Learning about cats by observation. (2003/09/27)
My cats were being cute, and I wanted a picture. I got out the camera.
[read more...]ToEE: Nice try. (2003/09/26)
So, I got Temple of Elemental Evil today. For the uninitiated, that’s a game for the PC. It’s based on an old D&D adventure titled, unsurprisingly, The Temple of Elemental Evil.
[read more...]Cartoons! (2003/09/25)
The Cranky User book, it turns out, is likely to have cartoons. At least one of the cartoons won’t be in the book - it’s a bit over the top. But there should be a few cartoons, to spruce things up a bit. Beloved Spouse is doing a couple, and a friend from Internet Infidels has volunteered to contribute some. YAY!
[read more...]The truth, the whole truth, or nothing like the truth. (2003/09/24)
I think I just watched a witness lie under oath today. It’s a bit weird. You know that it happens, but you never really expect to see it happen. Today, I was a witness in a trial with Mobile Cellular Unlimited. I almost settled a case with them. Watching Richard Luzaich testify was, however, quite enlightening. For one thing, he kept watching for hand signals from his lawyer.
[read more...]Car alarms. (2003/09/24)
What do these numbers have in common?
[read more...]Law enforcement to internet: FUCK YOU! (2003/09/23)
It’s time we were honest.
[read more...]The big lie (2003/09/22)
Deep in the core of mainstream religious thought is a lie so deep, so pervasive, that it often seems to have corrupted everything. This lie is the belief that to have faith, you must be totally free of doubts. It’s wrong.
[read more...]Hard Drive Failures 'R Us (2003/09/21)
I think this is probably my fifth or sixth hard drive failure this year. And, so far, it looks like I’ll make it through without serious data loss. One of my drives is being fussy about writing blocks, but I can still read from it just fine, so I’m gonna migrate all the stuff to another machine right away. This is getting weird; I guess all that stuff about keeping good backups and keeping an eye out for disk error messages really works.
[read more...]Sore Loser (2003/09/19)
We’ve reached settlements in fax cases before. What’s different is that, this time, they didn’t bail on the deal at the last minute. Which isn’t to say the one guy didn’t want to.
[read more...]Thanks Microsoft! (2003/09/18)
It’s another Microsoft Virus Day.
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