Clay’s Money Origami site has a bunch of cool origami patterns for US bills. He also has links to other money origami sites. The sushi chef thing above refers to the dollar-bill crane that sits on the tip jar thingy (what’s the Japanese word for it?) at my local sushi bar.
Cory Doctorow’s recent article is an interesting take on the conflict between the technical nature of the internet and big business. He could be right.
I got to see The Fellowship of the Ring (NOT “The Lord of the Rings” as most people call it — it’s only the first of three movies) on Saturday. It was good. I don’t mean that as a slam, though. I grew up on Tolkien and his various knockoffs. Junior high and most of high school was consumed by SF and F reading and the playing of D&D. Tolkien’s world is the world I grew up in. I have no idea how many times I’ve re-read that trilogy. Fifteen? Twenty? At least twenty.
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Finally, I can get high-speed Internet access at my house! Before I moved into the house, I had a DSL connection at my apartment. But, the house wasn’t in a part of town where I could get DSL, and the whole town didn’t have high speed cable access then. When our neighborhood finally was eligible for DSL access, it turns out that there are too many “load coils” (whatever those are) on my line, so no DSL for me. Just last week, high-speed cable access became available, so I immediately signed up. They’re coming to install it next Friday afternoon. I got a cable modem (Motorola SurfBoard 4100) for Christmas in anticipation, too. I can hardly wait. I may need a bigger harddrive to hold all that music… heh heh.
I’m back at work after a five-day “vacation” that involved 18 hours of windshield time, two families, two cats, and one dog. Needless to say, as much as I like the families, I’m happy to be home (and almost happy to be back at work). I ate my weight in bad-for-me food every day. I need to fast for a week just to get my digestive system functioning properly again.
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