I took the What American accent do you have? quiz. I think my (American) friends, will be amused by the result:
| What American accent do you have? Your Result: North Central "North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot. | |
| The West | |
| The Midland | |
| Boston | |
| The Inland North | |
| The South | |
| Philadelphia | |
| The Northeast | |
IGN has a very long article about the Top 50 Lost Loose Ends with a discussion about each. I think they've hit on pretty much everything that's been bothering me, including:
#32: The Supply Drop
#31: Why Couldn't Desmond Leave?
#26: Libby
#24: Michael & Walt
#21: Christian's Body
#8: Locke's Legs
#5: The Unusual Connections Between Castaways
I'm moving my blog from http://www.s93608309.onlinehome.us/ to http://sendingtransmission.blogspot.com/ as my free hosting with 1&1 is going to expire soon. I'll continue posting new photos on Flickr. I know links to old photos and image are all broken, eventually I'll get around to fixing them (probably by posting older photos to Flickr). I'll see about coming up with a better template too.
Building a better HashMap is a short, but interesting, article on IBM's website about how java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap is implemented to provide much efficient concurrency than java.util.Hashtable.
...this century is the last century of wild seafood... The BBC has an article about the rapid decline of fisheries: 'Only 50 years left' for sea fish.
It reminds of Collapse, by Jared Diamond, which I just finished reading. It talked a lot of over fishing, over logging, soil erosion, pollution, over populating, etc. It's a good book.
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