April 2009
97 posts
How to Clean Everything You Own →
goodbye. →
I have some opinions on marriage →
I have some opinions on marriage
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Teller and the neuroscience of magic →
“The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.”
– George Carlin
What I'm doing instead of cleaning in preparation...
1. writing this blog post about not cleaning
2. twittering about how I’m not cleaning
3. backing up my iTunes folder and then copying the folder to a second computer, and then backing that one up
4. writing on Facebook about how I’m not cleaning
5. making more coffee
6. burning a DVD for someone
7. burning a few DVDs for a different someone
8. making a list of things I need to...
WatchHappy Morning!
“Silk and lace in my database
Baby, I want to interface.”
– Har Mar Superstar - “Power Lunch”
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The actor who plays Dwight (from the Office) has a... →
I love art. I have some actual art right here in my house, and I don’t mean my replica Darth Vader lightsaber.
SoulPancake is about art, but it also does one of the many things I hate (though I’m definitely not a “h8r”), which is to automatically associate ART with SOULY-TYPE NEW AGE CRAP.
New Age is kind of pejorative, so I’ll use a more socially acceptable...
Revenge!
When I was in junior high or so, I was roundly abused by a few bullies. They were dicks, because I know I was a nice boy (my mother told me this quite often). One guy in particular sticks out as being particularly nasty.
I always comforted myself with the certainty that they would get what was coming to them eventually. Rather than dwell on how to get revenge, I assured myself that the best...
Boing Boing apartment in Comcast Town
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The only thing more entertaining than seeing Boing Boing get in bed with Comcast is seeing the blog be a shill for Comcast’s lame online attention-grabber in the sure-to-be-legendary post linked above.
Boing Boing is unabashedly leftist - often posting the standard San Francisco Hipster Consensus point of view (profit is bad, sensitivity is king, pro-multiculturalism, anti-corporate,...
For Rose...: squatter's rights →
“Flawed as it is, science is the most solid god I’ve got.”
– Mary Roach - from SPOOK, pub. 2005
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“School is the only time in your life where you’re trapped in a building...”
– Howard Stern
Lazily Expositioning and Characterizing
No! Keep moving. Dwell only when necessary. If character doesn’t come out of action, rewrite.
“Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love,...”
– Penn Jillette
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What makes me think I can be one of those rare...
I’m too naïve to know better, I guess.
And I’m pretty sure I’m better than those other guys who will never finish their novels.
This is the worry: that I won’t finish it.
This is the reality: I will finish it.
And it will be awesome.
I would post an excerpt here, but you haven’t earned it yet.
I haven’t earned it yet.
Watch this space. ...
If I were really angry, kool-aid drinking apple...
Ok, I know you guys don’t like Macs, or Apple or whatever. I’m calling you out, right effing now.
1) Macs are different. Yes, they do a few things differently. Some keyboard shortcuts are different. But the keyboard is still QWERTY, and every key you use on a PC has a very simple Mac analog. So, the only reason that Macs having different key combinations would keep you from...
WatchIt was my nephew Owen’s 8th birthday yesterday. Video by his dad.
Why are all of the bees dying? →
Some clever Spaniards have an answer - a species of fungus called Nosema ceranae. And they even know how to cure it.
This Day in History, April 16th
1927 . Thomas Edison invented time machine, was visited by haggard, distracted self from future who implored younger Edison to destroy time machine to avoid causing a cataclysm called the “timepocalypse.” Edison ignored future self, went back in time to strangle young Nikola Tesla in crib, mistakingly strangled Nikoli Tesla, a man who would one day inspire Edison to invent time machine...
Secret Story Vow Number 1
No prophecies, except to mock them.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Trailer →
The movie and the books get more and more mature - though I still hold Prisoner of Azkaban above them all.
Mac 101: How to set a default printer →
