How exciting to have a blood moon so close to Halloween! This bodes well for the spooks and spirits this Sunday.

Whoever created this cube solver deserves some sort of trans-nerding award for combining three of the coolest geek fields ever: Lego, Rubiks Cube, and Robot Vision.

Last night I had a dream that inspired me to this Haiku. It's entitled:
"For Quelbo"

The gentle giant,
with lumbering grace and poise:
Hippopotamus.

An alternative second line, "king of subaqueous grace:", came to mind, but the word 'subaqueous' seems a little hamhanded.

The new Google Desktop Search application is now available for beta use.

I am very impressed so far. I searched for a word I knew would appear in several of my documents and in 0.01 sec it came up with 36 results. We're talking inside .txt, .doc, and .pdf files, too. That search takes the windows 2000 file searcher (yeah, that cute little puppy) at least ten minutes. To be fair, I should point out that the app hasn't yet finished indexing my hard drive (although in about 5 minutes it got through nearly 1000 files). I'm going to reserve judgement untill I've used it for a while, but so far it's looking pretty good.

So I finally got around to setting up an email address for this blog. You can mail me at benvis@gmail.com. I realize I'll get spam for posting here, but I'll deal. I'm also adding a link. Oh! And if anyone wants a gmail invite, I have a few available. If you know me it's free, but if you don't, you have to send me a story. Any story will do as long as I've never read it before.

I really kind of hope someone sends me a story!

Thanks to Allen for posting this movie of the Cal vs USC game from last season. Dr.J, you'll like the music they chose for the first half of play. Watching this thing just made my day. Anybody putting together a phatty game party for this weekend?

I'm listening to The Roots album "Phrenology". Here's a phrenological report on Charlotte Bronte!

In other news: today you could have gone to the Love Parade in SF.