Lee Sonko
About: Lee Sonko is a member of the Flaming Lotus Girls, a sculpture group based in San Francisco, CA.
Art: Flaming Lotus Girls
Enjoy portions of fire-art sculpture "The Angel of the Apocalypse" and "The Seven Sisters." Learn about the technology used to create its propane-powered fire "poofers".
Blog Posts
Big Night
--I’ve been thinking a lot about the final scene in the movie Big Night. I made a perfect omelette for breakfast this morning. And another for ...
Culturally Important Video
--Resist the urge to watch the wookie and jawa dance to ABBA and jump to 3 minutes and 10 seconds. on Youtube [See post to watch Flash video]
Youtube’s Profits
--(via) As of Q1 2008, YouTube is not profitable, with its revenues being noted as “immaterial” by Google in a regulatory filing.[4] Its ...
How to Create an HTML dump of Mediawiki
--If you will be traveling and need offline access to your Mediawiki wiki, what should you do? If you need to grab pages from a wiki that you aren...
Public Transit Systems are Usually a Bad Idea
--“You could buy every single person who will regularly use this boondoggle their own personal Prius, and you’d not only use less energy, you’d...
The Most Exciting Baby Shower This Year
--Make sure to read the bottom part too! Hallie’s Baby Shower Celebrant: Hallie McConlogue Baby: Pumpkin unit 1 Event Date: 2008-08-16Trailer T...
Well Crafted Zombie Alert
--I got this today. San Francisco is so [insert modifier here] Subject: Zombie Migration Alert: This Saturday, August 16th Zombie Alert: This Saturda...
Stream Your Camera Phone LIVE on the Internet
--Qik.com Wow.
Installed My Own PHP on Dreamhost
--I finally finally was able to install my own PHP and eAccelerator on Dreamhost. After all the pain and teeth pulling and agony and frustration and ...
Fix Price Move: Cautiously Recommended
--I helped ship a house of boxes from San Francisco to Boston. They used Fix Price Move. Here’s what my friend said who was taking delivery: Fi...
Power Tool Drag Races Article in the New York Times
--Here’s an article about the Power Tool Drag Races. Written by Jessica Bruder. It’s a good article. Click the photo to see the whole thi...
Installed Search Excerpt and Search Reloaded
--To make search results on my blog prettier and more useful, I have installed 2 plugins and added a search.php to my theme. The two plugins are Sear...
Hayes Smartmodem Optima 9600
--When I was a kid, this was one of the most “oo ahh”-able things in the world. They cost like $600. Now they have them at Weird Stuff fo...
Fully Legal AR-15 in California: Part 2
--This is a followup to my first posting of Fully Legal AR-15 in California. It’s gotten so many comments that it’s hard to sort through ...
Get a $40 coupon for a DTV converter box
--I saw a converter box at Radio Shack yesterday for $60. With the $40 coupon, switching to digital will be easy. https://www.dtv2009.gov/ See some r...
How to Fix My Squeaky Brakes
--A while back I paid a dealer to “fix” my brakes because they were squeaking when I drive at low speed and put the brakes on. I would pu...
Farting out of Context
--(via) [Joseph] Pujol became the first flatulence musician. It was a skill that eventually made him the most well-known and highest paid entertainer...
How China is building cities like Harbor Freight builds tools
--I was speaking to a solar panel prospect of mine a while back. I was telling him how he probably should not buy panels made by Sun Tech because you...
A Work of Art That Can Probably Kill You [grin!]
--Cracked Magazine did a piece called 5 Works of Art That Can Probably Kill You By Robert Brockway I’m proud and jumping-up-and-down happy to b...
Valentina Ristorante
--Last night Charlotte and I went to Valentina Ristorante in Bernal Heights. It was just terrific.
Get a $40 coupon to get a DTV converter box
--I saw a converter box at Radio Shack yesterday for $60. With the $40 coupon, switching to digital will be easy. https://www.dtv2009.gov/ See some r...
Mozy August 2008 Discount
--Get 10% off your subscription to Mozy AND get some money from me. Here’s all you have to do: First, sign up for Mozy with my referral link (...
Always-on Camera
--I want my always-on camera, my black box flight recorder. The technology is available to inexpensively produce a small device that records audio an...
2 Monitors
--My nice 19″ Neovo monitor broke a few months back. It sat in the dust for 3 months before I got it fixed. Why oh why did I wait so long?! Usi...
Instructables Show and Tell, July 2008
--Charlotte and I were there :-) Many wonderful creations were discussed. View the slideshow
What’s up
--Today: went to acupuncture. I feel great after. Mailed off several boxes of photos from Morley’s house. Productive… Went to the Box Sho...
I’m in love with a Yellow Drum Machine
--I love the Yellow Drum Machine. I love it’s mission in life…. seek out friends and play with them objects and bang on them with a joyou...
Flaming Lotus Girls Fundraiser: Dust And Illusions 6-28-08
--WATCH THE TRAILER SF-based, female-driven and fuel-powered art collective The FLAMING LOTUS GIRLS announce a benefit with the screening of “D...
Stamps.com referral discount
--I’ll give you $10 if you sign up with my Stamps.com referral code. You see, they give me $20 in postage for every friend I refer. So I’...
Work with Marty Nemko
--I caught this radio show a few weeks ago and now I’m listening via podcast a lot. Work with Marty Nemko is a really good program. I very much...
Outlaw Trans-fats and Only Outlaws will have Trans-fats
--State ban on serving trans fat first in U.S. California became the first state to outlaw trans fat in restaurants and food facilities Friday when G...
How to sell items on Amazon.com
--If you have lots of books to get rid of, Amazon.com can be a good way to sell them. Here are some tips. I’m making this list because I just w...
Bush or Batman?
--Bush or Batman is the hottest new game in town. You have to guess whether the quote you are about to hear was said by George W. Bush or Batman as p...
Historical Electric Rates
--Solar proponents claim that electric rates in California have been going up significantly faster than inflation, making solar a good deal. HereR...
Solar Power Information Resource
--I gathered this information when I was trying to make a living selling residential solar systems. The job didn’t agree with me but this infor...
Handgun Guide for Men and Women
--A while back I was considering getting a handgun. I wanted it to be easy to handle for both myself and my girlfriend. I decided on the Beretta 92FS...
Psychos in Love
--Speaking of classic movies, Psychos in Love is an all-time favorite of mine. That is the VHS tape I used to own. Since I don’t have a VHS p...
QBOX Events Mailing List
--I just took over administrating the QBOX Events mailing list. Laughing Squid is apparently getting out of the Mailman mailing list business. This f...
Time Barbarians
--5 Stars. Up there with Deathstalker. Not quite Evil Dead, but fun. I want to see this movie played at Bad Movie Night at the Dark Room. It was just...
Farewell, My Subaru
--I just finished reading “Farewell, My Subaru” by Doug Fine. I don’t like his writing style at all. He mixes exaggeration, humor, ...
Spam Karma: so long and thanks for all the fish
--Dave, the author of the terrific-fantastic-makes-blog-comments-possible-I’ve-donated-to Spam Karma has decided to call it quits on the projec...
Installed Wordpress 2.6, Problems
--Slightly prettier. Google Gears helps mitigate the slowness of all the freaking modal windows they keep putting in. Note I say “helps”....
Stickergiant Stickers Protect You From Robots
--SWARM has some new stickers in the mail. Not only will they protect you from the robotic singularity that is to come, but they are really cool (and...
Can We Go a Little Tiny Bit Faster?
--over the Fourth of July I was in Vermont with my family. I had not spent time at the house for several years.it is very reassuring that the place i...
Video Sitemap with FLV Embed
--I just set up the video sitemap feature of the terrific Wordpress plugin FLV Embed. With it, you and search engines can now find all the videos on ...
Funny Buttons by CTP
--Look and laugh. And dispair a little for getting the joke
Presenting SWARM at the Desert Arts Preview
--Coreyfro and I will be making a 10 minute presentation about SWARM at the Burning Man Desert Arts Preview. Our presentation will be at 9:45 p.m. Th...
How to enjoy the Burning Man experience from the comfort of your own home
--This reprint is worthwhile
DriveSavers $500 Discount Coupon and 10% Discount
--If your hard drive has crashed hard, IE your computer burned up in a house fire, then DriveSavers are the people to call. They are crazy expensive ...
The Right To Keep and Bear Arms: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ET AL. v. HELLER
--The Washington DC handgun ban was repealed by the US Supreme Court on June 26, 2008. Here is the ruling: (local) Supreme Court Ruling on the Washin...
The Pink Pistols and Guns in Public Housing in San Francisco
--Travis wrote about the Pink Pistols last week. The news story that he quoted and my comment bears repeating here: SAN FRANCISCO - The National Rif...
WALL-E
--Saw WALL-E with Charlotte Friday night. Very enjoyable. Reminds me of Charlie Chaplin. :-)
Followup to The Best Thing I Read All Day
--I have been talking with the person who wrote “The Best Thing I Read All Day“. the project that he is working on is pretty sweet. From ...
Copyright Law
--Want to learn about Copyright Law? Read this: (local copy) Copyright Law Second Edition by Robert Gorman I found it at the Federal Judicial Center.
Where to Buy Stuff for Burning Man
--The consumerist menace that is Burning Man, with all it’s bunny ears and cool neon and pasties, is back. —- Here is my own Burning Man ...
Vanson 8 AA NiCad NiMH Battery Charger
--I paid $3 apiece for two Vanson NiCad NiMH battery chargers at BatteriesandButter.com. I’m astounded that this same charger and many like it ...
The Best Cheese
--Is Government Cheese
The Best Thing I Read All Day
--I’ve spent hours catching up on my emails from being away for a week. Yesterday I responded to someone who was looking for a welder for a sho...
Off to Vermont!
--I’m off for a week to go see family. I’ll land in New Jersey and then we’ll be wisked off to Vermont. I haven’t been there ...
Crash Plan, Good Online Backup?
--I heard on Security Now about Crash Plan. It looks like it might be an excellent online backup tool. I had been fiddling with the idea of using Box...
Firefox 3 is super snazzy
--Groovy. Firefox 3 is really nice. Pages load faster and the new features I’ve found so far have all been non-intrusive and all quite welcome....
Drink, Don’t Drive
--Heh. Beer: Now Cheaper Than Gas! “Drink, Don’t Drive” Drink, Don’t Drive
Mozy June 2008 Discount
--Get 10% off your subscription to Mozy AND money from me. Here’s all you have to do: First, sign up for Mozy with my referral link (and get $...
Sue and Aimee’s Wedding
--Last week I went to another wedding with Charlotte. This one at the Shipyard in Berkeley. The vows were performed by several Sisters of Perpetual I...
The Marriage of Corey McGuire and Hallie McConlogue
--At Maker Faire, Corey McGuire married Hallie McConlogue. Their invitation was divine. . . And here they are actually getting married on the N...
Alexa Rank
--Comparing TJIC’s blog ranking to Lee.org on Alexa Trav said he had only 15 readers. I disagreed, did the math and then…. agreed. 15? Yo...
My Wordpress Plugins 6-6-08
--Credit where credit is due. Here are all the Plugins I’m running as of 6-6-08 on this Wordpress 2.5.1 install. Admin Drop Down Menu (v. 2.1 ...
San Francisco Rent Strike
--Some fliers made it to the front step of the building. They remind me that I live in San Freaky Cisco. From the website… Rent control has be...
RevolutionMoneyExchange $25 Signup Bonus
--RevolutionMoneyExchange is trying to compete with Paypal and eBay. To do this, they need to get a lot of signups. They are doing this by giving awa...
The Libertarian in The Mission
--450: Number of people that voted at the 25th and Valencia polling place for the June 3rd election 1: Of those, how many that were registered Libert...
Mediawiki, Wordpress and PHP Performance Improvements on Lee.org
--I run several Mediawiki wikis and Wordpress blogs on my Dreamhost shared hosting. I continue to work on improving performance on my wikis. Here are...
Same Sex Marriage But No Same Sex Divorce
--My friend Free points out: …Unlike Massachusetts, California does not have a law prohibiting marriage in the state if your home state would n...
Search and Replace Wordpress Plugin
--When I switched my permalinks from http://lee.org/blog/archives/… to http://lee.org/blog/… I had several links in my blog with the old ...
Night Light at the Climate Theater
--This show was quite a lot of fun. The piece I found most fun was a piece involving real dancers. A dancer was moving around, dancing this repeating...
Public-Private Art. Nice! Taylor Square
--Nice. (via) Taylor Square is a new public artwork created by Paul Ramirez Jonas and installed in front of the renovated Engine 8, Ladder 4 fire st...
The Space Shuttle Makes Me Sick
--I was wondering today, “What exactly is the purpose of the International Space Station and all those Space Shuttle trips for upkeep? ArenR...
The Telectroscope!
--A Victorian trans-Atlantic viewing tunnel revitalized for the 125th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge. . . The ends of the telectroscope had bee...
Where to Buy Dry Ice
--Airgas sells dry ice under the Penguin Brand name all over the place. Click here to find out exactly where you can buy dry ice in supermarkets. I f...
Motivational Posters
--Here are some Motivational Posters for you. Envy: When you can’t have one, pissing people off who do is the next best thing. . Inspiration:...
Ha!
--You are Jayne, the Merc You have a unique sense of fashionable hats and a discomforting closeness with your firearms. You may be the object of a...
YSlow Wordpress Performance Improvements
--The YSlow Firefox Addon suggested a few performance boosts for the blog. This seems to cut 1-2 seconds off loading time. Nice :-) added <?php f...
YSlow Performance Improvements
--The YSlow Firefox Addon suggested a few performance boosts for the blog. This seems to cut 1-2 seconds off loading time. Nice :-) added <?php f...
Jetpack!
--I sent this reply to Rick about… well, read for yourself Don’t tell Charlotte. She wants a motorcycle but refuses to get one because sh...
Molecular Gastronomy
--I went to a molecular gastronomy talk put on by Michael Zbyszynski at Maker Faire a few weeks ago. Here’s the bullet points I wanted to remem...
Hampster Dance
--Several years ago I ripped the original Hampsterdance.com homepage from Archive.org. It’s just a joy that every few months I get a thankful e...
The Hampster Dance
--Several years ago I ripped the original Hampsterdance.com homepage from Archive.org. It’s just a joy that every few months I get a thankful e...
My Sister Made Terrific Banana Bread
--Last month Melissa sent me a banana bread. I have to say that it was completely terrific. She wrote, i made three, gave one to a friend and kept on...
Where to buy prescripton eyeglasses…. online!
--I haven’t made the plunge yet but I’ll be taking this person’s suggestions and buying my next pair of prescription glasses online...
Go See & Hear Amazing Music in NYC June 1, 2008: Lulacruza
--These people are amazing. If you are near New York City on June 1st, you should go see them. You won’t be sorry! Here’s the email I got...
Babylon 5: The Lost Tales
--Last year there was a new Babylon 5 movie/show, “Babylon 5: The Lost Tales”. Charlotte and I saw it last month on Netflix and we quite ...
How to Avoid Paypal Fees
--If you have a “Personal” Paypal account, you can accept $500.00 USD monthly and up to 5 credit or debit card payments annually. Credit...
To the Moon, Alice!
--My name is going to the moon. Well, it’ll go around the moon a whole lot, never to actually land, but that’s beside the point. NASA...
More with the Wonderful
--My cousin Christian and his baby sister! It took a minute for Christian to warm up to being on a video chat. This was his first time. His mom tol...
Skype Video: Something Wonderful
--I bought my family webcams. We now chat on Skype with video chat often. It’s really terrific. Setting it up was easy. I’d just VNC into...
More Coachella 2008 Pix
--Here’s more images from SWARM at Coachella. This first set is from JDV Lisa and Mills and a totally awesome robotic sphere An orb cheering ...
More Coachella 2008 Pix
--Here’s more images from SWARM at Coachella. This first set is from JDV Lisa and Mills and a totally awesome robotic sphere An orb cheering ...
The Wright Brothers: Dewey Cheetum and Howe?
--“Fly! Fly and be freesued!” I’m going to have to verify the claims made in this article about the allegedly superlatively litigio...
SWARM Rocks Coachella
--I got back from Coachella Monday morning. The weekend was tremendous fun. High-points: Kraftwerk - I’ve heard bits of their music for years b...
Mozy 25% discount
--Do you want to get Mozy, my favorite backup program at 25% off? This is the best deal I’ve seen for it. When you sign up, use this promo code...
Power Tool Drag Racers
--Steven Nelson built some power tool drag racers for the upcoming competitions at Maker Faire May 3-4 and Ace International Speedway May 17-18. :-) ...
HOWTO: Be a homeopathic bioterrorist
--This HOWTO was written by Paul Kuliniewicz. Reproduced here under CC license. ——————————...
DoublingStocks.com: scam
--I clicked on a Google Ad for DoublingStocks.com. The ad and the site was very adamant about how terrific their service was. I googled around and fo...
The Beautiful Thing About Ashes: Nick Woolsey: Poi
--Charlotte and I have been learning poi spinning recently. One thing we’ve been doing is watching videos on the intertubes. We came across thi...
The Tightrope Walker’s Dream: Inspiration and Encouragement
--Today’s inspiration and encouragement comes from my downstairs neighbor. The only thing I can add is that, in the Author’s Corner, he w...
I had an out of this world experience at Yuri’s Night 2008
--At Yuri’s night 2008 at NASA Ames, they had a ride called ISS. They’d put you in this capsule and slingshot you up to the International...
Upgraded to Wordpress 2.5
--It was a bother…. almost an hour of upgrading, disabling and re-enabling plugins. And I really don’t grok the Add Media buttons. I only...
Neumann Prep
--I graduated Neumann Prep, Wayne NJ in 1987. The school closed down in 1990 or so (my classmate George had a terrible time getting a transcript from...
Click Here August 2004: Buying a Computer Part 2
--Click Here By Lee C. Sonko, Computer Consultant First, a little announcement: If you have e-mail, you should get on the PVPOA Announcements e-mail ...
Army of Darkness: Sweded
--My friend Will and the rest of Meerkat Manor made this. It’s pretty fun.. I dig Sweded movies :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQIguHlW9UY ...
9 Beet Stretch
--Jon’s blog pointed out 9 Beet Stretch. It’s Ludwig van Beethoven’s ninth symphony stretched to 24 hours, without pitch distortion...
Click Here July 2004: Buying a Computer
--“Click Here” column for the July 2004 Panther Click Here by Lee C. Sonko, Computer Consultant Before I get to this month’s topic, Buying a Computer...
Fire, heh!
--From the first time I spun fire, a few weeks ago. Fire, heh!
GunVault Manual
--Here is the manual for my GunVault model GV1000C - Mini - Deluxe. I include it here so I can’t forget how to program the darn thing. BTW, I&#...
Happy Cheese Weasel Day!
--As most people probably aren’t aware, tomorrow (April 3rd) is Cheese Weasel Day! Happy Cheese Weasel Day to you! In honor of this momentous ...
Being There
--I saw Being There with Peter Sellers the other night. I loved it absolutely. We all live in our own private world, don’t we? Being There
Mozy Discount for April 2008
--These coupon codes will get you 10% off your annual or bi-annual subscription to Mozy. They’re only good this month. So here’s what to do: First,...
I don’t like Wordpress 2.5 Image Upload
--The new Wordpress 2.5.0 image upload system has several issues. I likely won’t upgrade to 2.5 until they are fixed. I like using Flexible Up...
SWARM 2.1 is Going to the Playa
--And I’m the named artist. :-) Of course, SWARM is actually a rag tag fugitive fleet of about 25 people. But this is still pretty dern cool. ...
Click Here April 2004
--Click Here Column in The Panther for April, 2004 By Lee C. Sonko Our announcement email mailing list is still in the works. By the time you read th...
I Spin Poi
--For the last 2 months or so I’ve been taking poi spinning classes with Jon Dickinson of Fire Arts Academy and Fire Arts Collective. All IR...
reason-villege-old-spring-green-right-justified.jpg
--Internet Explorer viewers of this blog can now see what Firefox viewers have been enjoying for the last year or so… The green bar behind R...
Installed WP Super Cache
--We’ll see how well installing Super Cache goes… update 3-26-08: after a day, it’s starting to look pretty super! Page load times ...
Can’t Really Recommend Pligg
--2 weeks ago I found a CMS system called Pligg. Before using it, I took a look at the blog on the site. I noted what looked like an overly emotional...
High Fructose Corn Syrup
--In a recent calendar posting, Scott from PlantTrees.org wrote this one-liner High-Fructose Corn Syrup, High Fat Diet = Severe Liver Damage http://...
High Fructose Corn Syrup
--In a recent calendar update from Scott at PlantTrees.org, Scott interjected this one-liner: High-Fructose Corn Syrup, High Fat Diet = Severe Liver...
How to stop getting so much junk mail
--Here’s how to get off junk mail lists (via) and verified by my research Stop “prescreened” offers. Companies check your credit w...
Click Here February 2004: “Free” Services”
--This is a continuation of a republishing of a series of articles I wrote titled “Click Here”. You can find them all under the Click Her...
John T Finnegan Died Monday
--From the Pocono Record John T. Finnegan, 37, of Stroudsburg, died on Monday, March 17. Raised in Acton, Mass., he was the beloved son of Gail and R...
John Finnegan Died Monday
--From the Pocono Record John T. Finnegan, 37, of Stroudsburg, died on Monday, March 17. Raised in Acton, Mass., he was the beloved son of Gail and R...
Arthur C Clarke 1918-2008
--:-( Arthur C Clarke 1918-2008
The Price of Yeast
--Baking yeast at Whole Foods: $3 for 3 0.25 oz packets. $64/lb Baking yeast at Restaurant Depot: $2.29 for a 1lb brick. $2.29/lb Whole Foods costs 2...
Click Here January 2004: Junk Mail
--Click Here By Lee C. Sonko Last month, I told you about some websites you can visit to get off of junk postal mail and telemarketing lists. A few p...
Power Tool Drag Races!
--I just received this (wonderful) announcement. Put the PTDR on your calendar!! Ladies and Gentlemen, please brace yourselves for the following dou...
Superfund wouldn’t have saved Love Canal
--I offer this in the spirit of a previous rant of mine, Megan’s Law Wouldn’t Have Saved Megan. Remember Love Canal, that awful housing development w...
Click Here December 2003: Spam Spam Spam Egg and Spam
--Click Here originally published December 2003 in The Panther By Lee C. Sonko “Spam, spam, spam, egg and spam.” The comedy troupe Monty Python’s Fly...
Just in case you live in a hole…
--… and the only access you have to the world is through a wire connected directly to this website. This is what’s funny these days: The...
Corporate Hosted Video
--Sure, it’s easy to upload your company’s video to Youtube. It’s hosted for free and can stand virtually unlimited hits. But I can...
Youtube Hosted Video
--Sure, it’s easy to upload your company’s videos and your friend’s videos to Youtube. It’s hosted for free and can stand vir...
What I’m Reading
--Books? Feh! What I’m Reading
Garfield Minus Garfield Plus a Cat
--You’d think that Garfield Minus Garfield would equal zero. But it doesn’t. (via) And then there’s Garfield Replaced by a Cat (cl...
Mutopia: The Flaming Lotus Girls Project for Burning Man 2008
--Check out our art project, Mutopia. Ripped from the page: In 2008 we are creating Mutopia our latest collaborative project. It will celebrate the i...
This Past Weekend
--Saturday Went on 2 pretty good appointments, driving around the entire Bay (SF->San Jose->Oakland->SF) weee, I’m dizzy… Met...
Geostationary Banana Over Texas
--Isn’t it odd that this downright silly post follows such a very very serious post about Lucille Rathyen. Some truths: You’re born. You ...
Lucille Rathyen Passed Away Saturday
--Lucille Rathyen was one of the two teachers in the early years of the Gifted and Talented program (renamed “Learning Unlimited” a few y...
Humor: Toyota and Ford canoe racing
--THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT! A Japanese company (Toyota) and an American company (General Motors) decided to have a canoe race on the Missouri...
Installed Smart Archives and Exec-PHP Wordpress Plugins
--My blog archives have been ugly for a long time. :-( If the old narchives.php script is still up, take a peek at what my archives used to look like...
Click Here November 2003: Messenger Spam
--My second article for The Panther originally published November 2003 Click Here by Lee C Sonko I’m so happy to have this new column in The Pa...
gowithabc.com post
--I have temporarily removed the post I made on February 29th titled “gowithabc.com is likely a scam”. I have been communicating with the...
Gary Gygax 1938-2008
--:-( Gary Gygax 1938-2008
Airborne Homeopathic Remedy: Made by a Teacher so it HAS to be Good… or not
--This could have been done better. I mean, the placebo effect DOES work. Trouble is… (via ABCNews) … the investigation revealed that Air...
The First Mashup I Ever Heard: Stairway to Gilligan’s Island
--In 1989 I was a DJ at WMFO, Tufts radio station. I found a cart (image via) in the music library called “Stairway to Gilligan’s Island...
Mozy Discount for March 2008
--These coupon codes will get you 10% off your annual or bi-annual subscription to Mozy. They’re only good this month. So here’s what to do: First,...
Offensive Google Adsense and Section Targeting
--I’ve noticed that Google Ads sometimes serves up ads into my blog that I think are offensive (and bizarre). I’m trying to get rid of th...
Altamont Pass
--I was in Altamont Pass last week talking to a rancher about solar. Altamont Pass
Click Here October 2003: Protect Your Computer
--This was my first article for The Panther, published October 2003. It’s pretty boring stuff, but a start to my writing. This didn’t hav...
gowithabc.com is likely a scam
--Update 3-5-08: Please read the comments below before deciding. This is an ongoing discussion ———————̵...
New Wordpress Permalink Structure. Installed Permalink Redirect plugin
--Links to blog entries used to look like this: http://lee.org/blog/archives/2008/02/28/new-wordpress-permalink-structure/ I just changed it to the m...
Set up a cron job to optimize databases monthly
--I set this up mostly because Spam Karma leaves giant overhead in my Wordpress MySQL database. But it can’t hurt running it on the rest of my ...
Installed Admin Drop Down Menu for Wordpress
--Admin Drop Down Menu: You know how it always takes a few seconds to click around the Wordpress Admin Menu… first you click on “Write...
Installed Admin Drop Down Menu for Wordpress
--Admin Drop Down Menu: You know how it always takes a few seconds to click around the Wordpress Admin Menu… first you click on “Write...
Installed FLV-Embed 1.0 for Wordpress
--The interface on my end for the new FLV-Embed is prettier than the older FLV-Embed. Users won’t notice a difference. Well, it uses the newer ...
Installed FLV-Embed 1.0 for Wordpress
--The interface on my end for the new FLV-Embed is prettier than the older FLV-Embed. Users won’t notice a difference. Well, it uses the newer ...
Installed RSS-Footer Wordpress Plugin
--RSS-Footer sticks a little footer in my RSS feed that points viewers back to my blog. It helps redirect people back to the site (which is prettier ...
Installed RSS-Footer Wordpress Plugin
--RSS-Footer sticks a little footer in my RSS feed that points viewers back to my blog. It helps redirect people back to the site (which is prettier ...
Closing the Budget Gap: We’re So Screwed
--The nation’s accountant and head of the Government Accountability Office, David Walker gave a speech at the National Press Club December 17t...
Closing the Budget Gap: We’re So Screwed
--The nation’s accountant and head of the Government Accountability Office, David Walker gave a speech at the National Press Club December 17t...
A Former Client of Mine has Died
--I was just looking through some old email addresses I had. I recalled Bob Charmoy and his wife Diana. When I was The Computer Guy, I had gone to th...
A Former Client of Mine has Died
--I was just looking through some old email addresses I had. I recalled Bob Charmoy and his wife Diana. When I was The Computer Guy, I had gone to th...
Introduction: Click Here Articles from The Panther and Around The Greens
--In the coming weeks, I will republish articles I wrote under the title “Click Here”. You can find them all under the Click Here Article...
Introduction: Click Here Articles from The Panther and Around The Greens
--In the coming weeks, I will republish articles I wrote under the title “Click Here”. You can find them all under the Click Here Article...
Steel Raven Stolen
--If you have seen this steel raven, please contact me. It belongs to Haideen Anderson. Tom Kennedy’s container was broken in to at the Box Sh...
Steel Raven Stolen
--If you have seen this steel raven, please contact me. It belongs to Haideen Anderson. Tom Kennedy’s container was broken in to at the Box Sh...
El Toro has Reopened
--The best taqueria in San Francisco has reopened. It looked like El Toro was gone… it had been boarded up for several months. I spoke to the ...
El Toro has Reopened
--The best taqueria in San Francisco has reopened. It looked like El Toro was gone… it had been boarded up for several months. I spoke to the ...
American Translators Association Monopoly
--Apparently there is a new (September 2007) California law that says when a document is translated for a court case, the translator must be either a...
American Translators Association Monopoly
--Apparently there is a new (September 2007) California law that says when a document is translated for a court case, the translator must be either a...
Considering Lightbox Upgrades
--I am very fond of the WP Lightbox plugin I have on my blog. I’ve always wanted it to automatically scale images that were too large for the p...
Considering Lightbox Upgrades
--I am very fond of the WP Lightbox plugin I have on my blog. I’ve always wanted it to automatically scale images that were too large for the p...
Good Free Graph Paper Website
--Here is an excellent site to print out whatever graph paper you need. Incompetech graph paper. He’s got ALL kinds of graphpaper there. Regula...
Good Free Graph Paper Website
--Here is an excellent site to print out whatever graph paper you need. Incompetech graph paper. He’s got ALL kinds of graphpaper there. Regula...
Vista Doggie
--I added a third video to my “Vista is a Dog” post. This is fun!
Make Money the Old Fashioned Way
--My very good friend Travis has been running a few independent businesses very successfully for the last 4 years or so. He’s been growing at a...
Make Money the Old Fashioned Way
--My very good friend Travis has been running a few independent businesses very successfully for the last 4 years or so. He’s been growing at a...
What I’m Reading
--Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennet - I swear, I’ll never get through this book The New How Things Work by David Macaulay - Fun bedtime readi...
What I’m Reading
--Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennet - I swear, I’ll never get through this book The New How Things Work by David Macaulay - Fun bedtime readi...
What I want for Christmas
--A 2 ton 45 foot animatronic humpback whale update: it’s not really for sale, just a prank :-( What I want for Christmas
What I want for Christmas
--A 2 ton 45 foot animatronic humpback whale update: it’s not really for sale, just a prank :-( What I want for Christmas
Vista Doggie
--I added another video to my “Vista is a Dog” post
Installed PHP_FastCGI
--While FastCGI has been running, calls to Wordpress have gone from about 4 seconds to 2 seconds. Calls to Mediawiki have gone from 8 seconds to 5 se...
$250 HP Color Laser Printer
--I just got an HP Color Laserjet 2605dn printer. Wow, the color images come out like photographs. HP is selling them on their website for $250 after...
Old Flying Journal Folded into Wordpress
--I have copied my old Flying Journal (and) out of it’s original flat-file HTML and into Wordpress. You can now find all my old and new entries...
Mozy Discount for February 2008
--These coupon codes will get you 10% off your annual or bi-annual subscription to Mozy. They’re only good this month. So here’s what to do: First,...
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computer controlled fire poofers and giant snakes for the win!
