A call for unity (2005/02/20)
America has historically been a great country, a bastion of freedom, and I think it’s clear that we need to take action to regain our rightful place in the world. America is under attack; the enemies of the state are a clear and present danger to us. We need to do something about terrorists. We need to reclaim what is historically ours.
[read more...]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...]
Buoy (2005/01/28)
If you program in Java, take a look at Buoy. It’s a public domain interface toolkit that makes Swing look pathetic, ill-considered, and bloated. I mean, not that this is hard… But Buoy is nice.
[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...]What a strange settlement agreement. (2005/01/24)
So, I have this settlement agreement. With Complex Capital Mortgage, junk faxers extraordinaire.
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