Let’s hear it for the Squid People! Fans of all things invertebrate! Martin Wisse is a squid fan or at least a family member is. And PZ Meyers at Pharyngula, my favorite BioMan, points to a great video that gives one pause when expressing a wish to meet a live Architeuthis Dux or Architeuthis Colossal in person someday.
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Festival of Nations
A storm blew in tonight and took with it the heat that has oppressed our state. We have broken records right and left, including a heat index of 121 degrees on Saturday, and several days straight with over 100 degree real temperatures. Now I can go outside, and I need to as my daily level […]
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Sponsoring squid people
Danny Ayers posted a note about funds and looking for work, sponsorship, or patronage. Since RSS is the new ‘hot’ thing and people are throwing around money as long as whatever technology being funded has “…and RSS” attached to it, Danny has to be a hot property right now. He recently wrote a book on syndication feeds, […]
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Pridefest
Today’s outing to the St. Louis PrideFest 2005 parade did not begin auspiciously–we were hit from behind by a lady driving an SUV. Luckily my roommate, who was giving me a lift, drives a larger van and we could drive away after the insurance cards were exchanged. (I hate the sensations of a car wreck: […]
Recovered from Wayback Machine. Mark Woodman did a nice interview with Danny Ayers on life, love, corner offices overlooking chicken coops, and cats. Weeellll, not really. The focus of the interview was Danny’s steadfast work with XML, RDF, Atom, and his new book, Beginning RSS and Atom (an excellent book, by the way, and rich […]