I’m not sure whether it being Friday the 13th or the day before Valentine’s Day is spookier, but if you’re looking for some fun this evening, the Auto Body Experience has announced that they’ll be playing Lee’s Liquor Lounge this evening.
I was thinking about Steph’s complaint about the cold this morning, and I kinda get it, but mostly I just think that it’s winter, and at least to a zeroth-order approximation, how cold it is doesn’t matter to me. Shoes, jeans, t-shirt and big winter jacket are enough even in the coldest weather, unless it’s real windy, too. Then I might pull out a hat and put something long-sleeved on under the jacket. Or if there’s a bunch of fresh snow to stomp through, I’ll put boots on my feet instead of tennis shoes. But mostly, I don’t even check the temperature before heading outside. From sometime in December until sometime in March, the outdoor attire doesn’t change all that much.
- Sayings with flowers – Apparently beyond being generally hopeless, men are no good at writing things on the cards that go with flowers. Good thing I don’t have to worry about that this year, eh? [press-patch]
- Battlestar Galactica Greenlit For Series. Another thing I’ll have to remind my TiVo about once it hits the air. Now a really useful thing would be a way to tell the TiVo that it’ll be coming and it should record it, but until the machine has hard data about a program (typically no more than 2 weeks in advance), you can only record by time and channel, so I’ve got plenty of chance to forget and miss the first episode. Update: Chaz reminds me that Mail to the Future is perfect to keep me from forgetting about Galactica. Duh. [boing boing]
- VeriSign Reconsiders Search Service that pissed everyone off last time they did it. Apparently we’ve gotten much more tolerant of them since last October. [fark!]
- Hmm. Lots of software displays Decompression bomb vulnerabilities. Say someone has taken a huge file of data that compresses really well, like hundreds of gigabytes of the same character over and over again. Say that someone compresses the file into a really small file and then emails it to you. How’s the software on your end going to respond? In many cases, not very well at all. [boing boing]
- From MobileWhack, here’s a reason to buy a Nokia cellphone if you dig Python. Cool. [boing boing]
- Twin Pushers and other Free Flight Oddities has some pretty cool rubber-band-powered model planes. Some even include plans so you could build your own. [jwz]
- Residents, businesses see crime increase around U, but it’s mostly vandalism on this side of the river. I guess I’m not really that worried about it, since my new house is in a less vandalism-prone neighborhood than the old one, so I’ve seen an improvement. Maybe that’ll change when the weather gets warmer, but for now, things are pretty quiet.
- Speaking of warmer times: according to the Northeaster, the packet boat running out of Boom Island Park will be run by the SkipperLiner Marine Group next year. That’ll be an interesting change. The boat should be similar to the LaCrosse Queen, and I’ll probably decide I have to go on a ride at least once.