Why am I even here? (2005/01/17)
This is another post originally from ChristianForums, reproduced here so I don’t have to search for it so often. It was originally in the Apologetics forum.
[read more...]Hanoi Coding (2005/01/13)
There's a game, called Towers of Hanoi. The basic idea is that you have a bunch of disks of varying thickness, and with holes in the middle, and you start with them stacked on a central pole, and you move them to another pole. You can only move one disk at a time, and you must never place a disk on a smaller disk. There are three pegs. [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.
[read more...]Predatory lending: if you thought your life was bad... (2004/12/18)
edit, 3/4/05: I am updating this piece to make sure everything is correct. more information once I’m done.
[read more...]Court TV: Dishonest, hypocritical, spammers. (2004/12/17)
So, here’s the idea. You have a really sucky TV channel, called Court TV (or perhaps they’d rather we spelled it CourtTV). Here’s the idea. Rather than market honestly, they have shills post spam. Lots of spam. They register for a dozen message boards and post identical messages to all of them, asking questions and linking to the coverage on Court TV’s page. They don’t admit that it’s an ad, or that they’re posting the same thing everywhere; they pretend to be members of the community, hoping that no one will notice right away that, say, the user “matt81” has never posted anything but links to Court TV.
[read more...]Junk faxers demonstrate their fine grasp of the law. (2004/12/16)
Gather round, readers, and I will tell you the story of a junk faxer, demonstrating once and for all the fine grasp of legal subtleties one learns to expect. I believe these people may actually be the dumbest junk faxers I have ever sued.
[read more...]On running a Christian forum. (2004/12/12)
Someone asked, after being told that there were too many pharisees at CF, where the pharisees were. This is the response that happened. I’m not sure how much of this had much to do with me… Ironically, when I posted a copy of this at the forum in question, it was trashed quickly, by someone carefully citing several rules which it may or may not have technically broken.
[read more...]Spurious collect call charges - a new scam? "OANWEB.COM" (2004/12/11)
So, I got a call billed to my account “on behalf of Nationwide Connections, Inc.”. Listing the phone number 1-800-944-9646, and the web page www.oanweb.com. They claim that we got a 4-minute collect call, on November 7th, at 11:08 AM. We didn’t; our caller ID log shows no calls at all on November 7th, not even “OUT OF AREA”.
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