The spousal book is now available (2006/08/30)
Wow. I mean, in theory, we knew this would happen, but it’s still sort of weird. But, apparently, The God Eaters is now available for sale. That’s the Powell’s link. According to Bookfinder4u, it’s available all over. Note that there’s two different ISBN numbers for this book; one starts with “978” and ends with “3”, the other omits the “978” and ends with “0”. (That is to say, the last digit is a check digit; casting out nines will explain how it works.)
[read more...]UPS: We only pay for parts (2006/08/24)
This may be of some interest to folks who are inclined to ship things that have actual value.
[read more...]Smashing! Hand!! With hammer!!! (2006/08/23)
One of my favorite cartoons, Bob the Angry Flower, turned out a bit of political commentary:
[read more...]Windows Genuine Advantage and the Blue Screen of Death (2006/08/11)
If you aren’t a techie, it may not be immediately obvious how incredibly incompetent the people who maintain Windows are.
[read more...]Gevalia: Spamming scum (2006/08/08)
So, Kraft’s subsidiary, Gevalia, are spammers. Boy, are they spammers. They’ve been actively spamming the whole internet for years.
[read more...]Baen Books made my day. (2006/08/08)
So, I finished reading some books I had lying around. And I realized that I wanted sequels.
[read more...]Junk faxes: Back to the grind (2006/08/07)
Well, it’s been a while, and I had to replace my scanner…
[read more...]New scanner = love (2006/08/02)
So, I get a lot of junk faxes, and I sue a lot of junk faxers. I’ve been planning to get organized, and one of the things I need is scans of all the faxes.
[read more...]University of Phoenix: We don't know where we got your address (2006/07/26)
On June 27th, I got spam from University of Phoenix. It was addressed to “Dear Dawn”, but used my regular email address. A couple of emails and contact-us forms later, no luck.
[read more...]Bob Jones and the memory hole (2006/07/22)
One of the key components of Christian teaching is metanoia, or repentance. That means admitting your faults, because if you won’t admit them, you can’t really correct them. Even if you change your behavior, if you can’t admit it was wrong, you’re not changing yourself, you’re just bowing to superior firepower.
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