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This is a thing about a train. Sent to you by Abulsme via Google Reader:via Gizmodo by Brian Lam on 12/26/09
Things you can do from here:
As we know it anyway…
(via Wil Wheaton) (via Oliver Willis)
WapiFlapi recently found and liked my Abulsme True Binary Time page. He then produced a Mac OS X Dashboard Widget of this binary clock. You can download it here. Woo!
Over the weekend (mostly while holding Alex overnight while he was sleeping and later while sitting with Amy while she did homework) I spent some time reworking a lot of the stuff in my personal dashboard. It is much better now than it was 24 hours ago. The main changes are:
Anyway, that is it for now. Enjoy my Self Quantified Self-Tracking Dashboard Thingymajig. [Edit 0:39 UTC for minor text corrections.] I have always of course been partial to my own True Binary Clock, but I recently came across another based on the same idea, but with pretty graphics (and sound!):
This is the Steampunk Binary Clock from ruinsofmorning.net. Very cool, although I’m not so hot on the idea of grouping all eight middle bits into “minutes”, I prefer counting each group of four bits seperately. Also of note at the same site, the HexClock, which is basically the same sort of thing again, but showing the same 16 bit version of time as four hexadecimal digits, which is actually quite nice. (He still groups the middle two bits though.) I would buy a physical version of my clock, or either of these two clocks in a heartbeat if someone was selling them. Very cool. [Edit 07:48 UTC to add the parenthetical statement and fix some punctuation.)  Earlier today we were turning around in a Staples parking lot, and all of a sudden I saw this rooster in the middle of the parking lot. It saw me too, and ran toward the car. It wanted to get in. When I tried to drive away, it would chase the car. It kept looking at me. I asked Brandy if I could let it in the car and take it home to live with us. But she said no. She is mean like that. She said the same thing a couple days ago about the squirrel that took advantage of the door we left open for Roscoe to come in and explore our kitchen. It was a cute squirrel. But Brandy didn’t like the notion of a squirrel in the house. So we couldn’t keep the squirrel either. Brandy is so mean. [Edits 23:36, 23:42 and 23:45 UTC to fix bad linebreaks] That was the first line after the canned greeting in a customer support email I just got from a company I shall not name. They were responding to a support request I’d put in, and they proceeded to ask for more information they needed to proceed. So it kind of makes sense in that context. But I found it very amusing. I think that phrase should probably be used much more often than it is and in many more contexts. |
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When a UK electric rail was disabled by the snow and cold, 100 passengers were left stranded. Until a Tornado came and whisked them home. That is, the steam engine named Tornado, built with 1940s tech. 
