Ugly
In three months, I made $6.68 from Google AdSense ads. Not enough to compensate for the way it made Inkstain look butt-ugly. It’s gone.
Archive of posts filed under the mind category.
loading docks and commercial buildings
Inkstain Google search string of the day: are loading docks required on new commercial buildings (Here’s what they found. Hope it was useful.)
My Darkest Secret
At the risk of tarnishing whatever green cred I might possess, a confession: I have always wanted a riding mower. I sit in them when I’m in the garden department at Home Depot, making brrmm brrmm noises under my breath. I imagine myself king of my domain as I ride the mower this way and …
Credit Where Credit is Due
Last week, USA Today’s Doyle Rice wrote a story about a research project in which I was involved. Rice did what journalists do. He got wind of a topic that interested him, tracked down and interviewed the lead researcher, got and read the paper, interviewed others for perspective, and wrote a story. Four days later, …
I Am Web 2.0
This is only a test.
On the Combinatorics of Language
I find the combinatorics of language simply staggering. In today’s Zippy the Pinhead, Bill Griffith has a character say: “When Mark Twain is picture smoking a pipe, he certainly looks contented.” A Google search shows that not only has that sentence never been committed to the Googleverse, but that a simple five word subset has …
Betty the White
A reader raises an interesting question about the Easy-Do Parties lady: Why is she alone in the kitchen, and why do the party guests in the background appear to be on fire? Nora, an expert in electricity and people being on fire (or, perhaps, the magical arts) suggests that the Easy-Do Parties lady (her name …
Is The “Global Warming” Really A Secret US Military Project?
From Danger Room: “Weather modification was used successfully in Viet Nam to (among other things) hinder and impede the movement of personnel and material from North Viet Nam to South Viet Nam,” notes a Naval Air Warfare Weapons Division – China Lake research proposal, released last month through the Freedom of Information Act. But “since …
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Inkstain Yard Sign Survey
I conducted the latest edition of my heralded Inkstain Yard Sign Survey this afternoon. The survey area this year is the two neighborhoods I happened to wander through on the last leg of my bicycle ride, shortly after the thought occurred to me. Actually, the idea occurred to me early in the ride, when I …
Global Warming and Football
Environment America is raising serious and important questions about the elephant in the room – the impact of global warming no one wants to talk about: National trends from recent seasons suggest that a home field advantage for cold weather teams over their warm weather rivals may truly exist. Environment America pointed to the National …