September 2008
20 posts
this week in project management class
Fake math and flaky faux-zen platitudes!
If the equation gives you dumb results, give it different numbers!
It is what it is!
I feel like I’m being brainwashed and the final project will be to build a spaceship to take the chosen ones to Bliss Planet Pembok.
The all-text powerpoint presentation has the same effect on my fragile psyche as bright floodlights and loud country music.
Tiny Silver Death Machine: Election Coverage 2008... →
“Here in Minneapolis, a woman with a clipboard, frazzled, efficient. She reads from a printout to a group of staffers a change in schedule from the coordinating committee: the station wagons arrive at noon.”
Atwood at globeandmail.com: To be creative is, in... →
“Mr. Harper’s idea of an ordinary person is that of an envious hater without a scrap of artistic talent or creativity or curiosity, and no appreciation for anything that’s attractive or beautiful.”
Why What We Pore Over At 12 May Be The Most... →
This article touches on certain aspects of my current disillusionment with Card. Why couldn’t Card have just died when I was fifteen?
“We need to feel important enough to have fiction written about us. Otherwise, we...”
– A character in Emerald City, as quoted by Linda Diebel
please dispatch an assassin immediately
The only thing worse than Project Management for IT is the chump sitting next to me chortling loudly at Garfield Minus Garfield.
Consumerist: New Super Agency Proposed To Buy Up... →
The new super agency will then be driven out into the desert to die. It is our way.
green party [heart] open source →
Green Party MPs will: * Ensure that all new software developed for or by government is based on open standards and encourage and support a nationwide transition to FLOSS in all critical government IT…
things that are neat, part two: i like birds
Let’s get one thing straight: cormorants are fucking majestic. They are twelve times more majestic than the next most majestic bird, the heron. This is fact. If you think cormorants are terrible then you are lying to yourself and you’re probably a secret communist.
I met a woman who studies animals for science, and she wrote a paper that was published in a peer-reviewed journal about...
While My Ukulele Gently Weeps →
Phenomenal ukulele rendition of “While my Guitar Gently Weeps”. Highly recommended viewing.
Jack Layton Twitters: "Alright, poop time." →
Further evidence that Twitter is both useless and delightful.
things that are neat: part one; in which it...
Okay forget what I said. Lists of things are perfect.
Because:
Words
are so hard
to
string together
without bullet points
Susan.
Here is:
A list
Of Things That Are Neat. You knew you wanted it. You just didn’t have a name for it. Or you called it Jordan or Trab or Fulfillment.
Pictures for Sad Children: “Like wordlessly opening and closing an umbrella while staring at your...
because this world needs more broken promises and...
The Sra asked me months ago to post a list of web comics I read. I studiously ignored her because I was busy doing all these other awesome things.
They were really awesome.
Anyways, a mere list would never do. I needs to wax. I need to wax prosaic in praise of things I judge to be neat. And I can’t confine my inherent positivity to just web comics. There are a hundred thousand neat things...
media-opoly →
SNL Schoolhouse Rock parody dealing with monopolistic corporate media ownership. Sharp criticism of NBC and GE. Plus laughs! Yes I’m sure it’s from SNL.
you don't know it, but you are full of stars 'n'...
As I had secretly suspected, deep in my suspicious and black heart, the U.S. politics course really is covering present-day political happenings in everybody’s favourite flaming, wailing, hobo-stabbing apartment party.
Class assignment for Merkin American Election Night Extravaganza is drinking beer and placing bets on the outcome at the campus bar. We’ll switch to an appropriate...
it's electric
There’s a llama standing in a walkway across the campus. It’s stomping and circling and sniffing the air.
It seems so real.
how to make a music video (if you're canadian)
1. Get government dollars (this is getting harder).
2. Dance around in parkas.
3. …
4. Profit!
you may not have noticed, but... →
Google launched a web browser.
It’s pretty okay I spose.
infrastructure improvements at georgian college...
They fancied up the on-campus Tim Hortons.
That is all.