Must've been hungry..

Just had a grilled ham & cheese sandwich (Jen's suggestion :), then an apple, two scrambled eggs, and a glass of chocolate milk.

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If you don't read lj_dev and/or don't have a paid account, go read this post. It sums up quite neatly why LJ rocks so much and why it's worth paying for, even though you can get it for free.

Richford is a very small town.

I went to Richford today to drop off Jen's speeding ticket plea, since she forgot to mail it in and can't show up in court this evening.. the courthouse was closed again. Fortunately, there were some women in the parking lot next door, who happened to a) know the judge personally, and b) be volunteer firefighters.. they found the judge's home number and let me into the firehouse to call him. Between one of the women (Heather?) and I talking to him, we figured out that I could put it in an envelope and leave it on the desk in the firehouse, because the judge is also a volunteer firefighter--he'll pick it up on his way to court in the evening.
Then at noon, the fire siren went off for its daily test.. dimmed the power in the whole firehouse as it powered up. :)

And when I got back to Ithaca, I picked up my pictures from the Cornell store.. a lot of good pictures, including the formal, Jen, Jen's tattoos, and various animals (Peanut, Bola, Bruno, and Tlaloc), which I'll post some of soon. :)

FAQ!

LJ/Brad held a big Q&A session in news the other day, and the results were posted today.. among the most interesting:

LJ gets 14.5million hits/day, not including images, lately.

Birthday emails still aren't ready to come back yet.

Refreshing incessantly not only doesn't hurt the servers, but doesn't even touch the database if you refresh too quickly--i.e., it'll only give you updates every X seconds.

Invite codes may be going away soon, for at least a while.

Brad uses American Crew shampoo. (This smells good, by the way.)

There may be tools on the way to see all the community posts you've made.

Journal searches may be enabled as a paid feature some day.

"There are two fun things in htdocs/index.bml. 1) Frank can pee, and 2) We try to hide the ability to create new journals from a certain subset of the Internet population. You can find details by reading the code. ;)"

I love webcomic artists.

In a recent strip, Greg Dean of Real Life Comics indicated that a computer would freeze and stop functioning below a certain temperature. What with superconductivity and all, I fired off an email..

Subject: Cold computing..
Now, you should know that would -improve- the performance, if anything.. ;)
-Scott

To which he replied:

Nope. I'm right. ^^D Nyah. *grins evilly*
-Greg

And later, he posted a news item:

May 31 , 2002
Gaaah!! *gets buried under a pile of mail*

Yes, I REALIZE that the colder it gets, the better the computer would work. I know all about superconductivity and the like. Now, this is where I, the mighty cartoonist, come in.

In my world, the world of the comic, conductive elements actually have vastly different properties than in the real world. Whereas they operate perfectly at temperatures ranging from 60 or so degrees farenheit to nearly 110 degrees farenheit, they differ from real-world conductors in that when the temperature reaches exactly 57.3 degrees farenheit, they INSTANTLY freeze solid. The resulting effeciency equation looks like this:



What we can learn from this is twofold: First, we learn that any room in which a computer is operated MUST be kept at a temperature above 57.3 degrees farenheit, or equipment damage could occur.

Secondly, we learn that the cartoonist is ALWAYS right, in every possible situation, and one should NEVER assume that he or she knows more than the cartoonist does. Ever.