Shake, I’m Radioactive

It’s weird how I am more or less ambivalent about Cory Doctorow yet have posted enough of his musings here that I’ve considered adding a Cory Doctorow tag and re-tagging all the Cory-based posts. If you haven’t read his latest musings on the Guardian on the topic of personal information gathering and unintended consequences, well,…

Harmonic Heroics

Update: 200801231133 Turns out that I cannae read or I cannae type and have propagated this error across my archive, and now to the Internet at large… Eddy Munson is actually Eddy Manson. The album is still Harmonica and Ping Pong Percussion. You’ll have to change the spelling in your metadata for each file. I’m…

CFCL Turns 25

I’m a fantasy baseball addict. I’ve been this way ever since I had to spend a winter alone in a two room apartment in Chicago. I’ve been a member of this league since the 2000 season. While that might seem like a fair chunk of change, the league itself has been going since 1984. Your’s…

Bargain Bin STDs

10:15 Elz: maybe she got herpes 10:15 Me: lol 10:16 Me: ’tis better to give than to receive. 10:16 Elz: yewwwwwwwwwwwww 10:16 Elz: I want none of that! 10:16 Elz: Mister!!!!! 10:16 Me: It’s the thought that counts. 10:16 Elz: yeah…well….you can’t take it back 10:17 Me: It’s like getting something someone bought on clearance?…

The Slog

For the second day in a row, my commute (normally ~25 minutes) has pushed up past the 75 minute mark. I hate commuting. I hate driving. I hate the people who drive in my state. Anyway, here’s a view:

Seriously?

In the O RLY department we have this job posting on Craigslist. Among the responsibilities are developing systems that will meet the company’s needs and participate in business meetings to identify and understand the company’s goals and objectives in order to develop a system that will meet the company’s current and future business needs. So,…