August 2008
53 posts
fix your situation, dawson
37% of what’s wrong with this world can be blamed on the WB.
“So the singularity is the nerd way of saying, “In the future, being rich...”
– John Campbell’s Pictures for Sad Children, on Kurzweil’s singularity
“The important thing here is that the music is not in the piano. And knowledge...”
– Alan Kay, on the flawed logic of throwing computers at education systems without improving the way computer skills are taught
Automate Repetitive Typing with Snippits →
It sounds like you have to do a lot of typing to get this tool to a point where it eliminates repetitive typing. But I might still give it a shot, cause I love me some tinkering.
Our Good Earth →
We’re running out of soil. Also Charles C. Mann is neat.
28 Coolest Firefox About:Config Tricks →
hi, welcome to t.g.i. knife fights @ chainsawsuit →
oh em gee knife-fight/restaurant convergence redux!
flavour country
Relenting somewhat in our parenting efforts, we procured for the dog a chocolate flavoured chewing-type bone (artificial flavour, non-toxic, yadda).
I just watched her end an enthusiastic bout of chewing to go across the room and lick Sherry’s jeans.
I shouldn’t be surprised. This is the same dog who has, on three separate occasions, decided that the green paint on the kitchen wall...
two timetables and a microphone
I just spent 20 minutes hashing out my timetable for the coming semester. I get to take “Project Management for IT”. My heart wells up with joy.
All the fluffy elective courses (“Gen-Eds” in the parlance of our campus) were full or unavailable by the time it was my program’s turn to register, so I got stuck with US Politics. It sounded interesting at first, since the...
healthy and sheltered
We are very good dog-parents. Our puppy’s favourite treats are carrot sticks and ice cubes.
And she’s not allowed to watch The Simpsons or play with toy guns.
Creating the Innocent Killer by John Kessel →
A thoughtful essay on Ender’s Game.
Updating the BIOS using linux →
DOS no more, bitches!
Orson Scott Card Wants YOU (To Rise Up Against The... →
Cracked.com takes on OSC’s wild-eyed cries for rebellion.
Birth, death and shopping →
The rise and fall of the shopping mall.
How to mount a remote ssh filesystem using sshfs →
Soundgarden Inadvertently Reunites At Area... →
My heart screamed with joy. Gutturally. In 7/4 time.
Reconciling Sufjan Stevens: Religious Hipsters and... →
“Sufjan does sing love songs to a man, that is for sure, and whether they are to his friends, a lover, or to Jesus himself, that is a little gay.”
the pukie
Yesterday we took Cloey to the beach, where she found a spot of sand where someone had poured out a sweet, sweet beverage. Then she proceeded to eat her weight in sweet, sweet sand.
She spent last night and this morning shitting and vomiting what looks like mud. It was pretty nasty.
But Sherry nursed her back to health (and Sherry’s mother brought us something to clean the carpet) and...
