As I wrote at the time, the Times confused what people were emailing each other with what they would be willing to pay for. If those things were the same, poems about Jesus and pictures of kittens wearing hats would have replaced gambling and porn as the internet's most profitable content.
- Megan McArdle
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Texting for somebody else's supper....
Marginal Revolution points us to this article that describes how you can donate to charities by texting.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
Meet the new boss, same as the old was....
Obama moves to reaffirm one of Bush's most blatant attacks on our civil rights.
If he thinks you need to be locked up, who even needs a court. The fact that it won't be in Cuba won't make it any better.
HT Coyote, who also links to an explanation of the missing frog legs.
If he thinks you need to be locked up, who even needs a court. The fact that it won't be in Cuba won't make it any better.
HT Coyote, who also links to an explanation of the missing frog legs.
Most informative retrospective on Michael Jackson....
This one at Language Log actually explains Ma ma se, ma ma sa, ma ma coo sa.
That practically BEGS an explanation of "chamone"!
That practically BEGS an explanation of "chamone"!
Friday, June 26, 2009
How it works
Another good post from Coyote....
It really shows how politics and individual freedom are generally at odds. I suppose it is only natural, since politics is about controlling people and individual freedom...not. Nevertheless, the less you trust government, the more power you grant it, at least according to the guys cited here. Every day, the bucket goes to the well, but one day the bottom will drop out. Or so Bob Marley said.
It really shows how politics and individual freedom are generally at odds. I suppose it is only natural, since politics is about controlling people and individual freedom...not. Nevertheless, the less you trust government, the more power you grant it, at least according to the guys cited here. Every day, the bucket goes to the well, but one day the bottom will drop out. Or so Bob Marley said.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Quote of the day
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
- Voltaire, rationalist & satirist (1694 - 1778)
From Samizdata
- Voltaire, rationalist & satirist (1694 - 1778)
From Samizdata
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Quote of the day
"Microeconomics concerns things that economists are specifically wrong about, while macroeconomics concerns things that they are wrong about generally." -P.J. O'Rourke
Wonder dog from hell....
Apparently, the dog in this Balko post got several people imprisoned for over a decade because juries are gullible. A scary thought.
Monday, June 15, 2009
Beer and Mother Teresa's sex life....
A lot of people would find the relationship tenuous at best....but this item shows how "I am not fucking Mother Teresa" can be interpreted the wrong way.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
The Kama Sutra and Chess
A rather attractive grandmaster of chess is coming out with a new book relating chess and sex. Her name is Natalia Pogonina and she is also a model and a lawyer. Sorry, she's married to another chess player already in case you boys are salivating (HT MR, by the way). Quote: We will be reviewing the most interesting openings and middlegame positions, and relating them to positions from Kamasutra. We surprise our readers by introducing the “love theory”, which is extremely effective for developing your chess skills and becoming happy in personal life. We will share unique training methods in “sexchess”, approbated by ourselves.
Yes, I feel like playing chess again all of a sudden myself.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Quote of the day
"A killer breaks a shop window, admits it, goes to prison, and gets away with a murder. But you don't accuse yourself of murder in order to cover up a broken window."
-- Andrei Makine, "The Crime of Olga Arbyelina"
-- Andrei Makine, "The Crime of Olga Arbyelina"
Sunday, June 07, 2009
White Bride in a Goth Wedding....
In case you've been irritated by music videos that just don't seem to match the words, here is your relief.
There's actually a set of these (music videos with sound and subtitles replaced by new lyrics to match the actions), brought to my attention by the blog of the enticingly geeky Jacqueline.
Oh - I challenge you to watch my favorite without giggling at least a little.
There's actually a set of these (music videos with sound and subtitles replaced by new lyrics to match the actions), brought to my attention by the blog of the enticingly geeky Jacqueline.
Oh - I challenge you to watch my favorite without giggling at least a little.
Strutting my stuff in San Antone....
One of my missions on my San Antonio trip was....
I'd bought my mother one of those electronic picture frames a few years ago. More recently, I bought her another one (having forgotten about the first). She gratefully commented that the second one would get an honored place right next to the first in a box in her closet. So I figured it was about time I helped her set these things up with pictures of her loved ones. OK, mission accomplished, and they seem nicer now that they work for her.
During the process, I found out that she often needed to re-scale pictures, and spent quite a bit of time doing so. OK, me too. Not the only one, either - once my friend Heather's mom needed to resize a couple of photos to submit to an art show, and I helped out with that. So I decided to do what I do best (no, not "Tubthumping") and write a little application for her: now she just clicks on her "scalepix" icon, fills her "c:\shrink" directory with copies of pictures she wants smaller, clicks "Go" (or optionally, sets the desired width first if she doesn't want them 400 bits wide) and everything in the "shrink" directory gets shrunk. I can use that one myself at home, and anybody that wants one is welcome to a copy.
I'd bought my mother one of those electronic picture frames a few years ago. More recently, I bought her another one (having forgotten about the first). She gratefully commented that the second one would get an honored place right next to the first in a box in her closet. So I figured it was about time I helped her set these things up with pictures of her loved ones. OK, mission accomplished, and they seem nicer now that they work for her.
During the process, I found out that she often needed to re-scale pictures, and spent quite a bit of time doing so. OK, me too. Not the only one, either - once my friend Heather's mom needed to resize a couple of photos to submit to an art show, and I helped out with that. So I decided to do what I do best (no, not "Tubthumping") and write a little application for her: now she just clicks on her "scalepix" icon, fills her "c:\shrink" directory with copies of pictures she wants smaller, clicks "Go" (or optionally, sets the desired width first if she doesn't want them 400 bits wide) and everything in the "shrink" directory gets shrunk. I can use that one myself at home, and anybody that wants one is welcome to a copy.
Friday, June 05, 2009
Detroit City
Home folks think I'm big in Detroit city.
From the letters that I write, they think I'm fine.
But by day, I make the cars,
And by night I make the bars,
If only they could read between the lines...
Nope, not making cars or bars here (shades of Rapture!), and no need to read between the lines...not that anybody thinks I'm big here. They're beginning to load people to my flight here.....so that was hardly worth paying the wireless charge.
You really feel like a homeless person when you want to find electric power at an airport!
Waiting for boarding.....
Sitting on the floor at the airport (to score some AC for my laptop) while waiting to fly from Rochester to San Antonio (connection in Detroit).
Listening to Sonic Youth's Destroyed Room, the book next to my laptop is BMOC - a fun and satiric read (although it could have benefited by a copy editor, or at least a spellchecker).
In a few hours I see my mom, haven't done that for quite a while!
Listening to Sonic Youth's Destroyed Room, the book next to my laptop is BMOC - a fun and satiric read (although it could have benefited by a copy editor, or at least a spellchecker).
In a few hours I see my mom, haven't done that for quite a while!
Thursday, June 04, 2009
Monday, June 01, 2009
22 years of marriage, many more of life!
Saturday was my 22nd wedding anniversary, tomorrow is my birthday. Jocelyn decided to make a combined gift for me....sort of a surprise. Yesterday I was to have some clothes packed away for mysterious purposes. Naturally surprises of this sort are bound to be a bit disappointing (how could they possibly live up to the odd things in your own imagination?), but it worked out fairly well.
Jocelyn had booked us a room at the Woodcliff. At 15:00 she had scheduled a couples massage at their spa(unlike the couples massage COURSE we had on the cruise almost 10 years ago, this was just us being massaged at adjacent tables, but it was still very pleasant and relaxing).
Then 17:45 she set up dinner at the restaurant there. I had lobster bisque and the thai spiced scallops, she had the pineapple marinated flank steak. 19:25 I took her to the Angels & Demons movie at Eastview Mall, less than a mile away (ok, but not great). Then back to the hotel bar for some jazz music and dancing....followed the next morning by a walk in Powdermill Park.
At trivia Sunday we got 13, not bad with Doug temporarily replaced by Sheila, and beating two of the other top teams, but far from the incredible winning score of 17. Then Jocelyn accompanied me to bring in my birthday with karaoke, doing "These Boots Are Made For Walking" (but not walking on me very hard) and accompanying me with Heather's help on "Tubthumping".
Celebrate, good times, come on!
Jocelyn had booked us a room at the Woodcliff. At 15:00 she had scheduled a couples massage at their spa(unlike the couples massage COURSE we had on the cruise almost 10 years ago, this was just us being massaged at adjacent tables, but it was still very pleasant and relaxing).
Then 17:45 she set up dinner at the restaurant there. I had lobster bisque and the thai spiced scallops, she had the pineapple marinated flank steak. 19:25 I took her to the Angels & Demons movie at Eastview Mall, less than a mile away (ok, but not great). Then back to the hotel bar for some jazz music and dancing....followed the next morning by a walk in Powdermill Park.
At trivia Sunday we got 13, not bad with Doug temporarily replaced by Sheila, and beating two of the other top teams, but far from the incredible winning score of 17. Then Jocelyn accompanied me to bring in my birthday with karaoke, doing "These Boots Are Made For Walking" (but not walking on me very hard) and accompanying me with Heather's help on "Tubthumping".
Celebrate, good times, come on!
Friday, May 29, 2009
Quote of the day
(he) thought, while he stroked the cat's black fur, that this contact was illusory, that he and the cat were separated as though by a pane of glass, because man lives in time, in successiveness, while the magical animal lives in the present, in the eternity of the instant.
- Jorge Luis Borges, "The South"
- Jorge Luis Borges, "The South"
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