This site is loaded with a pile of freeware fonts that every designer should have. And if you could only have six fonts to buy, here’s what some designers would purchase.
Month: June 2005
Man, This Pizza Tastes Like Crap
Litterally. Thanks Dren for the link.
Need Help Wiping Up After Your Bathroom Trip?
If you have difficulties cleaning up after your toilet usage, this tool might be of use.
Speaking of toilets, here’s one that will fit into every house.
Update at 9:45: Finally getting through some of my RSS feeds, and came across these really fancy urinals.
Create A Wiki with Four Lines of Code?
SigWik is a Wiki that only has four lines of source code. Other programming fanatics have created 12 others that are all under 50 lines of code (in languages such as Perl, Ruby, PHP, Java, and Python). Jon, who posted the above links, was inspired a bit, and created his own Wiki software. It’s 58-lines, and actually readable, but still bloat-ware compared to the other stuff. If he removed all the unnecessary white-space, got rid of the XHTML output (made it straight HTML 4.0), didn’t do any sort of error checking or closing of files, used some shorthand PHP, removed comments, removed the “php” from “<?php”, and basically made his code totally unreadable, I think he could make it well under 50 lines and get himself listed on the above site.
Finally Saw Episode III
Went out last night, finally saw Episode III with my wife. It was by far the best of the prequels, and I agree with everything Jon said (spoiler warning) — we really needed more wookie action.
Now that you’ve watched the latest (and final) Star Wars, make sure you go watch Store Wars (thanks Simone for that).
Bend Drivers Are Dumb
Actually, it’s mostly the tourists driving through Bend that are dumb, but since so many people come and live here to die, there is a fair share of geriatric problems as well. But these are some good ones, actually published by our local chamber:
“I work with a view of a roundabout, so I have seen plenty of stupid moves. The worst is when people drive around in the wrong direction and/or stop midway through as they try and figure out where to go.”
“Going as fast as humanly possible around the traffic circles is a pet peeve of mind. If people would just drive 15-20 mph as posted, and actually use their turn signals to indicate leaving the circle, these darn things just might work as designed.”
“One of the dumbest driving blunders I have seen here was downtown. Heading west on Franklin, the Mercedes in front of me turned right onto Wall Street. It continued on up Wall at a decent pace, with all the oncoming traffic scrambling to the left. I think the Mercedes even honked a few times at “the crazy drivers.”
And finally, this from a law enforcement officer who shall remain anonymous: “Many, many years ago I investigated an accident wherein the male driver had been receiving close personal contact from a female passenger. His distraction caused him to drive off the road and into a telephone pole, thereby causing a significant injury from issues other than the car. When questioned later in the hospital, he said, ‘I guess that was pretty stupid, huh?’ I did not respond. I did have a hard time maintaining a professional demeanor.”
The worst I’ve seen around here typically happens out here in Sunriver. We always get people who will just stop at random in the middle of the road, get their map out, and start trying to figure out where they are (they won’t bother to pull over). We frequently have people going the wrong way around the Sunriver circles (which is actually fairly difficult on some of the circles out here, but it still happens).
“Oh Yeah, It Had To Be Done Yesterday…”
That’s been the story of my life today, which is why I haven’t had a chance to post any links today. I was on the phone or slammed in a *nix command line, install/reinstalling/configuring/bulldozing my Smoothwall setup. It’s working damn skippy now, and I’ve managed to get a dedicated cable modem from the cable company here (I was borrowing one from one of our houses that was unoccupied), so now it’s off to start configuring the desktops I’ve purchased.
But before that can happen, I’ve just been given word that a full-page ad we have running in the Sunriver Scene (the local monthly newspaper which has one of the most entertaining police blotters out there) has to be updated for the next issue. The deadline? Tomorrow morning. Luckily I know the person laying out the pages there, and I know I have an additional day if I need it.
Thankfully, I finally am getting a break tonight: I’m finally going to go see Episode III. Assuming I can stay up, as I’m frickin’ exhausted.
Smoothwall Kicks Ass
I mentioned Smoothwall nearly two years ago now, and have finally had the chance to put the thing into action (as I already have established firewalls at the other places I’m in charge of). They’re building a big fancy fitness center here in Sunriver, and since our company is one of the owners of the place, I’ve been put in charge of getting the network and computers and such all up and running. The place is also going to have a public access wireless network, and I don’t want that wireless network to have any access to the private wired network, and I also want to make sure that I could give bandwidth priority to the folks on the wired network. So with some help from the folks on the Smoothwall forums, a bunch of modifications and hacks, this firewall will be up and running shortly. So if anybody hasn’t tried out Smoothwall, you’re really missing out.
I just got our desktop computers, too (along with my 26-port switch), so I’ll have to tear those open and start ripping some stuff up. Granted, the building’s not done yet (they haven’t finished terminating and patching off the wiring closet, for example), but I’m just trying to get all my ducks in a row so that when the thing is up and going, I can go down there, plug in everything, and they’re good to go.