New vote machines ignite feud in Emery
That’s Emery County in Utah, I believe. What first struck me about this article was that the reporter clearly does not understand even the most basic terminology about the innards of a computer: he repeatedly refers to the voting machines’ “memory” to refer to the contents of [...]
Got an email from a prof with a job lead — for a company that my current boss used to work for. While checking that out, I ran across this article titled Bad Marriage May Make You Sick. (There’s some interesting reading in the “related links” section, too.)
In lieu of actual, y’know, content, and since I don’t feel like posting pictures of the cats, here’s one I swiped from thisisnotanlj. Google for “[your name] needs” or “[your name] needs to” (and, in my case, subtract any results with “Uncle Sam” in them), post amusing results, lather, rinse, repeat.
Sam needs [to]:
Sam needs [...]
Writing code in 3 different languages using a variety of different frameworks: no problem.
Getting Mac OS X to stop changing the desktop image at random when you decide you’d like to keep one of the pictures for a while: freakin’ impossible. I uncheck the box, close the preferences window, and half an [...]
Another final exam aced, another term under the belt.
I made no friends in my Intro to Databases final today: about five minutes into the exam, after I’d finished my initial “answer all the ones you can do just right off the top of your head” pass, I started my “write down the numbers of [...]
George II is quoted on the front page of today’s Oregonian as saying (about Iraq), “If I didn’t believe we had a plan for victory, I wouldn’t leave our people in harm’s way.”
While his belief might be comforting to some, I, personally, would be slightly happier if he actually knew what that plan was.
Just a [...]
The scary church has another zinger of a marquee message. This one reads:
DONT TRUST / IN A / DEAD GUY / GET JESUS
I’m thinking that either someone’s been spiking the communion wine with crack, or the church is actually being run by a Discordian.
From the intro to the 5th edition of the Principia Discordia [...]
Spring has sproinged here in Portland. Just think: in ten days, we went from this:
…to these:
(Switched my theme back to the BBS-style; the new theme was doing funky things to my image layout and I really didn’t feel like debugging CSS this evening.)
One of the programming books I bought recently isn’t actually finished yet. The fourth “beta” version of the book was just released, with eight or ten new sections, and I went to the site to download the new version. After I entered my order details, the site had this to say for itself:
Your [...]
So I went to watch the webcast of my programming class today, which of course prompted RealPlayer to download a 12MB update of itself and then go through its invasive install YET AGAIN.
For the two of you who haven’t had the joy, RealPlayer wants to pwnz0r j00. Its default settings on install will set [...]
Apparently Memorex wants to replace the floppy disc with cute, cheap USB drives. Too bad they designed them in such a way that they won’t fit in about half of the USB setups I’ve ever seen.
(Link via Macworld)
Lest you think it’s all code and no potty humor around here… on the way home today, my bus went past a seafood store advertising “FRESH HALIBUT CHEEKS.”
We just received a lovely invitation to a wedding. Or, more specifically, an invitation from the parents of the couple, who “request the honor of your presence at the marraige [sic] of their children.”
I didn’t ask to be born like this. The typo just *leaped* off the page, ready to gouge my eyes [...]
Vernon Robinson is running for Congress in North Carolina and has, uh… an interesting campaign commercial. I repeat: Not. A. Joke.
Whatever else might be lacking in the way of actual meaningful campaign regulation, I’m actually pretty happy about the new requirement that candidates say “I approved this message” in their ads — because [...]
Not only is it shiny, but it has an LED light *and* a butane lighter. Geektoy nirvana can be yours for a mere $12.
File under “note to self”: building a better dropdown selection list for Ruby on Rails. Next time I have a few minutes, I’ll stuff this into a helper function and send it back to the author.
Um, Greg? This is at least the second time you’ve expressed interest in programming. Have you considered counseling?
Seriously, though… start here.
Rails noob to Rails pro in 17 sites or less: a collection of links from “n00b on Rails” in progressive order of sophistication, from “what’s this Rails thing?” to “implement a to-do list in Rails” and so on.
(Wow. I’m using Firefox because Safari has just crashed too many damn times now, so for once [...]
I wasn’t going to be much use for anything else this evening, so I decided to sit down with a glass of beer and upgrade my blog to the latest version of WordPress. I expected this to be a hairy process that would involve much hacking of templates and “why the hell did they [...]
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‘Nuff said.