Entries from March 2007

All-Nighter Successfully Pulled

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Why sleep in a wonderfully comfy bed when I can sleep on the airplane?

I am leaving my apartment for SeaTac in less than an hour, having spent the entire night packing and preparing and paying bills and all that sort of fun. My back is a bit sore and my stomach sort of hurts, likely [...]


Laurie McGuinness Mac PC Parodies

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What can I say? I’m a sucker for Ultimate Frisbee references. The other three are decent as well but none of them are quite as funny as the True Nuff “Performance” parody.


Lake Woebegone Follow-Up

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Dan Savage gives Garrison Keillor his due. Some may try to excuse Keillor’s rant as satire but there is a line and he crossed it. Not acceptable.


To Consider

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Whenever free time is magically available: Perl Primality Test One-Liner Khoi Vinh Grid-based Design


Re-Approaching a High School Level

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I will easily read two more books before I leave for Europe, putting my 2007 total at nine. Riding the bus to Belltown three days per week has certainly increased my throughput and I hope to continue the trend to consume over thirty books this year.

Saramago’s The Double easily supplanted A Fine Balance as the [...]


What has been on my brain in the last week?

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Disc, Running Product Sales Velocity Schwartzian Transform (Perl is rad) I need to spend more time on <insert project> I need to be playing MORE disc. The power of MySQL GROUP BY Garrison Keillor is not funny and possibly just an idiot. Disc, Running Shoot! I didn’t spend any time on <insert project> this week! George Lange Photography Nikon Lens Purchasing Europe is coming soon [...]


Boy Meets… Plant

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I have become somewhat desensitized to web comic humor: most of my favorites only merit polite chuckles these days. Nothing in a long time has hit my humor-ous maximus the way Penny Arcarde did circa 2002. I must, however, confess that today’s Dinosaur Comics made me genuinely L O L. ZOMG ROFLCOPTERS.

In other news, I [...]