Miscellaneous Friday Notes

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For quite a while I’ve done a bad job of managing my email. I’m finally getting my inbox back in order, but there are still tens of thousands of messages — spanning the last year or so — that will probably go unread and unanswered for the near future. I’m going to do some sifting through, but I’ll probably end up declaring email bankruptcy. To everyone who I was a jerk to by not seeing their email, or not replying, I’m sorry. I will do better in the future.

Speaking of things I found deep in my inbox, T. Campbell told me he and Gisèle Lagacé were doing a comic for me last year, and I said I’d pass around the result. So here it is!

Raptor Awareness Day is this weekend! 200,000 attendees! I will spend it hiding in my attic with a tire iron and my Jurassic Park collection.

And lastly, Daniel Cohen tipped me off that apparently Nathan Fillion owns an electric skateboard, too!  To be honest, up until I saw that, I couldn’t name a single other person I knew of who had one.  I wonder if he’s interested in installing Li-On batteries (he says he only gets 6 or 7 miles to a charge).  It’s nice to know I’m not alone.  Although his is 30% more powerful than mine, so the odds would be against me in a race (unless he’s put off replacing the catalyzer on his port compression coil …)

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  4. Would you mind explaining what “Ender spacebar” is? Something to do with young Wiggin, it sounds like.

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  8. It’s where you post as someone else (typically a restricted name) by using “Name ” instead of “Name”.

    -Not actually Randall

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  9. As for Nathan Fillion’s weight, the answer may surprise you. He looks like he hits the weight room very often, and as you have probably heard before, muscle is 18% denser than fat. At his height, he could easily be in the 100 Kg range without much trouble. I (Relatively healthy young male) find that people underestimate my weight by 15% or so fairly consistently, and I am by no means “Ripped”.

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  12. Earlier this year, a few students in my Engineering class in High School took on the task of making an electric motor that could be easily attached to a skateboard. It’s finished and works great.

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  13. I use “Inbox Zero” to keep my e-mail under control. The only time I had a problem with it was when I was on vacation – but, “processing messages” versus “doing e-mail” is much more efficient. You can read about it at http://www.43folders.com/izero .

    Love xkcd – I’ve been spending time going through the archives, catching up on what I missed since my recent discovery of your fine comic. 🙂

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  14. scottwatson42@comcast.net

    Nathan Fillion arrived June 26, 2009 at Bungie to play HALO ODST in which his voice-acting brings attitude in the game, afterwords Bungie,Nathan and I/scott partied late into the night at The Central in Kirkland Washington, (Don’t get me wrong all I do is Design 1500 watt and 22500 watt electric skateboards) got to “UTUBE”, as people moved around the club I had an oppertunity to talk with Nathan about his Altered electric skateboard, apparently it has a flat tire.

    I asked him about his board “I own a Altered” well stupid me said “don’t the flat tires suck” sorry people I did not intend to be an ass.

    I have a fix for the flat tires, fill them with (A)&(B) Silicon compound at what ever pressure is supposed to be in the tires, it sets up in a day and the tire will bounce like a “SUPER BOUNCY BALL” the draw back is getting the tire off when it is worn down to the solid Core.

    I use a band saw and a tire iron when replacing my 11×6.00-5 Duro racing slicks.

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  17. As for Nathan Fillion’s weight, the answer may surprise you. He looks like he hits the weight room very often, and as you have probably heard before, muscle is 18% denser than fat. At his height, he could easily be in the 100 Kg range without much trouble. I (Relatively healthy young male) find that people underestimate my weight by 15% or so fairly consistently, and I am by no means “Ripped”.

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  18. Earlier this year, a few students in my Engineering class in High School took on the task of making an electric motor that could be easily attached to a skateboard. It’s finished and works great.

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  21. Yeah that must be quite a lot of e-mails, you’ll have to skip dinner for 2-3 years if you want to read 10k mails!

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