AWA revisited: We get to go there, but no thanks to spammers. (2004/09/09)
It turns out that the problem is that Anime Weekend Atlanta loses a lot of mail to spam filters. The alternative, of course, is to not get any at all; for anyone who has published addresses, trying to get by without spam filters is just a joke. (I get well over a thousand spams a day, and I’ve gotten a few hundred bounce messages from a spam run someone put one of my addresses on.)
[read more...]Unless this guy is WAY more subtle than I think he is. (2004/09/07)
We just got visited by the Stupid Thief.
[read more...]Usability, applied. (2004/09/05)
I just found this example particularly interesting.
[read more...]Can they really be this stupid? (2004/09/02)
Here’s a delightful message I just got. It’s funny enough to be interesting, so I’m including it.
[read more...]Why I'm probably not going to Anime Weekend Atlanta (2004/08/29)
When we were at Animazement, there was this guy who was talking up the Anime Weekend Atlanta art show to one of the people in our studio. He talked up the Artist’s Alley at AWA. He told her how much they’d like to have her.
[read more...]Overheard conversations (2004/08/28)
Well, one of them wasn’t exactly overheard. A bit over ten years ago, I was walking outside the movie theater at HarMar mall. (Yes, the same one where I saw the funny sign.) There were a couple of people up ahead, talking and laughing. And the guy said something to the girl, and then he walked up to me, and said “You know what? I love this girl. I really love her.” And she giggled and blushed, and they walked on their way.
[read more...]Just some scratch space. (2004/08/22)
(This post removed from CF by request of a moderator.)
Wasn’t all that long ago that Christianity was “classified as a cult”.
Conversations at their finest. (2004/08/22)
Conversations are best taken totally out of context.
[read more...]We have a churchmouse. (2004/08/19)
So, when I went to Meeting tonight, I noticed a pup tent in the coat closet. Brightly colored tent, maybe three or four feet long. Red and blue. With pastel blankets in it. I asked one of the other Friends about it, and she said “a little girl lives there”.
[read more...]What a COOL TOY! (2004/08/11)
So, I got another embedded systems gig. This time, it’s actually more a network appliance thing; firewalls, built on Soekris Net4801 boxes. These boxes are great. Three ethernet ports, one serial, power, USB. CF drive for booting from. Pluggies for a standard notebook hard drive, and a second serial port, and a MiniPCI slot for expansion.
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