Archive for June, 2006
I spent a few hours playing around with GD (a PHP library that allows for the creation of dynamic images) and I think I finally fried my brain. I made an image that would dynamically create a representation of old wheel and tire values compared to new wheel and tire values. I’m sure I screwed [...]
I still wonder why our government does so little against spam. Just think about this: If the average person spends 30 seconds a day deleting spam and 200 million Americans are doing this, then 50,000,000 hours are being wasted each day. At $5.15 an hour, that comes out to $257,500,000. That’s right, a quarter of [...]
A report was recently completed, detailing the mistakes that were made on the Genesis probe. The probe was supposed to return “space dust,” atoms of solar wind that would help scientists figure out the origin of the solar system. On the return mission, the probe instead turned into a bomb, slamming into the Earth’s surface [...]
I’ve been meaning to create a cartoon I’ve had in mind for quite some time. I planned on having it be a flash cartoon and I even did a trailer for it a while back, but I started to discover the huge amount of work that would be involved, so I have found plenty of [...]
Just like pretty much any guy, I’m not a fan of shopping (buying cool electronics excluded). Since I recently moved into the apartment, I had to go melt my credit card on the essentials today. It’s amazing how much all the little things add up (soap dispensers, beaters, lamps, etc.). There are some really nice [...]
