This was on the bottom of my SoBe bottle cap today. 50 points to the first person who can, without referencing any source outside their own skull, leave a comment telling us where this quote is from (sadly, I already know so this is just for fun):
NEO-MAXIZOOMDWEEBIE
As a tip o’ the hat to good ol’ Marketing 101 — that is, if it ain’t sellin’ change the labelin’ — and rather than create any decent/clever/relevant content, other than links, for the blog, I took some time to install/configure/customize a new theme for the site. Nifty, ain’t it? :) Check out […]
It’s Talk Like A Pirate Day again! Which also means I’ve been running WordPress for a bit more than a year… Oooo aahhhh.
Just finished upgrading Wordpress to 1.5.2 from 1.5 and I have to say… I must love pain. I’m sure it’d be a breeze if I didn’t have much, or any, customization. But, as you may be able to tell, I have a Freakin’ Load(tm) of them. No customizations: upgrade in 5 minutes. […]
The article itself is interesting but I love the line I’ve excerpted below. Nothing sexist intended; I just find it humorous that “educated” people continue to view women as any less capable than men in any characteristic, psychopathic or otherwise.
Quiz: Is Your Boss a Psychopath?
…research suggests psychologists have underestimated the psychopathic propensity of women.
I’ve been catching up on reading Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle, Book One: Quicksilver the last few weeks. During last night’s reading session there was a conversation, between two of the characters, constructing an analogy between a heart pumping blood (both in and out of itself) and certain other characters’ excessive letter-writing with each other, […]
Wawona Journal
WAWONA
JOURNAL
by TOM BOPP
These pages will include bits of history, news, local
ephemera, and my own musings, as there is time.
“What’s the hottest thing you’ve ever seen?”
“Two people kissing, like they mean it.”
From boingboing:
Cory Doctorow:
Pittsburgh’s Post-Gazette has an amazing, balanced, in-depth profile on John Gilmore, the guy who Sun hired to write their first code, the guy who co-founded EFF, the guy who won’t show ID to get on an airplane:
In post 9/11 America, asking “Why?” when someone from an airline asks for identification can start some […]
A post inspired by my friend Mary:
ThinkGeek has this Swiss Memory USB module/knife geek-thingy. Mary apparently saw it at some point and sends me this email saying she doesn’t know why it would remind her of me *wink*. Hmm… me either. (Not.)
Here’s what I said to her about the Swiss Memory USB […]
A few minor plug-in related things to finish up, but mostly it’s done… four hours later. Not bad, I guess, considering all the plugins and other customizations I have installed. Not a lot of swearing at the computer either which is a pretty good measure of degree of difficulty/annoyance in the process. :) […]
Do not use the Publish button when writing a private post. It over-rides the ‘Private’ radio button without warning. :P
I hope, anyway.
To all those who in the last couple of months may have legitimately attempted to post comments and got rather brashly denied, I profusely apologize for not properly testing and configuring the comment-spam filter software I installed and stupidly assumed would “just work” with little modification. I should know better.
Argh.
I’ve now tested […]
Finally, and thanks to a number of Stardock programs, I have no more icons on my desktop (technically, they’re hidden).
Instead, there are “sliding drawer” tabs from the left side of the screen. Each drawer is a category of my own devising and contains the icons that would typically be somewhere on my desktop… if […]
Excerpt from:
Circadiana: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sleep (But Were Too Afraid To Ask)
Until not long ago, just about until electricity became ubiquitous, humans used to have a sleep pattern quite different from what we consider “normal” today. At dusk you go to sleep, at some point in the middle of the night […]
Salon.com Technology | Turmoil in blogland
Publishing tool LiveJournal nurtures a dazzling array of unorthodox subcultures. But will diversity continue to flourish in the wake of its purchase by blogging start-up Six Apart?
Excerpt from:
Bloodletters - Hack Yourself
Stop assigning blame. This is the first step. Stop assigning blame and leave the past behind you.
You know whose fault it is that your life isn’t perfect. Your boss. Your teachers. Your ex-lovers. The ones who hurt you, the ones who abused you, the ones who left you bleeding. Or even […]
If you post a legitimate comment on an article here and the system rejects it, sending a rather unpleasant email I think (default/built-in content, not mine), please let me know via email (jbala at jimbala dot net).
I’ve recently installed new comment spam software and I am still adjusting its settings. Recently, several IP addresses […]
Yeah, baby! 8-) But, this sucker’s got 390 Calories in six ounces (21g fat; 51g carbs), which is practically a diet compared to a Cold Stone milkshake (3200 Calories) but still not somethin