| Prescience |
[Sep. 26th, 2008|03:18 pm] |
Back in the 2000, a Republic friend and I were debating the upcoming election.
Her comment to me was, "Gore and Bush... they're pretty much the same. I mean the only real difference will be in appointing Supreme court judges, that's all." |
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| Wisdom of the crowds |
[Sep. 2nd, 2008|02:39 pm] |
Having a tough day and I needed some advice... so I asked Google's auto-complete thing what it thought Justice is.
Here's what I got:
- Justice is blind
- Justice is service csi
- Justice is coming
- Justice is served walkthru
- Justice is truth in action
- Justice is done
- Justice israel
- Justice is lost
- Justice isaac ejiofor
- Justice is worth it lyrics
All I can think is the third bullet is most true right now. But it doesn't mean I have to like it. Maybe my lyrics are different.
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| Reason #23 why I hate Internet-enabled phones |
[Aug. 13th, 2008|01:25 pm] |
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From the sounds emanating from the bathroom stall adjacent to mine, someone was surfing the web while straddling the can. |
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| Web2.0 Company or Infant Babble by my Daughter? |
[Aug. 5th, 2008|08:59 am] |
- Wufoo
- Tayday
- Zoho
- Buxfer
- Zeer
- Toluu
- Weeke
- Mamma
- Bizak
- Meebo
Highlight below for answers:
Web 2.0: 1,3,4,5,6,7,9
August: 2
Both:8,10
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| Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world |
[Jul. 29th, 2008|04:17 pm] |
Last week, it was meetings, resignations, and hardware crashes
This week, it's staff absences, viruses,and email outages.
Someday I hope to get something useful done. Yet, I am so tired of this crap that I'm losing all motivation to try.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity. |
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| Bring it on, bitches. Bring. It. On. |
[Jul. 22nd, 2008|05:07 pm] |
To culminate the end of our two-day marathon on management meetings at work, we're going to have some kind of Throwdown/IronChef/TopChef cooking event thing this Friday.
Nothing like a little friendly game to foster a little friendly competition.
Of course, friendly ain't in my book. My book was written by Sun Tzu.
As for competition? There isn't any.
Let's rock. |
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| Would you rather? |
[Jul. 22nd, 2008|09:32 am] |
Potentially spoiled milk (via smell test)
or
I'm taking my coffee black this morning. |
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| Nostalgia |
[Jul. 9th, 2008|04:39 pm] |
They've been buying Kellogg's individual cereal boxes for the snack room at work.
Eating one reminds me of when I was a kid and occasionally the parents bought these as a treat.
I'd savor them along with my Saturday morning cartoons.
Eating one now makes me long for Bugs Bunny. |
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| Seattle Municipal Code 25.08.500 - Unreasonable noise |
[Jul. 7th, 2008|01:27 pm] |
It is unlawful to knowingly cause, make or allow unreasonable noise to emanate from property under ones control, which disturbs another, and to refuse or intentionally fail to cease the unreasonable noise when ordered to do so by a police officer. “Unreasonable noise” includes loud, raucous, frequent, repetitive, or continuous sounds made by: animals; horns or sirens other than emergency equipment, motor vehicles being repaired, tested, etc: musical instruments or sound amplifiers; human voices, amplified, between the hours of 10:00 P.M. & 7:00 A.M.
Penalties: A violation of this section is a crime. Upon conviction, a judge may impose a maximum penalty of up to 180 days incarceration in jail, and/or up to $500 fine for violation of this code.
Note: This ordinance requires that officers first provide a warning to the offender. If the noise continues, you must be willing to call police again; 911 to report the violation and request contact. You must be willing to allow the officer to verify the noise is unreasonable from your premises and you must be willing to be identified on a police report. You may be required to testify in any resulting criminal case. |
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| Things in the office lunch room that disturb me |
[Jun. 30th, 2008|02:37 pm] |
- Crate of Cup-a-noodle from 1987
- Large jug of tequila, half consumed
- Warning sign about not using "hands to scoop" trail mix because "it's nasty"
- Nutrition label on the individual-wrapped CostCo muffins - 920 calories
- This:
- The label on the aforementioned:no refrigeration needed. So it's on the counter at room temp.
- The coffee. So bad that you need a coupla pumps of that aforementioned white ooze to make it palatable.
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| For the Cost of the Iraq war |
[Jun. 23rd, 2008|02:35 pm] |
We could have had a couple of these:
Trans-Atlantic MagLev
One from New York to London
Maybe another from LA to Honolulu |
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| What I learned today |
[Jun. 19th, 2008|02:31 pm] |
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1 lakh = 100 K |
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| No Regrets |
[Jun. 16th, 2008|09:08 am] |
Great post on why many of us parents have no regrets (up to the birth of our kids)
Parenthood as the Trump of All Past Regret
"...any change in my life prior to my children's conception would have led my children not to exist."
"...Since I wouldn't want to change any event prior to my children's conception, I have nothing to regret. And since I have nothing to regret during this period, I don't regret anything."
A fun little read that sums up something I'd been thinking about for the past year. |
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| Back from vaca |
[Jun. 9th, 2008|09:33 am] |
Back from Vegas... back to the rain, back the chaos of work, back to the inbox of 1108 unread messages.
Not much time to blog, but I'll link to this post from the great Gene Spafford under the heading Great Minds Think Alike.
Movie-clubbers, are you reading this? Perhaps it's time for you examine the merits of this fine piece of cinema history?
"Call me Snake." |
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| Quien es mas macho? |
[May. 27th, 2008|07:53 pm] |
Japanese Spider-man?
or
Italian Spider-man?
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| Who controls our data controls our lives. |
[May. 20th, 2008|03:31 pm] |
A quote worthy of Heidi: "Who controls our data controls our lives."
Great essay, Our Data, Ourselves by Bruce Schneier.
Bruce's key talent is cutting to the heart of thorny privacy and security issues in way that's accessible to noobs ordinary folks.
Coincidentally, I also was ranting about a different facet of the same jewel over my security blog earlier today. |
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