This morning, I got an email from craigslist saying they were cancelling their email digests. By coincidence, I just went to post something there, and for the first time, was presented with a long-ass page of terms of service.
I knew craigslist was growing, but I guess it didn’t occur to me that they’d have [...]
I love being alive in this particular ficton: I just typed the phrase “power, packet and butt infrastructure” in an email to a colleague who was proposing the formation of a small Agile programming group.
For those who weren’t there (read: everyone but the_misha), the post title came from a conversation that took place in [...]
[Technically, this goes under the heading of "Home of the Stupid," but I couldn't pass up that title, which would make for an excellent Googlebomb: dry-humping the corpse of Joseph McCarthy.]
Anyway, Justin emailed me the above link, which has to do with some wacky hijinks at a New Mexico high school. Short version: [...]
What he said: Al Gore gave quite a speech yesterday at New York University. Salon has the full text. He certainly starts with a bang, and while the rest of the speech gets a bit more complex, it’s all highly worth reading. Here’s the first part:
George W. Bush promised us a [...]
Church signs, especially one on SW Barbur on my way to school, have provided me with quite a bit of entertainment, and occasionally some edification — though not, probably, the sort the authors intended. Today’s blurb, for example, continues to demonstrate this particular place’s level of rhetoric:
YOU CAN’T WALK WITH GOD AND HOLD HANDS [...]
I’m awake. I’ve been awake for one hour and twenty-three minutes, more or less, since a van parked two doors down started honking thanks to a malfunctioning car alarm. I’ve given up on sleep; now, my plan is to ride the caffeine train through until I can get back from class at about [...]
Two months ago, my old friend Trevor emailed me a link to some software. I took a quick peek at it, said, “huh,” and didn’t think much of it again. Fortunately, I had to come up with a report topic for my tech writing class, and I remembered the link.
Dasher is a program [...]
Unable to sleep, this sucks, yadda yadda yadda. I think I can probably fall asleep now…
For those of you who don’t want to bother seeing Troy, here’s Troy In Fifteen Minutes. A sample:
Secret Basement of Troy
HECTOR: Honey, things are gonna get real bad. I want you to take the baby and as many of our people down here, through this secret tunnel, and down the river to this secluded [...]
Two moderately lengthy articles, both highly interesting and thought-provoking:
The first, via Sara, is a profile of an economist who studied interaction between virtual and real economies in massively-multiplayer online roleplaying games.
The second, via Salon, has to do with the idea of “less is more” as it applies to traffic design, and should make libertarians cream [...]
The Onion wrote a headline that, sadly, reminded me of one of my friends: Asshole Admits To Being Asshole In Supreme Asshole Move.
On the other hand, there’s nothing funny about this one: U.S. To Fight Terror With Terror.
Slate’s Rape Rooms: A Chronology offers a truly jaw-dropping selection of quotes from George II, people in his administration, and reporters, arranged in (you guessed it) chronological order. It’s fascinating to see what Dubya and was saying after a number of these revelations — fascinating in the sense that dogs are fascinated by licking [...]
I must admit that I am baffled by the fascination so many seem to have with David Mamet. I don’t even remember the name of the movie it was in, but I will always remember the bit of dialogue that forever put me off his work (delivered in earnest deadpan):
him: “That makes no sense.”
her: [...]
This job announcement (via craigslist) made me chuckle:
Pilot for radio controlled airplane
Fly radio controlled airplane to chase birds from blueberry fields. Must have experience flying RC airplanes. Job begins about June 5, and lasts about 2 months. Required to do maintenace to keep planes flying.
Compensation: $10 an hour
Something Positive’s take on same-sex marriage in Massachussets is freakin’ hilarious.
The Kimberly Trip have a new CD out. Buy it; it rocks.
So I’ve been up for almost an hour, waiting to be able to breathe again, and this wire story takes away some of the sting of bodily histamine betrayal. Seems a Newsweek poll this week puts George II’s overall job approval rating at 42 percent, the lowest ever. Yay!
Memo to the world: “supposably” is not, in fact, a word. It’s “supposedly.” KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.
Most excellent: the power to our house just went out for a period of about 10-15 seconds. However, thanks to the UPS I bought a few months ago, I lost neither my Internet connection (the DSL router is plugged into the battery also) or the work I apparently forgot to save before stopping [...]
Today’s amusing spam subject line:
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