March, 22, 2002 archives

watch out, more trading spaces chatter. the seattle, 137th street episode has to be a prime example of the brilliance of the show, as a television show. here's a behind-the-scenes look from the homeowner who ran off-screen, sobbing, during her reveal. (i do get the distinct feeling that the show could do itself a favor by improving the quality of work. nearly every piece i've read about the show talks about shoddy workmanship. it's just bad pr, and i don't think it would be all the expensive to rectify.)

the motley fool has an excellent article on your most important financial decision: deciding to be content. (the article springs from “does economic growth improve human morale?”, which is also chock-full of yummy goodness.)

the internet wayback machine is so nifty (although slow). it's a great way to replace those otherwise dead links in my résumé.

these tales of doing navy seal pt not just once, but twice, are much-deserving of awe. (and both reminds me how far i am from being able to do something like this right now, and how visible it is on the horizon.)

pitcairn island is one of the most isolated places on the earth. it's an island is the south pacific populated mostly by descendants of the mutineers from the bounty. and it's embroiled in a sex scandal.

the are clearly two camps of people who develop names for phobias. one camp gives us things like cyberphobia, astrophobia, and insectophobia. the other gives us things like arachibutyrophobia, alektorophobia, and hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. i think it is obvious which group would be more fun at a party.

interesting blo.gs stats: of the 18079 weblogs that the site has seen updates for since early january, 4580 are either hosted at radio.weblogs.com or contain "'s Radio Weblog" in their title. of those, 2146 have updated within the last month, 953 in the last week, and 250 today. overall, 9324 sites have updated in the last month, and 4306 in the last week, and 1284 today. some day i'll start collecting the stats so i can do real historical tracking.