Thursday, February 24, 2005
In-jokes are jokes that are only funny to members of a particular group. For instance, this joke, which deals with a data error detection technique:
A byte walks into a bar.
The bartender looks up and says “Hey, what’s wrong?”
The byte replies, “Parity error.”
The bartender shakes his head. “Yeah, I thought you looked a bit [...]
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
I got my PowerBook in May of 2003. Some of you may remember my announcement when I bought it. I’m very happy with the purchase—but now I want a new machine. Maybe a dual processor G5. And a pony. And an EZ Bake Oven. This is the part [...]
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
The Metal Gear series of games has always been entertaining to me. I remember playing the first Metal Gear on the Nintendo Entertainment System, with the 8-bit sprites and two frames of animation for running. The emphasis on not being seen was an interesting departure from the “shoot first, ask questions” run and [...]
Monday, February 21, 2005
The bit over there in the “about me” blurb is fairly accurate. If it’s a longer post, odds are that I just posted the damn thing right away. Then I start noticing grammatical errors on the order of “Paris in teh teh Spring.” Then the broken links start to show up. [...]
Monday, February 21, 2005
I was getting tired of the blogger-google machine. Long wait times for logging in and posting were also tiring. Rick pointed out that I really do not benefit from this relationship, and they were just using me for content.
And now, I am going to shill for Dreamhost.
They are great. They are better [...]
Monday, February 21, 2005
Uh. Yes. Got a bit bored.
Really not much more to say, other than, “Please pardon the loose bits here and there.”
Friday, February 18, 2005
I suppose that being able to order pizza online was a natural evolution. It’s not perfect. A friend of mine once got charged $249.00 for two pizzas. They did get their money back, but it was quite a hassle. (And only somewhat embarassing when we went out to eat. When [...]