A Dolphin Named Tired

When I was a much younger man, I went on a family vacation to Worlds of Fun. It was maybe the first or second time I’d been there and it was mostly as advertised. Then again, I was 15 going on 16 at the time—an age more or less squarely in their target demographic. The…

The Brilliant Idea

So I’m sitting at the desk whiling away the hours until midnight by reading blogs from back when I first discovered the activity. Hats off to LukeLog and Meg (who used to be NotSoSoft back in the day). Reading as these kids / folks / people really invested a lot of effort in exploring the…

Watusi Redux

So I offered to help my pops throw together a poster that he is presenting at a conference in October. It’s his master’s thesis work and he’s noticeably nervous about the whole ordeal. I’ve put together an assfull of posters both for myself and for others at the previous jobby job so it’s not a…

Excel-lent

TeckAmok calls attention to a post on MSDN’s Excel blog which indicates that Excel just might suffer from from severe rounding problems. 2^16 seems to take on some additional values depending on how you get there… Posted to Metafilter.

MAPSU

I think I found out what my mother has been doing in her spare time lately. Honestly, she was a pretty authoritarian grassroots supporter. I stopped peeing at home because of her ruthless enforcement. Well, that and I started wiping up any stray bits after each violation of the rules. Nothing better than a naughty…

I Do The Watusi

The more I write these posts, the more I realize that they all seem to come with some bad ’80s earwig. The SWMBO’s brother is moving in with us for a bit and what runs through my mind? Howie Mandell. It’s like my attachment to novelty and found music has grown to be about seven…

FrogPad

Is is so wrong to want one? Because, even though I know they’re releasing a new version in late winter/early spring that addresses the symbol access issues faced by programmers and that it would likely reduce my typing speed, it just reeks of cool. Besides, it is theoretically better for preventing RSIs and also allows…

Rerelevant?

Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, makes a stab a relevance. Then takes a poke at some yet unmeasured portion of his readership. I thought Dilbert got old pretty quick and even voted against hiring someone in part because this person kept reciting Dilbert comic strips as evidence of his good humor during a job interview.…