I am currently attending the University of Maryland Baltimore County in Baltimore, MD.

I am the Engineering Director of WMBC Campus Radio, a Student Marshal for the UMBC Police Department, and a telephone sales representative for Innospire Systems Corporation.

Every morning I go to the following sites:

• The Weather Channel for general and my local South Plainfield and Baltimore weather conditions.
• The Washington Post for national news and one of the most complete comics pages on the net (and in print).
• Slashdot for the latest techie and Linux news.
• Pilot Gear H.Q. at for the latest Palm Pilot news and third-party apps.
• Palm Station at < for some quick Palm Pilot discussion.
• Simon Strategies, Inc. for a page of the latest tech news from around the net, without commentary (although this is a subscriber service).

and then log into the WMBC computers to get my e-mail.

Mike Keesey had his dinosaur reference site Dinosauricon nominated for the Cool Site of the Day "Coolest Reference Site of the Year" award for 1998. The Dinosauricon also ranks as the number one most requested site on the GL web server for October 1998 and has been in the top ten every month for more than a year and a half.

I'm hanging out on #philosophy too much.

I was going to learn to play bass, but then I stopped.

My friends hooked me up with a CD last night that I just had a chance to review. The three South Plainfield, NJ natives, James Schnyderite, Mark Zipkin and Patrick Quilty came together to make up The Beatless. I have to admit here that their premiere CD, watr gun, was greeted by sighs and incredilous looks by the music department here at the station. Yet somehow the same material made it all the way up to #13 and above on the MP3.COM charts in the last few weeks. I can't explain it, and I don't understand it. But they're having fun and they enjoy what they do, so I'm not going to knock it. If you'd like to hear some of their songs and decide for yourself, and give them some popularity credit at the same time, check out all their songs online.

• Essay - Noah and the Ark
• Papa Smurf is a Communist

I am a UMBC Student Marshal, Middlesex County RACES Operator, Baltimore County ARES/RACES Operator, South Plainfield RACES Founding Member. Projects

Hubble Takes First Image of a Possible Planet Around Another Star and Finds a Runaway World (98-19)

I just got another few contacts added to my Six Degrees listing today, which is really cool because it makes my people surfing much more fun. I know a lot of people think it's corny, but I think the concept of six degrees of familiarity is really cool, and the site design makes it really easy to use. If you read this, then you probably know me in some way, so why not visit the site and find out how many other people you're connected to?

That's about the coolest thing to happen around here today, but in stranger news, Swatch (the watch people) have decided to release a new metric time standard, with 1000 26.4 second swatch units per day. Naturally, about 12 hours after the announcement, there was a Palm Pilot application out to measure it at the Pilot Gear Home. Reviews have been mostly mixed within my group of friends, but obviously tending towards the negative. Anti-Social.com has a bunch of the more negative comments on their site, however. Did I mention it's based around a universal standard of GMT? So if 1000 minutes to the day wasn't confusing enough, now you have no reasonable reference for the beginning or end of the day. Oh look at the time, already @311. Looks like it's probably time to get to bed. Although, I could be wrong.

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