Steve and Adam (that’s me) present: one hour news, a television news magazine focusing on hard-hitting investigative journalism. The idea is to get the filming and interviewing done in one hour flat so we can deliver it to the public that is so hungry for real news as quickly as possible.

one hour news will be continuing this tradition of asking the right questions of the right people at the right places. But we need your help. We need to know: what are the issues you are interested in? What are the questions you want asked? And basically, who should we harass for your entertainment’s sake?

Comment on this post to help us determine what issues one hour news should look into in the next few weeks.

But please, do this after watching this edition of…
one hour news: “What Happened to the Cap’n?”

In this show, we look into a startling trend in American food: the disappearance of Cap’n Crunch from an increasing number of shelves. We ask the tough questions. We get real answers. And we use big words!

Hmm.. I must use this opportunity to my advantage. This post is allowing me to prevent myself from writing a VERY boring paper (it is definitely a boring paper as shown by my use of caps). This use of my time is so well spent that maybe I should try to extend this post (after all it is my first). Oh I know! Now no laughing since this took me 5min to translate: “Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?” “Is that a scroll in your toga, or are you just happy to see me?” Anyways, that is about all I got, I’m serious, completely drawing a blank right now. Well I did manage to delay my fate for about 10mins, so thanks.

Ha ha. I just realized I didn’t provide the first link I meant to in the previous post. What was supposed to be “fun” was this — Flash ping pong! And it is. (Fun) What is funny about it is that I did what I usually do when I’m making a post and I don’t have the URL off hand. I just create an empty hyperlink tag with just a “” rather than a “http:// etc…” But empty quotes in a link tells it to link to the current page — so I just linked you to mathcaddy.com and said “This is fun.” When I realized it, I could have fixed it, but I think it actually makes sense that way with the post. Whatever. I’m done with this. But does it win?

This is fun.

This is not: we had a pageload size of 220k yesterday because a couple of the thumbnails were over 30k! One was even 90k! Using PhotoShop, I was able to reduce the size of the page to a sleek 31k. Please adjust the quality to medium or low for all thumbnails. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, figure it out or ask. Or, at absolute minimum, email me if you’re posting something that’s large. I can usually fix it in less than a minute… if I know about it.

Also, if you’re a contributor and you’d like to be able to put pictures on the sidebar, just let me know.

Or at least that’s what it feels like. Getting it was marginally fun, like play…but getting rid of it is another story. I’m afraid I may be stuck with it for an as-yet undetermined length of long weighty time. I can’t quite say, but I’m pretty certain that I wish I had never gotten into Visual Basic.

Don’t misunderstand me though, the program I’m working on will surely help my research. The goal is for it to consolidate 4 other programs (written in various languages - Fortran, C, QuickBasic, Japanese) into one, slower, bloated piece. But nevermind that - the real stitch comes in trying to prevent crashes by anticipating every stupid thing a user could do. Like entering letters in a numeric field. Or feeding a sandwich through the drive door. I’m still working on the first one.

It’s rather strange though. I can’t get anyone at Tech to admit to using VB, though the guilt can be clearly seen spread across their promiscuous faces. Filthy bastards. I’d switch to a different language if it wasn’t already too late.

And in preparation for my trip to Japan, I’ve taken on learning one indispensable Japanese word each day. Today’s word is:

admonishment - kyoukai

I wanted to try out Google’s simple search tool, and I got it up and running with very little effort. Horray!

But… the problem is that it uses the information google stores in its system…. and it has indexed the old search archives, meaning that the whole stupid site is missing! You can’t click on a link older than about a week ago without getting a 404 error.

So… if you want to use the search, the simple solution is to look at the cache for now. I will soon have a perl script search that will run on our server and search the text of this site. Hopefully soon. If only I could find one! Arr. Any help would be greatly appreciated. (Unless you can’t provide any helpful help, in which case, keep it.)

For anyone thinking I might have been exaggerating about the flood of traffic to mathcaddy.com over grey tuesday, you can check out site stats here, updated a couple of times a day. And if you ever feel the urge to check the traffic, you’ll find a handy-dandy “site stats” link listed at the bottom of the left sidebar, in addition to a “top searches” link to see what crazy stuff people typed into search engines that got them here.

And one simple rule for the future: please, do not mock the traffic. Ever.

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Okay, mock away.

In no particular order…
“What ever happened” by the Strokes
Chutes to narrow by The Shins
Anything by the Long Winters
Oistad and Davis “These Walls are Thin” (my first album)
alaska!
BRMC

…to be continued

I hope that this post doesn’t get edited as well, because it’s important that we importantly understand the importance of a game that involves penguins and landmines. Comment with your top score to see who wins (even though we all know that Steve always does…)

I have to make this update to Eric’s earlier post — we at mathcaddy.com are no bearers of misinformation, so let me set the record straight.

The new article in the NY Times on Grey Thursday should be out tomorrow (based on what the reporter said). His article would be the second he has written on the subject and would primarily be a follow-up of what effect the protest had. I was not interviewed and as of now do not expect to be, but my name is listed among those who are willing to have their identities and statistics quoted. So, there is a chance that my bandwidth could be maxed out after all… but who knows?