Powdered Non Sequitur Man

The Little Endless Storybook — how on Earth did I miss this? Oh. The. Cuteness!

Lovely (and very long) article about Neil Gaiman in Publisher’s Weekly. (No idea how long it’ll stay up, but if you’ve got a spare half hour, it’s quite nice.)

(Non-geeks, don’t even bother reading this.)
Today I wrote my first PHP script — a relatively simple form that sends mail to people on a predefined list (said list to be maintained in a CSV file because I didn’t want to deal with installing MySQL and writing the extra pages to maintain the tables). Anyway, [...]

I just opened a box of Boca Burgers, took one out, removed it from its individual plastic packaging, then held on to the plastic while I tossed the patty in the trash. Whoops. I’ll be having a “well-done” burger for lunch today… and perhaps some OJ to kickstart my blood sugar so I [...]

Okay, despite my intermittent despair at the thought that we might have to fight a Constitutional amendment in order to be able to legally recognize what people are already doing anyway (to wit, marrying someone of the same gender, where “gender” is defined on a state-by-state basis — let’s not forget the perfectly legal marriages [...]

My sweetie left this article on extreme budgeting up for me to read. Interesting stuff…

Justin sent this via email:
Subject: you must be busy
I posted about a gay school and you didn’t even comment. What’s a guy gotta do, make crass homo jokes?
I hope you’re not working yourself silly. Remember to breathe.
Heh. Yes, I am busy. One of my classes ended, and the annoying project for [...]

I needed to know how to display just the first 5 lines of a set of files. So I typed in ‘man head‘. Endless amusement, I tell you…

It’s hot here today. I’m sitting here surfing the web with one of those freezable-gel icepack thingies (that we get whenever we buy salmon at the farmer’s market) sitting over the CPU on my laptop. Oy.

Sara recently posted something about finding a new author for her personal canon, which she defined as “the small number of authors whose books I return to over and over, like literary security blankets.” Which got me thinking, as I sit here mindlessly feeding CDs to my Windows box (yay, reinstalling everything!), about the [...]

California’s recall election is about to get a lot more interesting.

Garmin’s come out with a Palm that also does GPS. Very cool, has a color screen, costs less than their old ~$1000 high-end GPS receiver did (it’s about $600), and is more powerful than a 486 (200MHz plus 32MB of RAM). (= Forbes article, Garmin’s product page. (Link via Gizmodo)

This spoof on fighting games is just about the funniest damn thing I’ve seen all week. It may even be funnier than the Sluggy Dream Fighters comic strip.
(Link via Neil Gaiman)

Interesting piece on Salon about potential candidates in the upcoming California recall election. One of the names floated in addition to Schwarzenegger: Arianna Huffington. Which is a very intriguing prospect — I’d love to watch that campaign. I’ve agreed with a lot of her columns in the past few years, so [...]

Oh, and my dad called me today to say he’d been asked to speak (and they’ll pay him, even!) at some California Governor’s Conference for Women (which, he says, is the same date as the recall election for the governor). Very cool — with luck, he might even be done with his book by [...]

Wow, it’s Thursday and I haven’t posted anything here in about five days. That usually only happens when I go on vacation! (=
Have been rather busy. I spent all of Tuesday writing a speech for my speech class (tonight is the last night; I get to do a demonstration speech, and since [...]

This web gallery, “The UNH! Project,” bills itself as “a collection of guttural moans for comics.” Along the way, it also happens to explore some of the truly ludicrous badness that infests the comic-book world. Like the dude with the ping-pong ball-shooting helmet, or the physics-defying smackdowns. And some of the captions [...]

AP wire story: Schwarzenegger raises cash for campaign. This neatly encapsulates the primary problem with our current political system: It’s all about the money. There’s no discussion of Schwarzenegger’s views, or ability to get citizens interested in the issues he cares about.

This kid’s doll is supposed to be Jesus, but you know what? Except for the heart-shaped stigmata, it just kinda looks like a happy beach-frisbee-playing hippie, or maybe a pot-smoking programmer. Hmmm… makes ya wonder “What Programming Language Would Jesus Use?”
[UPDATE: Okay, I looked at the rest of the page, and I found [...]

Finally! I’ve been “almost there” on a project for a few weeks now, and it’s been making me crazy, because there’s this other program I want to write, and wanted to have started by now. Fortunately, I talked to my boss (well, he’s my boss as long as I’m working on the current [...]