04-02-02008
What have I been doing all this while ? Well, I'm still doing the start up thing, but also I went off and finished all 33 levels of the Python Challenge. Based on my file timestamps, it looks like it took about four months, all told, including some sizable breaks after some of the nastier levels. (I'm looking at you, level 18).
I'm working my way through the Project Euler problems now.
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08-31-02007
When the sponsored links and decent donors of your current CMS starts featuring the likes of mail order brides, dating tours, and internet marketing consultants, it may just be time for a change....
With that, welcome to the Blosxom years here at pwan.org. I also switched the background color and made sure the page validates again.
Let me know if anything starts acting funky.
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I saw this in my homevalley newspaper during the recent Yuletime Parent-Girlfriend Introduction Extravaganva in Easton: Group says program equips students to face recruiters:
He (Peter Crownfield) said he always invites recruiters to examine his information and point out any inaccuracies.
"Every recruiter I've asked has come and looked at the materials," he said. "But they've never said anything was incorrect."
The students at schools where LEPOCO is permitted, such as Liberty, Freedom and Easton Area high schools, are receptive to the group, Crownfield said.
"We frequently get kids come up and thank us for being there for providing the other side of the story," he said.
Nice to see a bit of activism in the area I grew up. That there's any sort of coverage like this being published in the Lehigh Valley is pretty surprising. Perhaps some sort of tipping point has been passed.
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Happy International Migratory Bird Day.
Perhaps you can celebrate by getting a temporary bobolink tattoos.
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I was in Denton Texas over the weekend. A handful of pictures are up on Flickr. Enjoy.
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Are the adventures of Anpanman an analogy of the mission of Jesus Christ?
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My hometown of Easton Pennsylvania appears to be having
an annual flood.
All that was missing was a house smacking the bridge.
The gawkers with their camcorders were back, a governor was again inspecting the town's damage and the residents of Phillipsburg were wondering how they could have the worst flood in a half- century -- again.
In September, when a wayward cottage struck the bottom of the Phillipsburg Free Bridge and then- Gov. James McGreevey toured the decimated riverfront town, parents turned to their children and told them they might never again see a flood like that in their lifetime.
Yesterday they returned, vowing never to say never again.
(P'burg is across the Deleware River from Easton. None of the Easton flood stories I found were so colorful.)
The 2004 flood was blamed on Hurrican Ivan, and this year's flood on melting snow. Bah, I say. What's really changed between 1955 and today is the massive amount of development going on in the Easton area. The farmlands which would normally capture the water have been built over and paved, and now all that water runs off into sewers and goes directly into the river.
Word around town is when the next flood hits, the place to be is the Washington Street Wawa. Apparently they start handing out the free stuff just before the floodwaters reach the store.
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It's my fifth anniversary at Pappa Corp today. Apparently I get a fancy-shmanchy branded computer backpack to take up some more space on my shelf-o-swag.
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Whole Wheat Radio is great. There are a lot of good progressive/protest songs in the mix. It's worth putting up with the occiasional sappy country song.
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After 300 years, Virginia has pardoned the Witch of Pungo. In other news
... every year, a reenactment of Sherwood's trial takes place near the spot where she was thrown in the water -- now Witchduck Point -- with residents on boats playing the roles of sheriff, witch and town residents.
So what did the trial entail ?
Authorities took Sherwood out to the river, tied her up and threw her in the water. They tied a 13-pound Bible around her neck. But, according to Nash, she ripped off the ropes underwater and floated back up.
That must be one hell of a reenactment. I hope whoever plays the witch is a good swimmer.
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