Spark, Bang, Buzz and other Good Stuff is a web site with many electronics projects that can be made with around the house components.
Pretty cool stuff.
Old Disneyland Photos
This site is a collection of old Disneyland Photos from the 1950s and 1960s.
Things looked so much more innocent then.
ImaginaryWorld Disneyland tour
Absolutely Astounding
This is amazing. JWZ blogged about this amazing puppet parade in France. “This Thursday, May 19, a rocket landed on the square of the Cathedral. It is a rocket controlled by a small giantess. Our sources of information indicate to us that it is probable that she will leave tomorrow morning…”
Astounding photos of amazing puppets.
Makes The Heart of the Beast look like child’s play.
Long Weekend
Not too much to talk about. Saturday we had a family birthday party at my sister’s house.
Sunday and Monday I worked on stripping paint off my house. Big fun.
More Mambo fun
I host several web sites on my server, for friends and family. So I figure “what the hell, why not run Mambo for some of them.”
So I’m setting up Mambo for The Saint Paul Irregulars (the group that I game with) and The Village Idiots (a motorcycle mailing list that I also host – this is a temp location for the site.)
I also host a co-workers site – Coolleen.com and she is playing with Mambo also. But it’s not ready for prime-time yet.
And it sounds like I’ll be hosting yet another couple of sites soon also. Another coworker and one of my Aunts. And maybe a cousin and perhaps a friend…
Man. I might want to get some more RAM in this server. 🙂
Wheee!
Kicked it over
This morning I kicked my website over to use Mambo.
I still need to migrate most of the old content over, and some will just get linked to I imagine.
All the old stuff is still available in it’s original location with the old front page being here.
I think it’s pretty cool.
Taking the long way to work
It is a beautiful day outside this morning. Mid-50s, not a cloud in the sky.
So I decided to take the long way in to work today.
I’ve never gone this way to work before, but I came home this way a few days ago.
Usually I head down 28th Street to Blaisdell Avenue, then turn onto 31st Street to get on I-35W Southbound at 2nd Avenue. Then I head East on Hwy 62 until it turns into Hwy 55 and then over the Mendota Bridge and to work.
But today I decided to take the much more scenic route.
I headed down Lyndale Avenue to East Minnehaha Parkway. Then I had some decisions to make:
Do I turn South on Portland down to Hwy 62? Nah.
Do I turn South on Cedar Avenue down to Hwy 62? Nah.
Do I turn South on 24th Avenue down to Hwy 62? Nah.
Do I stop at the Mello-Glaze bakery? Tempting, but not today.
Do I turn South on 34th Avenue down to Hwy 62? Nah.
I took the parkway all the way over Hiawatha Avenue and then South to where it intersects Hiawatha Avenue. Then I take Hwy 55 across the Mendota Bridge and into work.
That pesky river is always in the way.
It was a beautiful ride on a beautiful day. I love Minnehaha Parkway.
And I don’t think it added any more than 10 minutes to my commute.
Weather Promos
Oh my god. I’m laughing so hard I’m crying.
These are some TV Weather Promo spots that supposedly were live on their website.
“We’re going to make Mother Nature our bitch!”
Hahahahahah.
Password generator bookmarklet
This is a bookmarklet that you use to generate passwords for web sites. The passwords are generated based on the URL and a master password that you supply.
Pretty cool.
From the web site:
I hate passwords. I mean, I don’t mind making up and memorizing the really important ones but what about all those e-commerce and community sites that want me to create accounts? I used to end up using the same password at all of them and then I felt stupid knowing that one SQL Server exploit or disgruntled admin could cost me my whole identity.
So, I wrote a bookmarklet to make up passwords for me. It asks for my master password, which is all I have to remember, and uses it to make a unique password for each site. It even types the password into any password fields on the current page for me, whether I’m registering for a new account or logging in on a subsequent visit.