How do things look to a color blind person?

http://www.vischeck.com/

The examples labeled 'deuteranopia' look just like the originals to me.

Two and three quarter pairs of old pants for sale, $60 each

I worked an inventory at Hollister's today. If you're as uncultured as I am, you probably haven't heard of them, but they're kind of like Abercrombie only with barely any lighting. Among other things, they had a big display of jeans with holey knees, ragged cuffs, and paint splotches all over. Most of them were priced at $79.99. I have to wonder, who is buying these jeans and why? Perhaps, not realizing their future need of such things (quite understandable i would think), they threw out those holey jeans that were sitting in the bottom of their drawer for two and half years, and when they went to the salvation army, there wasn't anything quite ratty enough, even after wearing them to art class and paintballing. And apparently they now need some properly destroyed jeans quite urgently.

So I'm selling my collection of holey jeans at a special discount, if you were thinking you need some of those. I think one pair even has a seed crop of paint splotches.

RE: stay young

I swear, the temptations in this field can be overwhelming sometimes. First job prospects in marketing or with Microsoft, and now this.

I bet it would be pretty fun making up those little post-modern novellas at the end of junk mail. I could make a little script that puts them together automatically! Take these two for example:

our address is in hyperlink above along with gone from db
The sailors squatted in the loops, and Rob swung the vine over his shoulders and turned the indicator of the traveling machine to up.
As they slowly mounted into the sky the little sailor gave a squeal of terror and clung to the boy's arm; but the other, although seemingly anxious, sat quietly in his place and made no trouble.

D--d--don't g--g--go so high! stammered the little one, tremblingly; suppose we should f--f--fall! Well, s'pose we should? answered Rob, gruffly. But their journey was almost over, for in a short time they reached a small cave from which there was no further outlet.

insulted past forgiveness."Now she's mad. Oh, dear, I wish I hadn't asked
you to speak, Mama," said May, looking `It's the wisestthing to expect, and
the likeliest. But I think their withdrawing is in your favour.
of court not being allowed, Jerry heard no more: but left them--so like
each other in feature, so unlike each other
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I think it would be pretty fun developing a little machine that cranks these out. It's like madlibs!

Some pretty pictures

Here are some pretty pictures of website networks:

Political news sites
Political blogs

warning: they are somewhat large files (like 3MB or so)

They don't have the dumbell shape we're hoping for, but at least in the news sites you can see the conservative and liberal sites clumping together on opposite sides of the graph.

I think it's Friday

It kind of snuck up on me this week, but I think it's Friday. Which means I don't have anything I need to do by tomorrow. Nor, come to think of it, do I have anything I need to do tomorrow. I don't have tutoring, my laundry is going right now, and I have food in the fridge. In other words, I could spend all day tomorrow programming! Or I could go for a hike or something. Hmmm.

Important news

I have two items to report. The first is that according to a recent public service announcement, "Beeeeep. Beeeeep. Beeeeeep Beeeep!" Second, slowlane and I have decided to travel across the US during Christmas break as itinerant greeting card salespeople, and you all are invited to come with us. This way, we can visit lots of this country while making enough money to buy plane tickets for the summer. I believe it was mom's suggestion that we might consider making it a family motorcycle trip, and create the greeting cards while riding the motorcycles.

Moving

So today I'm finally moving. It's a smaller room, for higher rent, but it's closer to school, I get space in the garage for my moto and tools, and I can do laundry right there in the garage, instead of driving far far away. And there's a couple of very friendly, well-behaved dogs.

The space in my room is a little confined though. Slowlane, would you like a Piume?