Found it thanks to Scoble and Search Engine Watch. Apparently NASA released a new version of their World Wind application, which includes views for the Moon!
Since I’m secretly hiding a Moon fetish from you guys, I had to play with it as soon as I found it. These screenshots certainly do my Moon globe justice…
There’s a great (and hilarious) blog called Go Flock Yourself over on Wordpress.com.
I have to say, that pretty much sums up my entire opinion of the browser too… I think the developers would have been better served creating extensions and plugins for Firefox to provide these tools. I mean, if nothing else, do we really need a second “Firefox” running around? Now we’re not just fighting IE, we’re fighting each other… Not a smart move from a marketing standpoint, if you ask me (but then I’m not a professional marketing douchebag either)…
And I say this blog is hilarious because I was scrolling down the front page just now reading, and this post made me actually spit coke out my nose when I randomly came across it… God does that burn!
Oh, and thanks to Craig (uhh, no, the other one… yeah, that one!) for pointing me to the Flock-hating goodness! While you’re deciding you really should listen to me and hate Flock, Craig has a very entertaining Flock The Engine story for you to read! ;)
So I was on my way home from work today. It’d been a pretty damn stressful day, as I tried to get everything wrapped up so I didn’t feel like I was leaving too many loose ends when I took Thursday and Friday off, so I was in and out on the drive home. After sitting in traffic at the ever-faithful 3-block-long backup that is the Pelham Road - Hudson Road / Patewood Drive intersection, I was ready to get home and be left alone for a while, if just to collect my thoughts before getting back to work.
20 minutes later, I’m two blocks away from home, sitting at the last traffic light I have to go through. I happen to glance up and see a dark green Miata coming down the street to the light on the opposite side of the intersection.
For one reason or another, I actually pay attention to who’s in the car. I quickly recognize the passenger… she’s the token hot chick that lives in our neighborhood: blonde, boobs, high school cheerleader… ‘nuff said, right? Upon further inspection, I realize I don’t recognize the driver, but he looks to be barely 16 and a typical prick that I’d hate, so I save time and go ahead and start hating him…
Just before the light changes, he takes a right on red and floors it to prove his manliness, to the point that I can hear the engine over the DMX that had come up in my iPod’s playlist. A split second later, the light turns green and I make my left, pulling out just behind him.
I have the windows about 1/4 of the way down, and quickly notice… a smell. It takes my brain a few seconds to process the smell and realize what it distinctly is: his clutch.
Another split second later, and I hear a loud *CRACK*, and daddy’s bright, shiny, 2-day-old-dealer-plates-wearing midlife crisis-mobile suddenly stops accelerating and drifts into a church parking lot and stops.
The look on that kid’s face was so priceless!
I hate rich pricks…
They decided to waste some time at work (what else is new, right?) and celebrate Halloween with pointless departmental competitions. Each department was to put up decorations, and each department got a pumpkin to decorate. At the end of the week, the winners got… something (I didn’t pay attention to what, because I knew we wouldn’t win).
Now of course we didn’t do any actual decorations, but (amazingly) we did come up with a rather ingenious (read: nerdy) idea for the pumpkin:
You know you love it! We modeled the whole thing after my 60gb iPod Photo. Our web guy, Matt, rev’ed up Photoshop and designed not only a click wheel to be taped on, but also a color screen, featuring… wait for it… the entire Systems department… as South Park characters.
I have to say, not only does our pure white pumpkin look good, but the South Park characters are going to make some kick ass tshirts!
I should be able to get some pictures from people next week when I get back to work, and I’ll be sure to post a few here. Oh, and please don’t sue us, Apple…
Where you look back on everything at the end of the day and feel like you’ve been totally and utterly unproductive?
I’ve had several of those in a row now. I’ve set out with x, y and z on my to-do list and for one reason or another, most (or none) of them have gotten accomplished. I look back on what I’ve done, and there have been a bunch of small tasks, or things like familiarizing myself with pieces of code, but I haven’t actually “accomplished” anything tangible.
I’ve got Thursday and Friday off, so I’ve got to buckle down and get some things done… I need to get some coding done on a new project I’m working on, I need to get some blogging done here, and I need to get back to Gordon from NewsGator (no Gordon, I haven’t forgotten about you!) since it’s now been over a week since I told him I’d try and get him more detail about my problems the next morning.
To top it all off, I had to force myself away from the keyboard when I started writing an email to Ian (the Openomy guy) offering to write a PHP interaction class for the Openomy API… I guess there comes a point at which you just have to draw the line and start turning down projects, even if you think they’d be really cool and beneficial.
Who knows, if no one else has stepped up to the Openomy API-plate, maybe I’ll still slap something together… next month.
Maybe now’s the time to hire a secretary…