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scottobearSaw my brother yesterday, briefly. It seems that he will be getting his long-awaited settlement some time next week if all goes well. He says that he'll give me a healthy chunk of it, to go towards the money he owes me, and put the rest toward getting a regular monthly apartment and activate his cell-phone in order to get on track (rather than his current hostel/ floor space/ day labor situation. I want him to get some council on how to handle money, and I may help him to open an account, if only to keep him form pissing it away as soon as he gets it. We'll see where it goes.
I've been drinking a *lot* of water / iced tea these days. I keep a few liters nearby at almost all times. Freeze half a bottle the night before, and fill the rest to keep it cool all day long.
I'm enjoying playing with these weird Asian monkey mazes
Teen Titans last night wasn't bad, but I was braced for the anime nods and it skewing to a younger crowd. I'm not sure why it's on at 9pm... Perhaps 7 or so is a better slot. I think that they got the vibe right for the core characters, and the music was very appropriate. The Hive kids were good basic villains, too.
Happy 34th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and moon landing!
On researching with Google, I get so many crank sites that feel the landing was a hoax. NASA has a site to refute those claims. Badastronomy.com has a nice list, too.
Noises from the world's largest archive of animal sounds are being made available for use as ring tones for cell phone users, the British Library said yesterday.
Cell phone ring tones will soon go ape
London: Noises from the world's largest archive of animal sounds are being made available for use as ring tones for cell phone users, the British Library said here yesterday.
Among the sounds available are the thuds of the male gorilla beating its chest to impress females and scare off competitors, the grunting of various species of pig and raucous bird calls from the Amazon jungle.
The library claims to have the world's largest animal sound archive and is now making its 100 000 recordings available to two companies that will in turn put some of them on the internet by the end of the week.
Users can allocate different calls to different callers - perhaps the gentle cooing of a dove for calls from a girl- or boyfriend, the grunting of a pig from the bank manager and an outraged squawk from the wife or husband.
The global market in downloading ring tones is put at $4 billion a year.
Richard Ranft, the curator of the wildlife section at the British Library Sound Archive, is pushing British birdsong.
"Many bird sounds are proven to be relaxing - we provide a lot of doctors' surgeries with bird calls for their waiting rooms for exactly that reason," he said.
"They can also be very evocative: the fiery-necked nightjar song is tremendously beautiful and serene."
Not to be outdone, the Royal Opera House is making some of its recorded music available for the same purpose, and the National Gallery is making its paintings available for picture messaging. - Sapa-dpa
1 year ago - bike name poll, palm doodles, planning to visit Danny with his busted leg
2 years ago - rough night, slake, ambisinister, voice activated tech, how far would you go poll
3 years ago - counting days, finished first Harry Potter, books I repeat read, abortive attempt to track intake
I've been drinking a *lot* of water / iced tea these days. I keep a few liters nearby at almost all times. Freeze half a bottle the night before, and fill the rest to keep it cool all day long.
A 3,500-4,000-year old mummified monkey is seen on display in the Egyptian Museum's new section for ancient mummified pets July 6, 2003. Ancient Egyptians loved their pets so much they even wanted to take them into the after life. REUTERS/Aladin Abdel Naby
I'm enjoying playing with these weird Asian monkey mazes
Teen Titans last night wasn't bad, but I was braced for the anime nods and it skewing to a younger crowd. I'm not sure why it's on at 9pm... Perhaps 7 or so is a better slot. I think that they got the vibe right for the core characters, and the music was very appropriate. The Hive kids were good basic villains, too.
Happy 34th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission and moon landing!
On researching with Google, I get so many crank sites that feel the landing was a hoax. NASA has a site to refute those claims. Badastronomy.com has a nice list, too.
Noises from the world's largest archive of animal sounds are being made available for use as ring tones for cell phone users, the British Library said yesterday.
Cell phone ring tones will soon go ape
London: Noises from the world's largest archive of animal sounds are being made available for use as ring tones for cell phone users, the British Library said here yesterday.
Among the sounds available are the thuds of the male gorilla beating its chest to impress females and scare off competitors, the grunting of various species of pig and raucous bird calls from the Amazon jungle.
The library claims to have the world's largest animal sound archive and is now making its 100 000 recordings available to two companies that will in turn put some of them on the internet by the end of the week.
Users can allocate different calls to different callers - perhaps the gentle cooing of a dove for calls from a girl- or boyfriend, the grunting of a pig from the bank manager and an outraged squawk from the wife or husband.
The global market in downloading ring tones is put at $4 billion a year.
Richard Ranft, the curator of the wildlife section at the British Library Sound Archive, is pushing British birdsong.
"Many bird sounds are proven to be relaxing - we provide a lot of doctors' surgeries with bird calls for their waiting rooms for exactly that reason," he said.
"They can also be very evocative: the fiery-necked nightjar song is tremendously beautiful and serene."
Not to be outdone, the Royal Opera House is making some of its recorded music available for the same purpose, and the National Gallery is making its paintings available for picture messaging. - Sapa-dpa
1 year ago - bike name poll, palm doodles, planning to visit Danny with his busted leg
2 years ago - rough night, slake, ambisinister, voice activated tech, how far would you go poll
3 years ago - counting days, finished first Harry Potter, books I repeat read, abortive attempt to track intake
