This is marvelous:
[...] I, meanwhile, was raised on a diet that might strain even an Inuit’s gall bladder. We ate eggs every morning with bacon or sausage, meat for lunch, and meat again for dinner, invariably accompanied by gravy or at least pan drippings. We buttered everything from broccoli to brownies, and [...]
Oh, poo. So I won the argument with my boss. Now, of course, that means I actually have to *write* the thing. Oy. It’s fun, but I’m giving myself headaches with all the hyperconcentration. Time to go home!
Huh. So does this mean she’s going to be Maggie May? (Hm. After reading the lyrics, I actually rather hope not. But it’s still vaguely amusing. Right. Off to bed.)
Posted some new pictures:
Shots of Fort Stevens: beach, self shot, Shipwreck
Around Town: a Klingon bar, mirror shot of me on bike
I’m going to have to organize my pictures better if I post any more. Hm.
From the Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie site:
Optional:
You may augment your AFDB with random bits of foil, wire, small electronic parts, etc..
Canadian coins should also be considered as they are high in nickel content. Nickel, while not having the psychotronic deflecting properties of aluminum (or even tin), can act to refract psychotronic beams, thereby helping to [...]
Whoa. My sweetie just ran across this site: The Happiest Potties On Earth. This is — I kid you not — a site which lists, and rates, the bathrooms at Disneyland.
Critical Mass is 10 years old today! The SF Gate site has an article up about it, and also includes a shot of this absolutely beautiful poster.
(The poster can be viewed in greater detail on the artist’s site.)
With a picture like this, who needs captions? I’m with Dean on this one. If I get started, I don’t think I’ll stop for a good long while, and I do have work to finish.
(link via Textism)
[Update: Doh! It's a fake. Tom Tomorrow sets the record straight with a link [...]
Found this silly thing while cleaning out email: a product to turn your bike into a watercraft. Thanks, Justin!
Mark Twain’s piece “The War Prayer” was never published in his lifetime. He wrote, “I don’t think the prayer will be published in my time. None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.” It’s an incredibly powerful piece, and since I first became aware of it (when I was working my [...]
BBC News - France to unveil air-powered car. Cool stuff. In range and utility, it’s comparable to an electric vehicle, except that instead of using batteries, it uses air compressed at up to 4,300 psi. (By comparison, I run my bike tires at a very tight 90 psi.)
(Link via Kim Y, who [...]
In reference to a post from last week, I did win the argument. I get to start coding this really nifty new thing pretty much right away. This makes me very happy for several reasons:
I was right all along,
All the other things I was going to spend my time working on are now [...]
Here’s my obligatory post about not having posted in a while: got back from a short vacation yesterday. Details to follow.
I just ordered (among other things) a button that reads “Pacifism kicks ass.” I can hardly wait!
(psst… go here)
I think I finally won an argument I’ve been having with my boss for over a year now. I won’t bore you with the excessively geeky details, but the short version is that I wrote some quick-and-dirty code to read an especially perverse file format provided by one particular insurance company, and he seemed [...]
There’s an amusing description of what happens when you drop dry ice down an airplane toilet over at Salon today. (Scroll down to the last item.)
Sometimes I frighten myself. I was working in a database, and wanted to find out how many characters long the longest table name was. So I wrote some quickie code to find out. In less than a minute. And it worked, with no errors, the first time.
Well, George II is gonna do it (not that there was ever any doubt). He’s asked Congress to adopt a resolution he (or, rather, his staff) wrote authorizing the use of force to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
Aside from being Constitutional only in the loosest and most technical sense, and aside from the possibility that a [...]
The scene: I’m sitting at my daily lunch haunt, waiting for my order. Fellow Cyclist Guy rides up, orders, then walks over.
FCG: Mind if I share this table?
me: Go right ahead!
FCG: Thanks. I didn’t move to Portland to sit in the sun!
me: (laughing) I know exactly what you mean. So where’d [...]
At the bottom of this week’s Savage Love column is the following tidbit: Dan Savage’s new book, Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins And The Pursuit Of Happiness In America (Dutton), goes on sale Oct. 10.
Wow. I want to read it and I’m not even sure what it’s about. *That’s* a [...]