Saturday, September 07, 2002

Fun With Search Engines Once again I have revamped Dr Zyg's site. Nothing award-winning, mind you, as it's just a basic information site on your basic luthier/music instructor... I've been getting weird results on the Big G search engine. "Link freshness" (from my site to his, in this case) must carry a great deal of weight. So, once again I will point to a great place to go for guitar lessons in Burlington, Connecticut. If history repeats itself, he'll rank #1 in a day or two, then -- poof! -- nowhere to be found. But now, I have thinned out the keywords, so let's see. 5:11:55 PM    comment []

As Paul blogged for us, some words to live by. 4:35:07 PM    comment []

About 24 hours until we begin 7 days on the Voyager of the Seas in the Western Caribbean. Not a typical vacation choice for us, but Sandy works for the cruise line, and employee rates have been ultra low since 9/11. And the Alaskan cruises filled up with real customers (good!). The ship is huge. As the site says, "the 142,000-ton, 3,114-guest Voyager of the Seas became the world's largest cruise ship when it entered service in November 1999." (There are a few identical sister ships, now.) We booked a cabin with a balcony for a relative pittance, so we are pretty excited. Cutting lose for a week will be nice. (Two weeks would be better!) 2:35:23 PM    comment []

An old neighbor and schoolmate, Dr. John F. Murray, is working with the Miami Dolphins on something called the The Mental Equipment Performance Index. MEPI is "based on a collective summary of how well a team executes on every single play." The Dolphins will be working for two kinds of high scores, this season! Dr. Murray is on the radio, too, including NPR. 2:23:45 PM    comment []

Foreigners for the USA (Is that like Jews for Jesus?) An message called Awesome Truth, allegedly of Australian origin, arrived in today's email. It reminds me of The Americans, a 1973 editorial by Canadian Gordon Sinclair. See the Awesome Truth email in full. 12:29:20 PM    comment []

Looking for what the Cream Soda Computer was, I found the little Quotes page of Computer Chronicles: Stone to Silicon (itself part of the unusual ThinkQuest Internet Challenge Library). Here's a gem from 1983: Apple Computer's Mike Markkula to Steve Jobs, on seeing the 1984 Macintosh TV ad: "You mean you really want to show this?" 10:52:19 AM    comment []