May 2006 Archives
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pot smokers rejoice!
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flickrexport is going "pro"
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police state?
God I hate July
I scream into the sky
For what it's worth
On the face of this Earth
I refuse to be denied
-- Chris Connely, Phenobarb Bambalam
Rude Pundit: "Al Gore is our Coriolanus"
NSA spying probably doesn't make us safer. Go figure...
EFF - 1, Apple - 0
Stewart/Colbert '08. I'd vote for them.
I'm not sure about The Wing Dipper, in fact, I think it scares me.
bapper would love this -- being able to switch virtual desktops by smacking your computer...
Get Cork'd.
Turns out elephants don't like treadmills either. I could have told you that.
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bruce points to another good op-ed on the nsa fiasco
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dude who parachuted...from space
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drees of GYWO fame talks. on video even!
Liberals who buy The Dixie Chicks and watch Stephen Colbert mock the president, in a very unfunny way mind you, not only undermine the Long Global War on Terrorism and Extremism (LoGWoTE) but they also smell bad and say mean things about conservatives and are unhinged and hate America. They probably think Al Gore should be in the Oval Office giving state secrets away to China while he uses the phone to ask for campaign contributions.
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People are idiots
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bruce explains privacy to the slow
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insanity
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basic rundown on raw format for n00bs
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it's like flickr for wine
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Welcome to Bushlandia!
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the last act of a desperate company
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os x svn gui client. yay!
I don't care if you are afraid of terrorists. Your fear, rational or not, does not trump my rights as a US citizen. Please stop curling up in a fetal position and begging the government to tap your phone and read your e-mail. If you feel the need to give up your rights, then do so -- but do not give up my rights. I have not conceded. You do not speak for me. I will not throw away what is rightfully mine because of your fear.
Get a f*cking grip already.
Recently there have been a number of groups coming to "spread the word" on campus. They stick to the high traffic quad area and generally are just there to have their say.
It's too bad that "their say" is basically that gays are an abomination and that most of the things that people do when they are in college will get them sent to "The Lake Of Eternal Fire." That's no way to win people over. They should take some lessons from The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, who has a beer volcano in Heaven. Hard to top that...
This guy was really giving people the business over their apparent (to him at least) paganism. I guess being a college student who likes to debate issues, even if you don't personally advocate the position you are arguing, makes you such a creature. His take on life was not uncommon to me. He had lived more than anyone else on the quad that day and therefore his opinion was better.
You see, the people he was "preaching" to didn't understand because they were stupid. He had lived longer and knew what they didn't.
His list of villains was also quite interesting...he had the Mormons, Catholics, gays, and atheists. I'm sure he had more, but that's all I had to stomach to hear. You see, they weren't true Christians, especially the atheists, and when Judgement Day comes they will be left on Earth and Satan will take over while he kicks it in Heaven with Jesus.
I'm sure he and Jesus will have a good laugh while Satan savages our souls.
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. "
Verbal Kint
The Usual Suspect
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it hurts because it's true
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pope on a stick?
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You got anonimity in my firefox!
From The Cron
Take Brian Hall, a Berkeley man who recently quit his job making video games to work on other projects. His transition will be eased by the $450 a month his pirate-themed Web site (http://beej.us/pirates/)brings in through ad revenue. Number of hours Hall spends on his Web site per week: 0.
Go beej! Although, truth be told...I'll always think of him as a Pizza Man.
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something called "oversight."
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sign me up for this agenda
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okay, you have my attention
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beej makes The Chron
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nice little rails reference
I flamed out at my first poker tournament this weekend. I'm pretty sure I don't like poker tournaments, and it's not just because I lost1. The thing that draws me to poker night is basically the social aspect. At the tournament everyone was there for the game. Sure there was drinking, jokes, and other social stuff going on but the master of the evening was the blinds timer. I'll be glad to go back to the smaller, more comfortable Thursday night setting.
So, already the night isn't going as well as it could. As we're driving into our drive way we notice that one of our front windows is broken. The first thing that goes through my head is did we get broken into, quickly followed by "oh crap, I hope the dogs are okay." As we moved to the door we could here the dogs stirring inside, so that was a relief...we just had to keep them away from the shards of broken glass. Then we got inside and saw the blood. Lots of blood. It was on the floor and smeared all over the windows. Right then we knew what happened.
For a while now the neighbor's dog has been coming onto our front porch and stirring shit up with Bash. I've even been home when it happened and it sounds really bad when they are barking at each other through the window. This time the two of them managed to break the window. We found glass on the inside and the outside, plus Bash had a cut on her bottom lip.
So, off to talk to the neighbors about their dog. It's always fun going over to somebody's place to tell them they (by neglecting their responsibility as dog owners in a city environment) screwed your house up. It went as well as we could have expected it to go.
My folks came over and we put up a piece of plywood over the broken window. It's really a tribute to the Okie blood that runs through my veins.
We also watched Fantastic Four, which was just horrible. Avoid it like the bird flu.
Sunday was spent mostly on the pool, and by 'on' I mean trying to get the damn pump working like it should, which means that I got a great sunburn. You may call me The Irish Lobster for the next fews days...but only if you want to get punched in the neck. I watched Paycheck and while it's not the worst John Woo movie ever, his record making movies in the US is just downright sad.
Anyway...here's to next weekend being less sun-burny and having better movies to watch.
1 For the record, I was playing pretty by-the-book hold 'em and took a ridiculous number of bad beats. But then, that's what happens at tournaments...
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kos' WaPo op-ed on Hillary
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more ActiveRecord awesomeness
Sometimes I think Party Shuffle in iTunes really likes screwing with me...
A long time ago, in the same city I'm living in now, I taught workshops at CSU, Chico for Student Computing. The topics were E-mail, Using the Internet, and Beginning HTML. During the one about the Internet (you see, back in those days there was only one Internet) I would give a super-brief history as well as a bit of my personal opinion on it's strengths and weaknesses.
The best thing about the Internet is that it allows anyone to publish what they want. The worst thing about the Internet is that it allows anyone to publish what they want.
Back in those days USENET was the worlds biggest water cooler. Today it's the plethora of weblogs and "community sites" (think Daily Kos or slashdot). With the increase of publishers the problem of finding "good" writing gets harder. Various "solutions" have popped up to try and deal with this issue. Weblogs have "The A-list" and community sites have karma, rankings, and all kinds of crazy bells and whistles to try and get the cream to rise to the top. Now, while these tactics help, they are not foolproof by any stretch of the imagination and they leave out some really great writing. Alas, no scheme that deals with subjective rankings can ever be "perfect."
My friend Greg and I often muse about what we read on the internets (kids today and all their internets, they don't know how good they have it). From time to time I will get notes from Greg that are so brilliantly succinct that I feel they must be shared.
For my money, there's only two tech pundits worth reading today. I hesitate to even use the word pundit in relationship to what these guys do because it diminishes their output. These guys are hardcore analysts baby!
Greg is referring to John Gruber and John Siracusa of Daring Fireball and Ars Technica, respectively.
Both have a Mac bent certainly, especially Gruber. However they branch out into non Mac topics. Regardless of the subject matter, just enjoying these guys really take apart a subject is educational.
Educational. To me, that is the whole point of the internets. That they do it in an entertaining way is icing on the cake. I would also add Whiskey Bar to this list. When I read a post there I learn about history, politics, and economics -- typically all at the same time.
All of them make me want to be a better writer. Of course I will not get better without practicing, no matter how much I read.
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Sir Tim says "leave the net neutral"
Dear Washington Press Corps,
I'll let Spoil do the 'splainin' on Colbert.
What Scheiber and his dim-witted colleagues fail to understand is that it wasn't supposed to be entertaining to the tuxedo-clad propagandists gathered at the dinner. They were, in fact, the target.
Oh, and a nice quote from Whiskey Bar too.
Colbert's routine was designed to draw blood -- as good political satire should. It seemed obvious, at least to me, that he didn't just despise his audience, he hated it.
Still don't get it? That's too bad.
Flags. National anthem sung only in English. Lots of stupid going around. This rant over at TPM Cafe pretty much buries all the stupid. I'm still gonna need a whole lot of happy to get over it all though.
Stop embarrassing America by suggesting that the ostentatious display of exclusionary shiboleths are what unite us as a people. That's what unites the French, and that's why they get so upset when people eat the wrong goddamned cheese. I mean, the English can sing our national anthem in English. That doesn't make them more American than, um, people living and working here who left their entire life behind for a chance at the American dream.
Can I get a "Hell yeah!"?
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Gruber gets all "OHHHHH SNAP!" on the AP
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2nd edition of agile rails
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asphinctersayswhat
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why there is no real debate on Iran to be had
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Jobs p0wns the record industry
Perhaps you thought Stephen Colbert's performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner "wasn't that funny" because you and yours were the butts of at least half the jokes.
I'm just saying.
Love,
Pat
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nice little python gcal api
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Colbert's routine was designed to draw blood -- as good political satire should.
