Moneydance is still the best. (2005/02/18)
A while back, I wrote about switching to Moneydance. Moneydance is a shareware home finance program.
[read more...]Even funnier art theft. (2005/02/17)
This isn’t, technically, theft. No, I’m sure it’s all very carefully considered, and legal.
[read more...]Art Theft Is Funny (2005/02/17)
I stumbled across this livejournal entry recently:
[read more...]McDonalds' nutrition charts: Obviously faked numbers (2005/02/16)
This caught my eye, while I was at McDonalds’ today. These numbers were found originally printed on the back of a placemat. The same numbers were provided by a little brochure called “A Full Serving of Nutrition Facts”, and match the information I found on the McDonald’s web page, at http://www.mcdonalds.com/app_controller.nutrition.index1.html.
[read more...]Distinguishing between vanity publishers and real publishers. (2005/02/10)
Real publishers put a lot of money into editing and printing a book in the hopes that it will sell well. They gamble. They have a lot of interest in checking work for quality.
[read more...]Understanding the difference between grape sodas. (2005/01/30)
So, I like grape soda sometimes. I had a 12-pack of Welch's "sparkling grape soda", and I liked it. And the next time I was out, there was no Welch's grape soda, but there was Fanta grape soda. I figured they would be interchangeable. I was wrong. [read more...]
The famous metanoia rant (2005/01/25)
To make a long story short, there was a funny mini-flamewar about Metanoia, and I decided to play around with the style of ranting by “defending” the comic. So I wrote this. This is not merely a bad defense. This is an awful defense. It is a parody of every bad defense ever written for poor fiction.
[read more...]The true spirit of Christmas (2004/12/25)
So, we had a real lesson today in the real meaning of Christmas.
[read more...]Woo! Bertrand Russell party time! (2004/12/24)
Just a reminder, for folks in or about Minnesota: Open party, here, starting around 1PM, running until whenever. For folks who need a place to go, just people who wanna hang out, whatever. Some food provided. Social stuff. No Christmas carols etc., but probably some mulled cider. More explanation of the Bertrand Russell party was given in an older entry.
[read more...]Nostalgia, and what made video games fun. (2004/12/20)
So, I used to have a game console; the Intellivision. It was a great toy.
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