Dave Kellam

A friend of mine at Golden Words went by the pseduonym Albino Squirrel. Apparently a town in Illinois goes out of their way to protect albino squirrels. Some people and their squirrels.

I found a decent biography of Tesla. I mainly remember the name from playing Red Alert when I was younger. The tesla coils were great for killing soldiers. He invented an earthquake machine.

This page offers some insight into how google ranks websites.

An Iraqi official has suggested a duel between Bush Jr. and Saddam. It works for me. I suggest dueling with explosives, there’s less room for error.

What kind of dork sits in a computer lab on a friday night, trying to code a 2D maze in OpenGL? That’s right.

Thisis a cool optical illusion. If look at the s without focusing on the surrounding image, you can tell they’re the same.

I ended up watching Withnail & I, one that Bruce Robinson did before How to Get Ahead in Advertising. That one was good, but Withnail is better. The dialogue is amazing; the scene where they get arrested for drunk driving is genius. I couldn’t stop laughing.

So immeadiately following the movie, I jump on the IMDb and seek it out for blogging. I was checking out the Withnail & I entry and notice the “we also recommend” at the bottom for Bulletproof. Yeah, that one with Adam Sandler in it. Which in turn recommends Lethal Weapon, which recommends Lethal Weapon 4. That brings us back to Lethal Weapon, an infinite loop. I found it amusing.

Update: Andrew and I guessed that his might not be such a random occurence. He recommended that I try A Knight’s Tale, which sure enough leads to an infinite loop. Try it. And then Snatch, that does it too. And then Straw Dogs. Yup those were all Andrew’s choices. Andrew the film buff.

Update #2: Refusing to give up, Andrew tries his last hope: Blade Runner. Sure enough that hunt ended quickly in a loop with Aliens and Alien3.

I watched How To Get Ahead in Advertising tonight. Until a minute ago, I didn’t know that it was made in 1989. From the rhetoric spewed forth, it could easily have been written by the new generation of film makers that have been inundated with brands and anti-branding (the likes of Adbusters and No Logo). Beyond that aspect of the movie being a little bit tired these days, it was brilliant. Well not brilliant, but pretty damn funny. Some of the lines and moments in it were gold, pure gold.

New video’s from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory illustrate the activity surrounding the pulsar in the Crab nebula.

Disney wants to remake Snow White as a martial arts movie. It’s not that I can’t see the story being interpretted like that, it’s more the image of the dopey cartoon dwarves running around kickboxing. They’re thinking live action, so it’s out of the question. Still funny though.

I don’t understand why this weblog on computational complexity crops up now. I could have used it for my software specifications course last semester. I think that I have an algorithms course next semester that we’ll be doing a lot of complexity in; I guess it’ll be a good link to hold onto.