Bill Haast died a few days ago. Take a moment to click through to level_head's tribute and read about an incredible individual.

I remember reading about him in Ranger Rick magazine!

"Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is ( Read more... )

Did you hear about the ballet dancer's wife?

She had twins and when she presented them to him, he exclaimed "I'm a Pa de deux!"

They're how I restart my LJ:

Post a comment, and I will reply with one or two reasons why I think you're great. In return, you have to post this same meme on your blog and comment for other people.

snip.pl -- a script I wrote to dump out regions of a file and might potentially be useful to you.

Quick addendum: After I parked the car at the hotel and got out, there were three guys wandering around the parking structure. At intervals, one of them would let out an extended "Ehhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!" and the other two would join in a harmonic progression of Fonzieness ( Read more... )

First, an important message.

It occurs to me that not enough of my personal news is being painted in big bright letters by way of LJ. Sorry folks!

I'm in Peoria, IL right now. There's an Old Time Piano Playing Contest out here that nyankoframe is competing in. I told him last year that I'd come out to support him, but it turned out that the Mississippi ( Read more... )

One of the most amazing youtube videos I've seen: The space shuttle from preparation to launch.

I was talking to level_head about it to get an idea of the scale of the building it's in right before launch. It's known as the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). It's some 525 feet tall. Large enough to be seen in Orlando -- about 20 miles away ( Read more... )

Entertaining thought: Perhaps W was a time traveller. When he announced Mission Accomplished, he thought the date was actually 2012.

Exercise for the reader: See how many famous mistakes in history could be explained away by time travel. Special attention to be paid to "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN".

19:51 < wilw> OMFG @LAKINGS!
20:16 < wilw> AAHHHHHHHHFGHNDJEIAJSNDGGJSNAAHH!!!!!!!!!!! KINGS!!!!!!!!
BBBBTHHASFJFSAAA!!!!!!!!!!
20:22 < wilw> *Snoopy dance*
20:26 < wilw> Excited Wil is excited. #GOINGS! http://t.co/4nsJRJx
20:28 < wilw> Ugh. #GOKINGS, I mean. Why the fuck was ( Read more... )