July 2010
20 posts
1 tag
While editing a policy document...
Jim: I don't know that this statement makes sense.
Ken: Yeah, I don't think "generally" works here.
Jim: Yeah, what is "generally"?
Scott: The car from "The Dukes of Hazard."
Thieves swipe thousands of laptops from Special... →
Seven thieves broke into an office of a government technology contractor, iGov—through the roof—and stole 3,000 Panasonic Toughbooks on a weekend. The police identified it, reported it to the FBI, then promptly had their memory wiped or something…
The Sheriff’s Office notified the FBI. Sheriff’s Detective David Thatcher obtained a search warrant June 23....
I Write Like Bullshit
There’s something very wrong with the site I Write Like…Dan Brown!? Are you kidding me? Bite me, IWL.
It seems a longer sample turns out something a lot less insulting…one post reports I write like Vladimir Nabokov, two James Joyce’s and an H.P. Lovecraft. Those ones are a little insulting too, but more to Nabokov, Joyce and Lovecraft. But Dan Brown? That’s a bit of...
“We are also making bars 1, 2 and 3 a bit taller so they will be easier to see.”
– Apple. I’m gonna go patent this unique signal-enhancing technology right now. Here’s what Apple meant.
June 2010
9 posts
1 tag
Be Careful What You Wish For
For months, the man police are accusing of gathering the ingredients to create volatile explosives mused – in person and online – about testing the capabilities of Toronto’s G20 security.
Friends say Byron Sonne talked about obtaining the “chemical precursors” to explosives “in an attempt to purposefully raise flags and get ‘the man’ to take a look at me… but no luck,” as he wrote on...
Secure Channel - Analysis - Security Turns Off... →
(via spaf)
[O]ne-half of the 500 security pros surveyed said social networks are among their top three biggest security risks.
Or, half of security pros don’t know what their biggest risks are. A social network is a website, nothing more, nothing less. The risk, as has been for years now, is excessive end-user privileges on a Windows desktop used to access the internet. Twitter,...
Writers, Ego, and Industry
I recently came across an editorial by Minnesota Native and New York resident Garrison Keillor. More accurately, I came across several responses lambasting Keillor’s editorial in the New York Times.
Back in the day, we became writers through the laying on of hands. Some teacher who we worshipped touched our shoulder, and this benediction saw us through a hundred defeats. And then an...
May 2010
7 posts
“Americans are and have always been credulous skeptics. They question the...”
– Mark Lilla. The Tea Party Jacobins, The New York Review of Books.
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost, 1916.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the...
April 2010
9 posts
Watchtopherchris:
Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash, in Flash. Big improvement.
(Better: Adobe Flash CS4 crashed twice while I threw this together.)
Awesome.
New Hold Steady album streaming on NPR →
Now that’s a good meatball.
Stuff I own or like -- you can ignore this unless... →
“‘Have you caught many terrorists lately?’ PC plod enquired.
My...”
– infoseccynic
Oh thank goodness I’m not the only one that goes through this!
What do you mean “that was satire?”
March 2010
9 posts
Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal: How It’s Spent -...
via nytimes.com
If the healthcare reform bill is going to cost $900 billion as I’ve heard, will that replace the “medicare” and “health” sections of this budget?
Posted via web from preposterousity | Comment »
“Because only babies and crazy people get to pretend that reality actually...”
– MM@43F
Google defines priority as (wait, since when did Google define anything?): If something is a priority, it is the most important thing you have to do or deal with, or must be done or dealt with before everything else you have to do. [Ref]
Root: Middle English priorite, from Old French,...
WatchI’ve posted this video from Hans Rosling before, but it Currently seems Relevant for some reason.
Salt & Fat: Coffee →
I struggle with sleeping in much more than she so I’m often the first one up and certainly the first one in the kitchen. She’s a coffee drinker where I prefer tea or juice most mornings but I still love to ritualistically pull down the burr grinder, carafe and French press from their top shelf and start a kettle. I fill the carafe with water as hot as the tap will allow, fill the grinder with a...