Chipping the web – aplomb

April 27th, 2007 5:11:18 pm pst by Sterling Camden

Not far from tragedy, Interstate 81 passes within a few miles of Blacksburg, Virginia.

This also is not funny.

Chad Perrin, self-proclaimed introvert blogger, shares his reasons for blogging.

Randy Morin sold R|Mail to NBC.  Congratulations, Randy!  I just hope that the suits don’t make the service suck.  Rogers has more, including a question about why nobody is covering this story.

A new potentially habitable planet has been discovered orbiting the star Gliese 581.  At five times Earth’s mass, though, we’d have to come up with some means of dealing with the gravity.  I’m not ready to weigh over 800 pounds just yet.  Nevermind that we also need to figure out how to travel over 20 light years.  But hey, the Romans once thought the regions north of Germany were uninhabitable, too.  More on this and some great links from Paul Raven.

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7 Responses to “Chipping the web – aplomb”

1. Randy Charles Morin says:

   April 27, 2007 at 8:30 pm

   Thanks Chip! At least someone is covering it

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2. Chad Perrin: SOB » Incoming links can surprise you. says:

   April 28, 2007 at 12:48 am

   [...] other news, Sterling linked to me from Chip’s Quips in one of his link roundups. In particular, he directs readers to sake-drunk [...]

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3. Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. says:

   April 28, 2007 at 9:35 am

   Like I said earlier, not even /. is picking up on this and this is something that they should be picking up on. One of their own, a certified geek programmer, has sold his “hobby” to NBC.

   I offer up, once again, praise for Randy making the big time. That’s got to be an awesome feeling.

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4. Ameliorations says:

   April 28, 2007 at 9:40 am

   [...] I found the above link over here, at Chip’s Quips. [...]

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5. Randy Charles Morin says:

   April 28, 2007 at 9:46 am

   Thanks Joseph!

   Reply
6. Chipping the web - Kona -- Chip’s Quips says:

   April 30, 2007 at 1:44 pm

   [...] aplomb (from the Etymology Dictionary): “assurance, confidence,” 1828, from Fr., lit. “perpendicularity,” from phrase à plomb “poised upright, balanced,” lit. “on the plumb line,” from L. plumbum “(the metal) lead” (see plumb), of which the weight at the end of the line was made. [...]

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7. Chipping the web: October 31st -- Chip’s Quips says:

   October 31, 2008 at 6:01 pm

   [...] ServiceI hate to say I told you so about selling SendMeRSS (nee R|Mail) to NBC, but I told you so.Tags: randymorin rmail sendmerss nbc suckage [...]

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