I love Linux, but I hate it. (2006/02/01)
This’ll sound strange coming from someone making a living using and writing about Linux, but it’s damn hard to take it seriously sometimes.
[read more...]Domestic Discipline: Abuse by any other name (2005/12/11)
Someone started a thread on a “lifestyle” called Domestic Discipline. This is the term used for it by some Christian groups, although similar practices are found in some Muslim communities.
[read more...]In All Things, Love (2005/12/10)
So, I started hanging around at another Christian BBS. It’s called In All Things, Love, and it is a site run by Christian principles, not just a site run by Christians. No doctrinal purity test for membership. No 12-page rules documents. Just people who have agreed to be nice and treat each other decently.
[read more...]Okay, this is just pathetic. (2005/12/08)
So, a friend of mine does fanart. (And before you ask, yes, most anime/manga publishers actively encourage fanart.)
[read more...]Bertrand Russell 3 (2005/11/29)
Well, it’s time once again for a Bertrand Russell party.
[read more...]Wow. (2005/11/14)
We have a kitten, around 10 months, running around the house. He’s energetic and bouncy, and loves to playfight; my hands are normally covered with tiny little scratches. Nothing serious, mind you.
[read more...]Ways to eke more money out of ex-customers. (2005/11/11)
So, I run an ISP as a hobby. And for that, we have various services; T1 lines, things like that.
[read more...]Never mind the numbers, I don't get what the damage is. (2005/11/10)
I recently had the opportunity, no, the privilege, to watch a court proceeding that I think would have been improved only by a car from which an unreasonably large number of clowns climbed during the course of the event. [read more...]
Fundies Said the Darndest Things (2005/11/04)
A friend of mine, Allan (a.k.a. WinAce), just died of complications from cystic fibrosis. He was perhaps best known for his very funny web page, Fundies Say the Darndest Things. Where others might have preferred to take things out of context to make them look bad, Allan went out of his way to provide links so people could evaluate the context. He removed quotes when people were offended or hurt. In this, as in most things he did, he showed compassion and grace along with his inimitable sense of humor.
[read more...]Fiddlefuckin' (2005/11/01)
We learned a new word today. The word is fiddlefuckin’, and it refers to the process of refusing to waste time trying to help someone fix the glaring errors in his stipulation to dismiss a baseless lawsuit. As you may recall, Source Lending sued my lawyer to attempt to create conflict of interest. They now want to dismiss the case, perhaps after the hilarity of the judge’s inimitable “I don’t understand your theory of damages, Mr. Mahoney”. (Apologies if the quote isn’t exactly right; the transcript isn’t done yet.) But they want to dismiss… And can’t be bothered to write a stipulation to dismiss that does not contain flagrant errors.
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