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Something’s up. I’m talking about a conspiracy. There’s a parody of Yesterday, the Beatles song, called Leprosy (which I originally heard on Dr. Demento in the 80s). I’ve been googling for the lyrics, but all I’ve found are some failed attempts to recite it from memory (and some inferior attempts at original parody). WHY are […]

I’m doing some .Net (specifically C#) coding these days, and I need to unit test. NUnit – NUnit seems to be the most common solution, and definitely looks promising. NUnit has a stand-alone GUI and a command-line mode, and although that’s sufficient, it doesn’t appear to integrate with Visual Studio 2003 like JUnit integrates with […]

Browsing through photos of bugs on Flickr, I found a reference to whatsthatbug.com. Thanks to that site, I saw a photo (taken near where I live) of a Jerusalem Cricket. I’ve never seen such a critter, but it’s a great looking bug! I used Google Images to find a relatively high resolution picture of a […]

Whoa. Was that December? Is it 2006? A few days ago I stepped on my pocket digital camera (a Sony Cybershot DSC-T1) and broke the LCD. I am very sad about that. It wasn’t my high-end camera, but it was very respectable (5 Megapixel, 3x optical zoom, and excellent macro capabilities — most photos I’ve […]

The official Woodpress URL has changed from http://www.snark.com/~woody/wordpress/ to http://www.snark.com/woodpress/

I work near power lines. They’re above the parking lot. When I walk through the parking lot, I hear them buzz and crackle. Why do they crackle and buzz? What’s really happening up there? Specifically, what causes the crackling sound? I suggested to a co-worker that it might be arcing, but he was skeptical, since […]

A few days ago I took this photo on a walk near work. I really like the stripey pattern on this bug… and the subtle colors on the wings.

For everyone wondering what what you get when you ask my parents to do the American Gothic pose, this is it.