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Something Positive at Something Positive
June 11, 2004

A few weeks ago, Randy at Something Positive complained that he kept getting email from people telling him that he had bad spelling. That if was really going to be serious about his web comic (something he did in his free time around his real life and real job) that he should look at these things more carefully before they go online.

In response, he challenged people to make this possible. He challenged his readers to donate enough cash to cover a year of salary. If hey did it, he would quit his day job and become a full-time web cartoonist.

You'll get a tummy ache
June 11, 2004

Berta and Abby were eating jellybeans recently. Abby mentioned something about a tummy ache, presumably from eating too much candy. I wondered where she had learned this tidbit, and figured that Berta must have told this to her to prevent her from eating the whole bag of beans. This got me wondering…

Is “you’ll get a tummy ache” just an excuse that parents give so that their kids don’t eat too much candy? I don’t remember ever getting sick from eating too much candy - no amount of candy was too much in my childhood mind. Then again, maybe I stopped myself thinking that I might get sick from it.

Wiki Wiki
June 10, 2004

It’s got to be the stupidest name I’ve heard for a thing, but I’ve finally broken down and installed one.

Basically, a Wiki is a piece of software that allows you to create and edit web pages in a most free-form manner. In fact, the design was intended such that anyone could come along and make changes to any page that they wanted and add any page that they thought was needed.

Indoor Astronomy - A Book
June 09, 2004

I know I’ve been prattling on about writing a book forever, but I think I might have finally found a topic that makes sense.

I was looking at my Astronomy notes and noticed that there is a lot of cool stuff there that people ought to know. In a typical astronomy book you get a lot of pictures of things in space (that you’ll never see in your backyard telescope, by the way) and charts of the constellations. That’s all great, but there is more to Astronomy than star-gazing. Astronomy is a science.