Huh. A couple of Canadians patented the incandescent light bulb and Edison bought them out to further his research, but a German watchmaker named Henricg Globel (passing strange irony there) invented the first one.
Mysteries of Canada’s page describes some of it.
I googled Globel, and didn’t really find much. I’ll have to dig into it later.
The Sclafani~FamilyConnection is a Yahoo! group that deals with the “lineages and surnames” of folks with an even vowel to consonant ratio. Heh.
This is another decent VIM quick reference cheat-sheet.
My keyboard tray died last night. It was one of those underdesk sliding, articulating thingies that was built entirely out of steel.
Entirely out of steel, excepting, of course, where the tray mechanism attaches to the rail mechanism. This was made out of fine, Corinthian plastic. One would think that this would be an ideal failure point and reinforce it accordingly, but one would be wrong. I think the term is “planned obsolence”. Bastards.
Kensington has one that looks pretty sweet: Underdesk Adjustable Keyboard Platform
When I first put the site up, I asked my daughter if she wanted her own site.
She was enthusiastic… “Yeah, I want a site with games… That don’t expire, and ummm…”
I blocked her out just after “don’t”, as I am wont to do.
Teri, my technophobe spousal unit, should have her own blog.
She says that her days as a stay-at-home mom aren’t full of interesting/amusing stuff enough to warrant such a thing.
I disagree.
She generally has something funny to relate — usually something that one of my idiot spawn has done.
I found a decent securable wiki. Check it out here.
The only problem I encountered is an html entities warning, but a quick googling provided the remedy.
Charset Not Supported Workaround documents how to fix it.
Ok, still looking for the bloody keyboard glyphs, and came across this site.
8 Ways to Sunday » Page 23 (Finally, a Meme that Doesn’t Suck)
So, I reached for the closest book at hand, and came up with:
This screen stores a running list of your actions and accomplishments as well as other events happening in the world, including which nations are currently at war.
Sid Meyer’s Pirates!tm manual
During a search for “keyboard glyphs”, I somehow arrived at this site where historically inaccurate vikings are used to pimp the Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor.
Needless to say, I downloaded it.
My typing speed is one of my vanities, so I wanted to take a look at how fast/slow I really am.
Also, it supports the DVORAK layout, something I’ve been messing about with for a couple of years when I want to really hose up my muscle memory.
Cryptarithms (a.k.a. Alphametics) are a geeky way to pass the time.
Google used at least one of ‘em on their employment examination.