Powdered Non Sequitur Man

Why Coyote Doesn’t Give Commandments. Many thanks to tshuma for reposting the link; this is quite entertaining.

The next time you release an operating system, could you pretty please make sure the damn thing actually works?
Thanks ever so much.
Meanwhile, I’m going to restrain myself from throwing this laptop, which has nearly been reduced to an extremely expensive paperweight, on the ground and stomping on it in frustration. Apple can also take [...]

I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.4 about a week and a half ago. I started a post with a review of the new features, but I saved it and haven’t got back to it.
This is largely because the computer has been behaving very badly since the upgrade (for one, fawnapril’s user got corrupted, [...]

…okay, this weekend was more like Honda-setting, but still. Vacation Phase Two is complete; we just got back from Ashland about an hour ago. Had a great time, saw some excellent productions of plays of varying quality (more on this in separate posts, I think), hung out with my parents.
Now, a day and [...]

Note to self: never move to East Coast again. Also, avoid visiting in the summer. Or winter.
I got out of the shower half an hour ago and I’m still dripping. There were beads of sweat on my forehead before I started shaving, and my back is already soaked.

I’m feeling a wee bit ashamed at the size of my pipe.
We’re staying at this B&B, which apparently has a cable modem, and I just downloaded a new version of Java — about 34MB — in under a minute. Top speed noted was something like 720KB per second. At home, I get 29KB/second [...]

“Why hasn’t Justin played his Scrabble turn yet?”
…of course, it’s probably because I played it last night at around 11pm PST, and it’s now only, uh, 5:37am PST. On a Saturday.
That Justin. What a slacker.

Apparently it would take 978.25 cups of green tea to kill me — at least if you go by caffeine content. (The water would do me in first.)
(link via tdj

After a long day of air travel, which today seemed to involve long periods of sitting on our butts, interspersed with short periods of “where the hell are we going now,” we are now camped out at our B&B in Cambridge, Mass (no, wifi wasn’t among the selection criteria — mostly because I didn’ t [...]

Found, amusingly, on a Thinkgeek caffeine product page:
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion,
It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed,
The hands acquire shaking, the shaking becomes a warning,
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
-popular Usenet sig

(Blogging is apparently feast or famine with me. Enjoy it while it lasts!)
Today’s fluff section of the newspaper had a piece on the importance of summer camp to people (apparently some people to go to camp reunions more often than college reunions), especially what the writer called “movers and shakers” — in other words, [...]

I forget how I ran across this (the link was sitting in a textfile for a week or two), but this slide has some amusing insights into the average gameplayer’s attention to detail (gleaned through playtesting): GDC 2002: ‘The Illusion of Intelligence’ Page 19

All I can say is, it’s amazing what sort of stuff is in the Scrabble dictionaries.

…why the hell it took me so long to get around to learning how to use a source code control system. Admittedly, it’s CVS, which is about the minimum tolerable SCCS (its primary benefits seem to be that (a) it’s free and (b) it’s not Visual SourceSafe)… but you know what? With about [...]

Does anybody else find it amusing that Apple’s latest product is… a multi-button mouse? 21 years later, Mac users have more than one way to click — but there’s still a mechanical ball to get gummed up with goo. (Okay, it’s on the top and it’s really small, so it won’t pick up [...]

The only problem I have with this Australian beer ad is that I now have Carmina Burana stuck in my head (well, that tiny part of it that always gets used to create a dramatic effect, anyway). (12MB Quicktime movie, relatively worksafe, sound definitely required.)

So apparently ThinkGeek got their hands on a few cases of slide rules that had been sitting around in warehouses for a few years, and decided to sell them.
For $45 each.
Uh, guys? You do realize that this is an obsolete piece of plastic with some numbers on it? I could see $5, or [...]

Gah. I seem to’ve written myself into a spaghetti code corner with this damn PHP page. This is Not Good. Hm. Will back off and take another look at it later.

Sacramento folks: I’ll be in Sacramento for work on Aug 31 through Sep 3. Saturday the 3rd will be spent with family, but I’ll have a few lunches and dinners available if anybody would like to catch up (keep in mind that I may need a ride back to Chez McCoy near I-5 [...]

That’s not a phrase I’ve said in my life, like, ever. But check it out: the state of Arkansas Board of Education unanimously voted to implement statewide restrictions on vending machines in schools, making them off-limits until after lunch (and taking them out of elementary schools entirely), and to require that all students [...]