Powdered Non Sequitur Man

So being the insufferable geek that I am, I wrote a quick page to list the posts that have been commented on most recently. I’ll clean it up later. Here’s the link.

From Lynda Barry’s latest cartoon, “In Seven Days”:
Let there be separation of worlds into first and third! By our toilets ye shall know us! And the sitters shall have dominion over the squatters! OK!

Caffeinated soap.
Yes, soap. Apparently the go-juice gets absorbed through the skin.
I’d guess that this is for people who need caffeine before they can operate the coffee machine, but people who are buying caffeinated soap can probably afford their own personal barista. So this is just completely ludicrous, and Western civilization can just stop, [...]

Well, that didn’t last long. Someone (and by “someone,” I mean “my sweetie”) suggested that perhaps the comments page was a little too busy and might look better in a popup window. While I sort of like the livejournal-style comments pages, I think she’s right.
Oh, well. At least I was able to [...]

I added an about page while I was at it.

Well, I think I’ve got the comments page working, and entirely without Javascript, at that (it’s all ASP-driven). Whee! It’s purdy.
At this point, I haven’t implemented any features to filter out malicious code in the comments, so play nice. I’d rather not slow down my nice ISP’s servers any more than I [...]

Something for me to read later: Oil as a finite resource: When is global production likely to peak?

Today’s Sluggy Freelance comic requires no knowledge of the backplot to be amusing.
“The east gate is malfunctioning! It won’t close!”
“Unleash the baby ducks.”
Baby ducks indeed…

Spent some time working on a comments page. This ASP forms stuff is getting to be more fun, or maybe it’s that I’m getting better at it. I haven’t made as dramatic an improvement in my coding as I did, say, two years ago, but I can definitely tell the difference between the [...]

Well, I’ve finished marking off my ballot and will drop it off on my way home this evening (Oregon, for those of you who don’t know, conducts elections by mail). There were far too many candidates for various posts running unopposed, and a few where I couldn’t tell the difference between the candidates, so [...]

This missive from the Department Of Things That Should Be Glaringly Obvious (DoTTSBGO) comes from an article about the difference between what we teach boys about sex and what we teach girls about sex:
Now that I am pregnant, several childless acquaintances have been pleased to learn that I’m having a boy. “I’d probably want a [...]

An old acquaintance reminded me of the existence of this site: Eugene Mirman, the marvelous crooning child. So strange.

What would Abraham Lincoln Want to Say To Us Today?
I freed whom?!!?
I’m just kidding, of course. I can think of no greater legacy to leave behind than the abolishment of such a cruel and primitive practice. That is a wonderful joke, though. And I do love a joke. Just ask Mary.
There are few [...]

I’m always frightened when code I write works.
Case in point: I had set up my publishing page so that it would always prompt me for a password. Problem is, I often edit posts a few times before I’m happy with them, and that’s a lot of entering of passwords. So I wrote [...]

Maximum Participation Billboard Liberation - these people turned a billboard into a chalkboard. Excellent!

Biked 44 miles today — 35 on the group ride, and another 9 miles round trip between home and the start/end point. Whee!

Did a minor redesign to the layout of this site. It should look *no* different to Netscape 4.x (which completely ignores most stuff to do with CSS — stupid Netscape). I’m also noticing tweaky rendering of the vertical dotted line in IE when scrolling, but I’ll overlook it for now. (Not to [...]

Also known as “getting screwed by your car.”
I just sold my car. If you add up the original purchase price, repair work, insurance costs, and the gas I bothered to record in my personal accounting software, you get a rather large and embarrassing number, reduced only slightly by the paltry sum I received in [...]

Every once in a while, you just have to hand it to those wacky Germans: the translation of this banner, hung in anticipation of a Bush visit to Berlin, reads “Peace for the World, Pretzels for Bush.” Ouch.

Lawrence Lessig is a Smart Person. I keep meaning to add his books to my guilt-shelf. I first heard about Creative Commons, a project he’s involved in, in an NPR interview he did and I thought, “hmm, that’ll be an interesting thing to check out when they put it up.” Well, it’s [...]