We flew my brother, who does construction and remodeling work, up to Portland this weekend. Between waking up yesterday and about 4:30 today, we hung out, made five trips to various hardware stores, watched a movie, and knocked the following to-do items off our list:
Bought insulation for our attic, which will save us loads [...]
Doh! Looks like Maggie forgot to renew her domain. I’ll just be double-checking the expiration date for timestream.net… tra la la.
There’s a bit in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy where Douglas Adams explains how Ford Prefect (an alien living on Earth before it got destroyed) chose his Terran name — apparently he’d gotten confused as to which was the dominant species.
Being American, I didn’t get the joke. Turns out the Ford Prefect was [...]
Normally I don’t bother reposting stuff I find on Tom Tomorrow’s site, but this one blew my tiny little mind. It seems that back in January, the Republican party outsourced a telephone-based fundraising campaign. To India.
The US Republican Party now has a band of young and enthusiastic fund-raisers in Noida and Gurgaon.
HCL eServe, [...]
I just received my third call in three days from MCI. Apparently they’re offering local loop service and trying to get people to switch, and they think that annoying the shit out of people will somehow accomplish this.
My Win2k PC just downloaded an update and prompted me to install it, and when it was done, it didn’t even ask me to reboot. I think I may faint!
I love the Web. A few days ago, my sweetie mocked me for thinking that station wagons existed in the Fifties. I’d actually forgotten about it, but I just ran across a link to a gallery of ads, several of which are from ‘48 or ‘49.
(link via boing boing)
I never really thought about it, but most of the depictions of the Ten Commandments (which are, what, 4,000 years old?) I’ve seen use Roman numerals — which are *maybe* 2,500 years old. Silly cartoonists.
This here squirrel talks a lot like Justin, especially in the bit titled “5 More Minutes.” (Probably not work-safe; requires Flash and sound, link via Sierra.)
Excellent. As far as I can tell, the statistical code I hired Russell to help me write is now producing the correct answers. Which means that we (my dad and the agencies he works with) no longer need SPSS to do our analysis. Which in turn is a Very Good Thing, because [...]
Thanks, Sierra, for pointing to today’s Dave Barry column, in which Dave is actually funny, because I wouldn’t have otherwise bothered or even remembered. There are a few nice digs at George II (and I won’t spoil the surprise), but here are some equally good ones at Gray Davis:
Gray is a Democrat, so the [...]
Raymond Chen answers the age-old question, “Why do I have to click Start to shut down Windows?”
“Holy shit, you still feed that cat?”
– Reaction from someone visiting our neighbor, upon first seeing our feline/ottoman as I was giving both cats seaweed treats.
Dammit, I want constructors and function overloading, and a forms model that doesn’t make me do lots of math to move controls around when a form resizes. Stupid VB6.
Ignoring our warnings, which I thought were quite clear, some friends of ours decided to rent Star Trek: Nemesis. They, naturally, hated it, which led to this incredibly funny plot summary.
Must remember to go to OMSI this Saturday night to see Mars.
Wow. Just got email from a friend here in Portland who says that he and his wife scored free tickets to Cycle Oregon. This is a week-long bike trip — this year’s route is 384 miles — and tickets cost $725 each. We’ve talked about doing it some year when we can [...]
Justin had a good suggestion that only took a few minutes to add:
The recent comments page will now tell you if there are new comments. There are a few caveats:
Because this uses a cookie and some people are paranoid about that, the feature won’t work until you (a) post a comment and (b) click [...]
Okay, one more from Neil Gaiman’s weblog before I get to work: Nice Hair, a fan comic which features some perennial Goth favorites… (=
So I bought 1602 #1 (Neil Gaiman’s current comic, if you’re curious) and saw “digital painting” or its semantic equivalent on the cover, and I sort of took the art for granted. I actually wasn’t that fond of the style; I found it rather distracting in a “look how perfect this is” kind of [...]