Alas, poor Russ! I knew him, Horatio: dude wasn’t very funny. var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-3835836-3"); pageTracker._initData(); pageTracker._trackPageview(); Tumblr (3.0; @finitejest)http://www.finitejest.com/Nicholas Brendon @ Wikipedia: After seeing some Buffy in the background of chores and such this...http://www.finitejest.com/post/4337415922http://www.finitejest.com/post/4337415922Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:46:32 -0400<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhtkxcrpfz1qz96svo1_250.png"/><br/><br/><p>In my <a title="Watson @ Finite Jest" href="http://www.finitejest.com/post/3582426477/ken-jennings-v-watson">last post</a> I mentioned how powerful it is that computers are interacting with the world in the same manner as humans. There is an <a title="Babelshot @ iTunes App Store" href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/babelshot-photo-translator/id334194705?mt=8">iPhone app</a> that can take text in a live image and TRANSLATE it. Doesn’t it seem like a computer could pretty easily OCR a URI and take you there? In short — QR codes suck. Give up on them already.</p>http://www.finitejest.com/post/3755187143http://www.finitejest.com/post/3755187143Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:15:11 -0500Ken Jennings v. Watson: The whole Watson thing was fascinating to me. There were some ninja...http://www.finitejest.com/post/3582426477http://www.finitejest.com/post/3582426477Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:25:18 -050025 Essential Cleveland Restaurants @ Cleveland Scene: I need to hit up Moxie, Michaelangelo’s,...http://www.finitejest.com/post/3326395337http://www.finitejest.com/post/3326395337Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:26:50 -0500Norris Cole of the CSU Vikings up for best point guard in the country: Go vote, it’s quick and...http://www.finitejest.com/post/3292290971http://www.finitejest.com/post/3292290971Mon, 14 Feb 2011 10:24:00 -0500<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lggdyy5LUF1qz96svo1_r1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p>Google tells me it’s Edison’s birthday. This was printed in the Cleveland Plain Dealer on 12/08/1883.</p> <p>This is from the awesome archive of the Plain Dealer, 1845-1991, <a title="Plain Dealer Archive @ CPL.org" href="http://ezp2.cpl.org/login?url=http://infoweb.newsbank.com/?db=EANX-NB">freely available to members of the Cleveland Public Library</a>.</p>http://www.finitejest.com/post/3232958492http://www.finitejest.com/post/3232958492Fri, 11 Feb 2011 07:42:00 -0500<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Yk5ufApUArQ?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Santy Clor is coming</p>http://www.finitejest.com/post/2431683768http://www.finitejest.com/post/2431683768Thu, 23 Dec 2010 10:21:59 -0500James Burke's Connections online: I recall seeing this series on PBS in high school. It’s...http://www.finitejest.com/post/2325451081http://www.finitejest.com/post/2325451081Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:30:10 -0500<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ld60cvRJYy1qz96svo1_250.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This is a real thing, I swear. They have it at the Save-a-lot near my house. For a sense of scale, each weiner is probably 5 inches long, which is bratwurst-sized but I can’t imagine you’d want to eat one on a bun… and I don’t know if it’s in a brine or a pickle or what.</p>http://www.finitejest.com/post/2154568363http://www.finitejest.com/post/2154568363Thu, 09 Dec 2010 09:31:42 -0500Cleveland Cultural Gardens: If you have ever driven Cleveland’s version of Martin Luther King...http://www.finitejest.com/post/1618587463http://www.finitejest.com/post/1618587463Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:32:00 -0500Public Transportation Calculator: With my current situation, including the fact my newly relocated...http://www.finitejest.com/post/1611479279http://www.finitejest.com/post/1611479279Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:53:16 -0500QB's @ FOOTBALL OUTSIDERS: This is the most entertaining and lightly informative grammar discussion...http://www.finitejest.com/post/1600111423http://www.finitejest.com/post/1600111423Wed, 17 Nov 2010 08:19:00 -0500How does one get in front of the planning commision for a city planning idea? I think Cleveland...http://www.finitejest.com/post/1582100507http://www.finitejest.com/post/1582100507Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:05:59 -0500Acoustic mirror - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Did you know Dungeness, famed crab-home, was in...http://www.finitejest.com/post/1501264370http://www.finitejest.com/post/1501264370Sat, 06 Nov 2010 21:18:32 -0400Sausage @ cleveland.com: Cleveland. Sausage. yeahhttp://www.finitejest.com/post/1472056268http://www.finitejest.com/post/1472056268Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:31:36 -0400<a href="http://clevelandart.wordpress.com/2010/10/26/directors-voice-my-five-favorites/">Director's Five Favorites @ The Cleveland Museum of Art</a>http://www.finitejest.com/post/1416184547http://www.finitejest.com/post/1416184547Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:17:23 -0400<a href="http://blog.iheartcleveland.com/2010/10/type-city.html">Type City @ i heart cleveland</a>http://www.finitejest.com/post/1414817005http://www.finitejest.com/post/1414817005Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:42:20 -0400<iframe width="400" height="243" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Oyi0lzbDJVc?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>What has to happen in ones brain to view this as a video of an animal, instead of a series of pictures, makes me think of Plato’s Theory of Forms. Is that obnoxious?</p>http://www.finitejest.com/post/1314080717http://www.finitejest.com/post/1314080717Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:42:00 -0400Cleveland Magazine: Ingenuity creates 130-foot waterfall off Detroit-Superior Bridge: My neighbor...http://www.finitejest.com/post/1162264663http://www.finitejest.com/post/1162264663Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:54:00 -0400Why does IE8 give me just two options with its annoying first time run, Microsoft Bob-ish dialog for...http://www.finitejest.com/post/1133465414http://www.finitejest.com/post/1133465414Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:36:16 -0400