I am the king of all packrats. (2007/09/19)
So, I’ve been going through my old computer stuff. (Suffice it to say that the pile’s noticably bigger than it was last time.)
[read more...]New house! (2007/09/14)
We bought a house! We are moving to Northfield, MN, a small town where they have an annual celebration of the last recorded homicide, a tad over a hundred years ago.
[read more...]King of the hill (2007/09/13)
I’m donating my old computer stuff that I never use to Computer Heaven, a local computer-recycling place.
[read more...]Support the troops! (2007/09/07)
So, I’ve been talking of late to a friend who is in the military, and talking about things like Afghanistan (did you know that the US is involved in military action over there?) and Iraq (you probably heard about that one).
[read more...]Very Silly Party (2007/08/18)
I get comment spammers. Mostly I just nuke them. This one was spamming some site, but the name was great. This was the spammer’s “user name”:
[read more...]I think it's plagiarism, but I'm not sure. (2007/08/03)
So, the New Yorker’s article on spam may contain plagiarism. What’s weird about this is that the source (Spamhaus) has blanket permission to quote them with attribution, but that the quoted material, rather than being attributed, is very slightly modified.
[read more...]Woah. (2007/08/01)
Local bridge collapses, during rush hour. I don’t yet know of anyone I know who was there at the time, but it’s still pretty scary.
[read more...]Lolcat an sich! (2007/05/31)
Okay, so, lolcode is an attempt to build a programming language from lolcat captions. (One can only assume that this suggests a return to the older term for them: “cat macros”.)
[read more...]It's funny, but is it a cat macro? (2007/05/27)
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What I wish Weiss Kreuz had been (2007/05/19)
So, I was watching an anime called Weiss Kreuz, aka Knight Hunters. (Yes, I know that Weiss Kreuz is bad German for something that is not “knight hunters”. They have a hospital named “Magic Bus”, I don’t think there’s any kind of intent of coherence in the use of non-Japanese languages.)
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