Images of Beer

A curious site devoted to the photomicroscopy of beer. Using a variety of techniques including polarized light and refractive methods, the site has a wealth of photos of different beers. From the site home page:

Welcome to the Molecular Expressions BeerShots Website featuring photomicrographs (photographs taken through an optical microscope) of the World's most famous beers. We have arranged the beer images by country.

Molecular Expressions: The Beershots Photo Gallery

Finally Figured It Out

Thanks to South Park, the stance of the Cathlick church on sexual abuse by priests, bishops, and cardinals was made crystal clear. It was obvious that at some point during the one-get-out-of-jail-free-card policy making meeting, someone said "Holy shit! If we don't do something about this, we'll never be able to have sex with young boys again!"

Remarkably Bad Navigation

These navigation interfaces would be hilarious if they weren't intended to be serious. Maybe the site owners / designers intentionally wanted to have an example of lousy design?

Pool Selection Menu

GLOBAL SUZUKI

Um, I really don't know what to say

No comment.
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Brushing Shoulders
Finally got to meet a real, live rock star. The Cowboy Junkies played at Red Butte Garden last night (6/25) and after the show singer Margo Timmins came out for a meet and greet. Here's the obligatory cheesy fan photo of me and my new friend.

Interesting Job Posting
This sounds pretty cool.....
[From: http://192.156.97.47/jobs/observer.html ]

Weather Observer
Full-time, Year-round
This position on the Summit Staff requires individuals to live on the Summit of Mount Washington for shifts of eight days on - six days off, in a non-smoking environment.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, observing and reporting the weather, public service, and providing information to our visitors and members.

Strong interpersonal, communication, and problem solving skills, very strong outdoor orientation and hiking ability in adverse weather, and demonstrated computer skills are required.

Familiarity with METAR, National Weather Service synoptic weather observations, and back-country search and rescue experience are plusses.

To apply for the position, email résumé to jobs@mountwashington.org or fax to (603) 356-0307 or mail to:


Director of Administration
Mount Washington Observatory
P.O. Box 2310
North Conway, NH 03860

HEY YOU!!! Look at the top of this page!!!!
I'll try again. I've added a free service that will send you email whenever this page changes. Since I don't add posts daily (or even weekly sometimes), this will let you know via email that something new has appeared. It's free. They claim it's totally private and they won't give your email address to third parties. I don't know if it will increase spam specifically from the folks at Change Detection. Even I don't know nor can I find out your email address if you sign up. I only know the total number of people who have opted-in.

There are other alternatives that let you do the same type of thing, such as spyonit.com

I emphasized the visual intrusiveness of the signup form since some folks told me they didn't notice my original, apparently far-too-subtle design.

Let me know if there are any problems witht the service.
Email me -->" marc at mchrusch dot com" (convert to appropriate address form - I'm not sure if this will totally stop the spambots, but since it goes to my Yahoo account, it's not that serious)

Some Airports....
I hate short field landings.
I hate short field landings.
I hate short field landings.
I hate short field landings.
I hate short field landings.
I hate short field landings.

John Wayne International Airport in Santa Ana, California. A nice alternative if your destination is somewhere in the southeastern end of the LA basin. They don't bring in large jets, but they handle the workhorse MD-90s, B737 series, and the like. Thing is, they only have one runway that can handle commercial jets. It's a "huge" 5600' long. I swear the pilot was on the brakes and the thrust reversers before the nose gear touched. I hate short field landings.

Is it chemo?
Just caught a little of the Today Show for the first time in about 2 weeks. What the fuck happend to Matt Lauer's head? Does he have cancer? Is he on chemo? Did he fall asleep under a lawnmower?


Never Forget What the First W in WWW Means
Reacting to Anderson, seems all the big accounting firms are spinning off their consulting groups. Price-Waterhouse-Coopers is the latest, spinning off PWC Consulting and renaming to Monday. They dutifully went and built a site announcing the name change: www.introducingmonday.com but cleverly forgot that there are domains other than .com and other countries than the USA. So take a look at what some lads in the UK did.

Yep - I sure would trust them to build an international site.

Another sign of the coming apocalypse
LOS ANGELES - Looking to go where no reality series has gone before, cable television's E! Networks last week unveiled a new show about ex-model, ex-playmate and ex-wife to an oil tycoon, Anna Nicole Smith.

E! President Mindy Herman promises "The Anna Nicole Smith Show," which is set to debut in August, will give viewers an insider's look at the outlandish life of the former Guess? jeans model who this March won $88 million in a court battle against the son of her late husband over her inheritance. The former Vickie Lynn Smith, a native of Houston, Texas, started her rise to celebrity as a model and soon became a Playboy playmate in March 1992. She went on to become Playboy's Playmate of the Year and a Guess? model in 1993.

"Unlike Mary Tyler Moore, Anna Nicole will throw caution, and not her hat, to the wind," Herman said.

"My life is a roller coaster," said Smith about the TV show and what viewers will see. "People won't be able to stop watching once they tune in."


Yeah. Kinda like watching a train wreck.

A new experiment
I'm trying out one of the free notification services that will auto-send an email whenever this page changes. Since I'm using the free web space provided by my ISP, I don't have support for any cgi scripting or server-side databases. This is why I signed up with Change Detection. Let me know if there are any problems.
marc at yahoo dot com