http://isaac.eiland-hall.com Thoughts and Dreams... Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:31:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Tamales at last! Tamales at LAST! Thank goddess almighty, I've tamales at last! Okay, okay, I know, that's abusing the quote - and my apologies to Rev. King; I mean no disrespect, but I truly am excited -- I HAVE TAMALES! I finally thought to poke my head in a little hole-in-the-wall ... http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/09/13/at-last-tamales/ It says something about the power of Ike that we're this far away from the storm and seeing effects. Winds have been gusty off and on, and we've seen a few storms move through in the outer bands and inflow... but also some coastal flooding: http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/09/11/hurricane-ike-panama-city-fl/ http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/08/25/361/ It's..... soooo..... ssssllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww............................. http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/atcf_web/image_archives/2008/al062008.08082218.gif http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/08/22/incoming/ Can't keep it a secret any longer. Actually, I'll let the video do the talking... As soon as IsaacForPresident.com propagates, I'll have my platform laid out there, as well as the start on fundraising. http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/08/22/announcing-my-candidacy/ Not quite, I suppose... but a cat fell asleep on an ambulance, and had to go along for the ride - they only noticed the poor thing when they arrived at the emergency call, and it mewed. Aww! Link: http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2008/08/22/6423_local-news.html http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/08/22/hey-did-we-get-a-siren-upgrade-or-what/ Graphic says it all, really... The exact track (over more land or gulf) determines the strength, but now it looks like a range of maybe 30-40mph sustained winds vs. 25-30... http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/08/22/forecast-for-panama-city-upgraded-to-tropical-storm-from-tropical-depression/ That's a South Park reference, in case you don't recognize it...Eek! For once, the spaghetti models are more encouraging than the official track So... Fri/Sa is gonna suck... especially delivering on Saturday... d'oh http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/08/21/its-comin-right-for-us/ Fay is coming for us! heh. The fun part is it's scheduled to hit us Saturday. Whic h  will be my last day delivering for the flower shop (going back to school this fall)... If she tracks just a little south, we may see TS winds. Otherwise, just TD winds... Still, ... http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/08/21/hello-fay/ Okay, now I'm beginning to get a little worried... This thing may be headed our way after all... The official guidance is east of the model consensus, but the models have been moving west for the past couple of days now... http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/08/17/ts-fay/ Cool concept: The listed time to get the motorcycle from the plane is three minutes, so that's not bad. Although the modified the engine to reduce the chances for fuel leakage, it still means you're flying with a gallon or two of gas on your belly. Cool idea! http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/08/17/flying-car-how-about-a-flying-motorcycle-sorta/ So Reefer Madness opened on Friday. It's an awesome show. Pictures: http://www.emeraldcoastphotoseast.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=573075 You can see the larger versions of all of those pictures. Even better, there's video! http://www.newsherald.com/video/index.php?bcpid=1184417205&bclid=1171892348&bctid=1727930955 Rachel designed the lights, I designed the sound - we're running them respectively for the run... http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/08/17/reefer-madness-2/ http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/08/14/the-ultimate-speed-bump/ The real problem is that it's so narrow that cars scrape the sides... poor planning! More info: http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/08/14/the-ultimate-speed-bump/ http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/08/17/the-ultimate-speed-bump/ http://www.greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080816/NEWS01/808160330/-1/SPORTS So this guy walking on the tracks (DUMB) hears a train horn, looks back, and sees a train approaching on the tracks he's walking on. So he switches tracks. But so does the train, and he never looks back again, and it killed. Stupid. Sad, but stupid. http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/08/17/man-killed-by-train-likely-miscalculated-coroners-deputy-says/ What could be better than a GPS headset for cows? Won't be long before cowboys will be IT geeks. I suppose it shows that I'm a city "dude", because I have no clue how you can steer cattle with voice commands, but it sounds cool. And it looks like it's solar-powered... More info: http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/lifestyle/stories.nsf/lifestyle/pets/story/250d507ec7b233e28625749f00156f96?OpenDocument http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/08/08/the-electronic-cowboy/ Source: http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,26058,24108622-5014090,00.html So apparently someone wrote "BOMB" on the side of their suitecase and checked it in to Quantas. The bag was checked, and it wasn't until baggage handlers got hold of it that someone noticed. Then, moron managers decided to move the bag - still not checked out by anyone like, say, ... http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/08/01/luggage-with-bomb-written-on-it/ A 28 kilometer-long bridge is being planned to link the Middle East and Africa. The US$20 billion bridge will become the longest suspension bridge in the world and tower some 400 meters above the water, with at least three spans of around 2700m each. Undoubtedly set to become one of ... http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/07/28/28-km-bridge-to-link-africa-and-middle-east/ I loved Lego when I was a kid. I still do, I just don't have an excuse to play with them anymore... This is essentially Lego furniture -- that's people-sized right there... Ah, to be rich and be able to throw money at this - I'd have a houseful of the stuff. ... http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/07/28/want-lunablocks/ http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24089408-29277,00.html NINE workers have been sacked after they allegedly used a contractor's heavy machinery to build an earth ramp over which they jumped one of the worker's vehicles. and A spokeswoman said SRWPA was aware of footage showing "intentional demolition of a private vehicle using sub-contractor machinery by workforce on the northern pipeline ... http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/07/28/what-happens-at-the-job-site-stays-at-the-jo-oh-wait-it-doesnt/ A series of quotes - Batman or Bush? Quite amusing. http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/07/28/batman-or-bush/ Now this is just well done. http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/07/28/muppet-rammstein/ Now I'm all for bacon being the national food (apologies to those who aren't allowed it, e.g. Muslims, Jews, etc), but I think this might just be a little much: The site isn't in English, but what more is there to say anyway? More pics. You know you want to see `em. LONG ... http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/07/28/bacon-bacon-oh-holy-bacon/ So I found a new extension for Firefox - "Deepest Sender":   You can click the image to go to the installation (and information) page... It's pretty cool - I gave ... http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/07/28/dashblog-works-for-firefox/ The Kaleidoscope Theatre is currently in the middle of auditions for Reefer Madness, which will be the first show of the 2008/2009 season. Although I'm available to the director as emergency-cast in case he can't get people he likes, it looks more and more like I will, in fact, be ... http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/06/10/reefer-madness/ So there's this game - Improbable Island - that you play in your browser. It's free. It's really a blast. It's based on the old "LoRD" BBS door-game engine, and it's very slickly done. If you enable Javascript (if you don't know what that means, you haven't disabled it, so ignore that ... http://isaac.eiland-hall.com/2008/05/23/improbable-island/