Farsong Blog-o-Matic - Every movement, a purpose; each step, a reason

Gacked from travelsizedoug

Go to Wikipedia. Type in your birth date (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.

July 26^th

Events:
• 1947 - Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the National Security Act into United States law creating the Central Intelligence Agency, Department of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council.

• 1958 - Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.

• 1989 - A federal grand jury indicts Cornell University student Robert T. Morris, Jr. for releasing the Morris worm, thus becoming the first person to be prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Births:
• 1928 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (d. 1999)

• 1943 - Mick Jagger, English musician (The Rolling Stones)

Deaths:
• 1925 - Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and logician (b. 1848)


I might have gone slightly insane yesterday, after filming all day—my attention was easily distracted by shiny things (as Daniel and Catherine can easily attest), and my sense of balance was rather off. I also should have gotten to sleep earlier than I did.

I got up for breakfast this morning at eight-twenty, with Catherine, and promptly came back and fell asleep until work at eleven.

Sat in History drawing battles between Robots and Giant Lizards. “Giant Lizards and Robots”? I don't know; no matter how I phrase that sentence, it seems to give more emphasis or significance to the “Giant Lizards” rather than to the “Robots” …


I must also say that Army of Darkness is an awesome movie. It's cheesy, funny, and silly in kind, but actually accomplishes this with quite good photography.


This week should be more relaxed than the last—I have things to do (and things due), but I don't have a huge chunk of my time committed in the evenings of this week.


Even after almost three months, I still have yet to come up with a satisfactory name for the PowerMac G5 tower. I'd like to know some suggestions.

As it stands, the last four computers I've owned had names, as well as other various things:

Robert “Bob” — Pentium Pro 166
Maxmillian — PII 450
El Georgio — Toshiba Satellite 486, 75MHz (80486DX4)
Orcis — 500 MHz G3 PowerBook “Pismo” (aka “Firewire”)

“Felix Cincinnati” — 15 Gb 3G iPod
“Sar'Hok” — 40 Gb 3G iPod
“Alfonse” — 40 Gb 3G iPod, replacement via AppleCare

“Sar'Tel” — SSID, 802.11b router

I actually use names of characters (usually secondary ones) for the names of hardware. I don't think I could stand a piece of hardware with the nomenclature of “D'lan”—mainly because Dylan would then have a hard time living up to it.

Anyway, I'm open to suggestions.