CMU Sends Zoë to Chile's Atacama Desert

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Chile's Wine Just Fine

Chile's Wine Just Fine 05/11/2004 04:30 PM
A tough economic climate and heavy competition stunts Chile's biggest winemaker.

Chile's Pinochet victims testify

Chile's Pinochet victims testify 05/13/2004 05:10 AM
More than 30,000 Chileans say they were victims of torture or political detention under the Pinochet regime.

Chile's Pinochet Questioned by
Investigative Judge

Chile's Pinochet Questioned by
Investigative Judge 09/25/2004 07:04 PM
Reuters via Wired News Sep 25 2004 10:35PM GMT

World's Largest Copper Producer Chile's
Codelco Uses Cisco Wi-Fi in Mines

World's Largest Copper Producer Chile's
Codelco Uses Cisco Wi-Fi in Mines 12/28/2004 10:48 AM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum Dec 28 2004 2:13PM GMT

Go Digital Towards a multi-lingual net
and Chile's slum dwellers try out mobile
phones

Go Digital Towards a multi-lingual net
and Chile's slum dwellers try out mobile
phones 07/27/2004 04:24 AM
BBC Jul 27 2004 8:48AM GMT

Into the Desert

Into the Desert 07/12/2004 09:03 PM

I finally received Combat Mission: Afrika Korps (CMAK) and the companion book The Battery Commander, His Batman, and A Cook.  Woohoo!  While the game was installing, I checked out the book.  Excellent!

The battle where the book's title came from was that of Combeforce, a hastily formed group of 2,000 British anti-tank and artillery crews along with riflemen to protec them, trying to block retreating Italian 10th Army.  That's right.  2,000 men facing an army without even a single tank.  But then armies usually retreat in a line so they had to face only the forward elements and most of the armies were on road-bound vehicles (stretching for miles and miles).  As the story went, the last Italian tank was knocked out by a gun manned by the commander of 106th Battery, his batman, and a cook.

And that was just one chapter in the book.  While I enjoy reading calm accounts of battles like Rommel's classic Infantry Attack, stories like this really evoke the smell of the battle through quiet understatements and dry humor.  Only bad part about the book was that only 12 of the battles in the book had CMAK scenarios.  Darn.  I am going to browse through SMAK scenarios repositories to see if the missing scenarios have been created by other CMAK enthusiasts.  I doubt it though because you need more than just stories to create battle scenarios.  At the minimum, you need order of battle (OOB) which lists the number and types of units involved in a battle.

Firing up CMAK briefly, I remembered why I stopped playing CMBO (Combat Mission Beyond Overlord), the first volume of the series.  It was the damn artillery spotters and 88.  A well-positioned gun can stop significantly larger forces dead on its track and sometimes the only way to knock them out is with artillery or aerial bombardments.  But whenever I moved a spotter into position where he can see the gun, he gets fired on by the gun.  How can they someone far away hiding behind a bush?  Binocular reflection?  Rubbish.  Add to that the devastating power of 88 made me so fruistrated with a Bocage campaign that I stopped playing for a month and then forgot about the game.

With CMAK, unrealistic spotting ability of gunners will make some sense since there won't be many bushes to hide behind in.  One can hide behind sand dunes or bury one self in like commandos do but it's just not the same as hiding in treelines or bushes.  Anyway, I am looking forward to my desert battles for many evenings to come.

A Tale in the Desert II 1.0

A Tale in the Desert II 1.0 09/17/2004 04:27 PM
An online game set in ancient Egypt where players work together to build the perfect society.

Me running in the desert

Me running in the desert 02/01/2005 09:56 PM
I'm demoing pictures at the moment, ignore this....

Wireless in the Desert

Wireless in the Desert 09/22/2004 12:34 PM
Burning Man revelers used a free phone in the desert, courtesy of a fellow visitor: The phone used 802.11, voice over IP, and satellite for backhaul. The phone's creator offers some great information on his Web site including details of where calls where placed and anecdotes about surprised people who were very glad to find a phone....

Wi-Fi Shootout in the Desert

Wi-Fi Shootout in the Desert 08/03/2004 05:26 AM
Hackers gathering for DefCon's annual conference think they may have broken a world record for Wi-Fi connectivity. But even if they didn't, they had lots of fun trying. Kim Zetter reports from Las Vegas.

A Desert Christmas

A Desert Christmas 12/19/2004 02:58 PM

« Yölyhdyt [Night Lanterns] by Liisa Kyrönseppä in the Forces of Light installation in Plague Park. »

Today at lunchtime I looked outside and gaped since it appeared like it was almost night before noon. I thought we had escaped November but, perhaps not. I noticed a light therapy lamp in the coffee lounge and had to resist the desire to go press my eyeballs directly onto the bulb. My backpack still contains my sunglasses as if I'll need them for another 5 months or so. Always prepared for solar radiation, every fleeting moment of it. :)

Since we had to cancel our Feb/March travel plans due to the puppy coming later than expected Jarkko, in a fit of desperation after finding all the tours booked between now and when the puppy arrives in January, found a trip at one of the last minute cancelation agencies in a warm, arid place during the holidays. It's funny how back in my 20s I travelled all over on a whim and didn't think anything of it and these days I am less enthusiastic about seeing the world. It bothers me that I have become so jaded in my advancing age. It is that age old equation of Money | Time | Energy/Enthusiasm - pick any two. I retain the curiosity but it is tempered by my cynicism. I had to check to see if I'd need a visa to enter the country and if anyone ever read the US State Department's consular information sheets on various countries, noone would ever leave US airspace. They do make for amusing reading for those of us who live outside the US. Treat yourself to reading the language of fear, e.g. Finland;

SAFETY AND SECURITY : Finland remains largely free of terrorist incidents....

Largely free? What is that supposed to mean? No bombs but the lihakukko is a very dangerous weapon in the Karelian terrorist regime? Watch out for the drunks and their puukkos at the tram stops? There is also a section about how few cops there are in relation to the overall population. I suppose that living in a police state would make you uncomfortable visiting a place that doesn't have guys in fatigues and AK-47's hanging out in airports and on street corners. We're going to a place where we are warned that there is a lot of 'soccer-inspired violence' and evangelical christians are given a quick ride to the airport. :)

Desert dreams

Desert dreams 08/30/2004 01:52 PM
USA Today Aug 30 2004 5:52PM GMT

Desert Combat 0.5L Released

Desert Combat 0.5L Released 11/07/2003 08:55 AM

Slice of Heaven in the Desert

Slice of Heaven in the Desert 09/03/2004 06:24 AM
Sure, there's plenty of fire at this year's Burning Man festival, but celestial tributes dominate the playa. Daniel Terdiman reports from Black Rock City, Nevada.

dreamed i saw a desert rose

dreamed i saw a desert rose 02/05/2005 09:48 PM

Sketch is clearly feeling all the monkey (and monkey-kitty) mojo. I just talked with his vet, and he told me that Sketch is doing much, much better. He's almost completely out of congestive heart faliure! His vet told me that Sketch ate food overnight (as far as we know, he hadn't eaten all weekend), and that he was out of oxygen, sitting up, looking around, and being "very, very talkative."

I talked with his vet yesterday evening, and he told me that Sketch's lungs were about 2/3 less filled with fluid than they were on Saturday, so he was responding very well to the lasix, and his breathing was down to about 24 from as high as 50 or 80 (sorry, I can't remember exactly what it was) when we brought him in yesterday morning. It was the news I was hoping to hear, and I burst into tears of relief when I hung up the phone. I made a bit of a spectacle of myself, but I didn't (and don't) care. My fat guy is getting better.

It was kind of surreal last night to sit in the theatre at ACME and pitch my sketches for the next show. The word "sketch" was said about a thousand times (duh) and each time I heard it, my eyes filled up. I think I'm going to write a sketch about it, though. It could be pretty funny, once I clean up the gallows humor.

He will get a cardiac ultrasound later today, or early tomorrow, depending on how he's feeling, and then we'll know what his heart disease is, and how to treat it. I know he's not out of the woods yet, but there are rays of hope shining down all around us, and the path is very clear.

Thank you for all your comments and e-mails. This has been a rough few days for me and my family. Each time I've heard from someone who had a similar experience with their cat years ago, I feel a little more hopeful that Sketch will be another one of those cats who rang Death's doorbell, then ran down the walkway laughing before He could open the door.

Marine Who Vanished Says He Didn't
Desert

Marine Who Vanished Says He Didn't
Desert 07/19/2004 03:23 PM
Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Iraq, said today that he was not a deserter.

Marine Who Vanished Says He Didn't
Desert (AP)

Marine Who Vanished Says He Didn't
Desert (AP) 07/19/2004 03:10 PM
AP - Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, the Marine who disappeared under mysterious circumstances while on duty in Iraq, insisted on Monday that he was captured by enemy forces.

In the Nevada Desert for a Week...

In the Nevada Desert for a Week... 05/27/2004 05:09 PM
I'll probably be too busy preparing and packing to post much else to my weblog in the next day, so I'll post this now... (But the linkblog will stay alive. See below.) Next week (May 29th - June 5th), I will be flying my around over the Nevada desert. I'm taking part in this year's Cross Country Camp at the AirSailing Gliderport, in the Palomino Valley roughly 25 miles north of Reno and not far from Pyramid lake. I'll be...

Et Cetera: we're migrating DNS, but not
across a desert

Et Cetera: we're migrating DNS, but not
across a desert 01/26/2004 11:06 PM
Round up featuring secret knowledge of an apocryphal nature. OK, maybe not.

Desert Island Internet

Desert Island Internet 09/23/2004 03:01 PM
It's one of those slow news days, so here's a post that goes well with the story the other day about survi ving two weeks without the internet. A "desert-island" style survey that asked people what two media types they would want if they could only have two, showed that 77% of people would take the internet as either one of their first or second choices. In part, of course, this is because the internet can be used as a replacement for many of the functions served by other media types. Still, this type of thinking tends to get people confused that business models for those other media will easily shift online, when clearly, that hasn't been the case. Just because it's a replacement, doesn't mean people will pay for it the same way. Being online changes the business models as well by changing the nature of the material.

Ordeal of 'Deserters' Who Didn't Desert

Ordeal of 'Deserters' Who Didn't Desert 08/23/2004 06:59 AM
Two men falsely identified as deserters by the Indian army were released in a prisoner exchange with Pakistan, but their lives remain spoiled by the mistake.

No Riders: Desert Crossing Is for the
Robots Only

No Riders: Desert Crossing Is for the
Robots Only 03/08/2004 11:08 PM
A motley band of computer scientists, artificial intelligence experts and robot lovers is taking on the challenge of building a robot that can compete in a race without a driver.

Dog Survives Five Weeks in Desert Hole
(AP)

Dog Survives Five Weeks in Desert Hole
(AP) 05/19/2004 07:24 PM
AP - A family who left their dog for dead after a desert hiking accident five weeks ago has been reunited with the pooch after a Riverside County hiker and his brother heard it barking and pulled it from a 30-foot-deep pit.

Now, Diaper Technology Takes On a Desert

Now, Diaper Technology Takes On a Desert 07/20/2004 12:59 AM
To address the problem of landscaping desert, developers are turning to an unlikely solution: the technology used in disposable diapers.

Marine Says Was Captured in Iraq, Didn't
Desert

Marine Says Was Captured in Iraq, Didn't
Desert 07/19/2004 04:32 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jul 19 2004 8:17PM GMT

Marine who vanished says he didn't
desert (USATODAY.com)

Marine who vanished says he didn't
desert (USATODAY.com) 07/20/2004 06:26 AM
USATODAY.com - The U.S. Marine who disappeared from his base in Iraq and turned up three weeks later in Lebanon said Monday he did not desert his post.

Drone Takes to Sky Above Arizona Desert
(AP)

Drone Takes to Sky Above Arizona Desert
(AP) 06/25/2004 09:50 PM
AP - The Border Patrol launched an unmanned drone Friday that uses thermal and night-vision equipment to help agents spot illegal immigrants trying to cross the desert into the United States.

Desert Combat 0.5 Beta Released

Desert Combat 0.5 Beta Released 11/07/2003 11:10 AM

Border Desert Proves Deadly for Mexicans

Border Desert Proves Deadly for Mexicans 05/23/2004 01:53 AM
Illegal immigrants are dying in the wake of a Bush administration amnesty proposal perceived by some as a magnet to cross.

A Wi-Fi/VoIP Phone Booth In the Burning
Man Desert

A Wi-Fi/VoIP Phone Booth In the Burning
Man Desert 09/20/2004 11:21 PM

CNN.com - Genesis capsule crashes in
desert - Sep 8, 2004

CNN.com - Genesis capsule crashes in
desert - Sep 8, 2004 09/10/2004 09:17 AM

2 Iraqi Missiles Are Shot Down by U.S.
and 1 Lands in Desert

2 Iraqi Missiles Are Shot Down by U.S.
and 1 Lands in Desert 03/21/2003 08:09 AM
"Bush Orders an Assault and Says Americans Will Disarm Foe" .. that they weren't .. Saddam Hoessein .. Iraq

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RE: Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps
(Haegemonia bug)

RE: Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps
(Haegemonia bug) 03/08/2004 11:20 PM
Drew Copley (Mar 05 2004)

Key to solar mysteries crashes into Utah
desert

Key to solar mysteries crashes into Utah
desert 09/09/2004 10:46 AM
globetechnology.com Sep 9 2004 2:14PM GMT

Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps (Haegemonia
bug)

Desert Rats vs. Afrika Korps (Haegemonia
bug) 03/06/2004 01:52 AM
Luigi Auriemma (Mar 05 2004)

Iraq Desert Bombing Video Shows Carnage
(AP)

Iraq Desert Bombing Video Shows Carnage
(AP) 05/21/2004 04:06 PM
AP - Fragments of musical instruments, tufts of women's hair, and a large blood stain are among the scenes in Associated Press Television News film of a destroyed house that survivors say U.S. planes bombed during a wedding party.

Iraq desert bombing video shows carnage

Iraq desert bombing video shows carnage 05/21/2004 05:34 PM

Online only: St. Mary's rallies to win
Desert Mountain Invitational

Online only: St. Mary's rallies to win
Desert Mountain Invitational 03/27/2005 08:21 AM
Azcentral.com - Sun Mar 27, 01:02 pm GMT

Desert Gardener: How to save money on
garden seed

Desert Gardener: How to save money on
garden seed 02/10/2004 02:36 AM
Use a search engine such as Google and insert key words such as "flower seed" or "vegetable seed." Many companies will be listed. ...
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