Pug’s Place

take a look at the seismograph

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Everyone flee the flaming debris!

I just released a new version of IMFavorites, which primarily adds support for IMMS 1.2. Everyone be happy!

If you’re interested in playing TetriNet with me, here’s what you need to do:

1. Download a client: For Windows, For Linux
2. Tell me you want to play.
3. Connect to the server at pug.ibu02.com and play!

Theresa, James, Stephen and I play occasionally, and we’re always up for more. Just IM me using whatever medium you find accessible (Preferred: Jabber — jcjones@jabber.ufl.edu)

For the unintroduced:

TetriNet is battle Tetris. It’s a lot of fun.

The basic idea is to play tetris in your own screen and acquire special blocks by
tetrising the lines on which they’re located. These enter a queue located on
your screen and you can then “use” them on yourself or other players by
pressing a number 1-6 on your keyboard. The topmost block gets applied to
whomever is that number (peoples numbers appear next to their name while
playing). A few blocks are good, most of them are bad… attack blocks!
Randomize your opponent’s play field, blow up their “O” blocks, give them a
blockquake, delete random blocks! It’s cruel and it’s fun!

Rules and block
descriptions are here

Stubborn Storm Hangs On in Busy Hurricane Season (NY Times)

Fourth hurricane targets Florida (CNN)

If Hurricane Jeanne stays on track, and almost every model puts it plowing into Florida this weekend before veering north, 2004 will be the first year on record that the state has been struck by four hurricanes, said Frank Lepore of the National Hurricane Center.

The volumes of any n n-dimensional solids can always be simultaneously bisected by a (n - 1)-dimensional hyperplane.

Just wanted to share that.

Just in case you’re as intrigued by hurricane damage photos as I am, that’s a blog with collections of such photos.

“Do not let a woman wiggling her behind deceive you with her wheedling words. She is after your granary. The man who trusts a woman trusts thieves” (Hesiod, Works and Days 373-375)

According to this latest Carmen-comment, Katie’s family is alright as well.

A revision to Jay’s house: “Extensive structural damage” should be qualified and restated as “localized structural damage.” Most of the house is fine, just the two spots where the roof collapsed are going to need work. And the garage door.

A lot of houses in my neighborhood are much too friendly with their trees, according to Mom. Kenwood Elementary’s office, for example, has one of the massive old oak trees that grew near it lying patiently in the waiting room.

A cool thing I didn’t know: Our power generator has, for the last couple years, had the capability to plug into our house’s electrical system. Additionally, our house has a switch to throw us off the local power grid. Putting the two together mean that our generator is powering all the interior fans, two refrigerators and the freezer at home, as well as sundry power tools. That’s nifty! Rock on, Mom and Dad!

Dude…Ivan set up you the bomb and has killed all ur d00dz

Frighteningly well put.

Liz is alright, but two miles of the westbound lanes on Okaloosa Island are missing, 50 feet of the eastbound lanes are too. Navarre Beach is now cut off from the mainland.

So far I’ve been unable to get a call through to Katie’s family. I just get the rapid tones of a phone system error.

People seem to be saying this was “worse than opal”. Above is a photograph of dozens of soda machines hurled from Navarre Park into the eastbound lanes of U.S. 98. Okaloosa Island’s structures have been, literally, decimated. Those 9/10 not destroyed were likely to have been damaged.

Now begins the cleanup. I’ll post when I hear from Katie’s folks, or hear something of them.