 and Christmas is over. You play the song.
4. As many times as he wants.
5. Super Mario Galaxy is the most fun I've had with a Mario game since SMB3 on the original NES.
6. Someone used my song lyrics as his away message... does that make me cool?
7. I just realized that Twitter is essentially Ten Second Thoughts for the entire Internet. You can follow me as "sjaustin" if you want to.
2. Today, with one long pull off a bottle, I became a Coke man. So long, Pepsi—we had some good times.
3. When your three year old is on the edge of flipping out again and asks through his tears to listen to "Santa Baby," you don't argue that it's January 25 and Christmas is over. You play the song.
4. As many times as he wants.
5. Super Mario Galaxy is the most fun I've had with a Mario game since SMB3 on the original NES.
6. Someone used my song lyrics as his away message... does that make me cool?
7. I just realized that Twitter is essentially Ten Second Thoughts for the entire Internet. You can follow me as "sjaustin" if you want to.
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Wednesday morning latte art
In happier news, I'm starting to get the hang of the new espresso machine my grandmother gave me for Christmas (thanks, Grandmom!):
I need to figure out how to reduce the foam created when steaming the milk. This was by far the best latte I've made yet, and it still has a little bit of that Starbucks cappu-latte feel. I'm getting there, though—and meanwhile, this one tasted really good.
I need to figure out how to reduce the foam created when steaming the milk. This was by far the best latte I've made yet, and it still has a little bit of that Starbucks cappu-latte feel. I'm getting there, though—and meanwhile, this one tasted really good.
My primary concern
New Hampshire dropped the ball last night.
I never had any serious hope that Ron Paul would win the presidency, but I did have a serious hope that he would generate enough momentum that libertarian ideals would permeate American politics a little more deeply. While I suppose that is still possible, it seems unlikely after last night's primary. With only 8% of the votes, Paul placed fourth in the pack, with a lower percentage than he got in Iowa. If he can't pull double digits in the most libertarian state in the union, I'm not sure what other damage he's going to do to the GiuliRomnAbee machine on the right.
Some blame could be directed at FOX News for refusing to allow Ron Paul to debate in New Hampshire, and some blame should probably go to The New Republic for a blatant eleventh hour smear job (check the comments for about 1200 rebuttals). But the reality is that the people who should have gotten out and voted clearly did not. And that's a shame—not because it would have gotten Paul any delegates, but because long-shot campaigns need momentum to build early. The opposite happened last night.
In other news, John McCain's success is somewhat encouraging, I suppose—I'd much rather see him on the ticket than any of the others—but it isn't nearly enough to wipe the taste of a Hillary victory out of my mouth. I would really love to see Obama nominated. Politics, pff.
I never had any serious hope that Ron Paul would win the presidency, but I did have a serious hope that he would generate enough momentum that libertarian ideals would permeate American politics a little more deeply. While I suppose that is still possible, it seems unlikely after last night's primary. With only 8% of the votes, Paul placed fourth in the pack, with a lower percentage than he got in Iowa. If he can't pull double digits in the most libertarian state in the union, I'm not sure what other damage he's going to do to the GiuliRomnAbee machine on the right.
Some blame could be directed at FOX News for refusing to allow Ron Paul to debate in New Hampshire, and some blame should probably go to The New Republic for a blatant eleventh hour smear job (check the comments for about 1200 rebuttals). But the reality is that the people who should have gotten out and voted clearly did not. And that's a shame—not because it would have gotten Paul any delegates, but because long-shot campaigns need momentum to build early. The opposite happened last night.
In other news, John McCain's success is somewhat encouraging, I suppose—I'd much rather see him on the ticket than any of the others—but it isn't nearly enough to wipe the taste of a Hillary victory out of my mouth. I would really love to see Obama nominated. Politics, pff.
Monday, January 07, 2008
Twenty
Thanks to a tip from Beams, I just found this out:
20
Oh, and hey, people at the website who gave me that code to embed the results on my site? I know just enough HTML to strip out the lame dating service ad you tagged onto the end of it. Jerks.
20
Oh, and hey, people at the website who gave me that code to embed the results on my site? I know just enough HTML to strip out the lame dating service ad you tagged onto the end of it. Jerks.
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