September 2009
51 posts
“The book will have a first printing of 1.5 million copies, equal to the first...”
– Palin’s Book Release Moved Up - The Daily Beast
I’d love to see someone compare the syllable:word ratio of the two books.
Commercials are like camping, you know, "roughing...
Marc: This is a way better way to watch TV, without commercials.
Shannon: Oh totally.
Shannon: I don't do the subway, I don't do commercials.
“I just remembered one of my crazy dreams last night: someone called me a WASH: a...”
– Shannon. I googled it: apparently it’s been used before.
He's got me on that one, but still...
Alex: Tape backups are supposed to work.
Marc: Yeah, well, communism is supposed to work too.
Alex: Well, tapes work better than communism, I'll tell you that much.
“Just did software update to 10.6.1. Am on verge of exploding. Grr.”
– Can be fixed by downloading and reinstalling the 10.6.1 update.
“I don’t care if it’s in Japanese, I want to see it!”
– Alex on finding out that there may be something called “Bambi vs. Rambo, Redux”
Getting a book printed of a bunch of articles?
Sometime in the past year, I vaguely recall that a tumblr posted about a service they used to print a bunch of articles in book format… anyone recall or care to (re)share?
“Doppler cat is just like Heisenberg cat, but noisier.”
– me, waxing philosophic.
WatchCBS Faux Pas. Insert “White” house pun here.
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503 Msg = We're Closed
Don’t think it makes sense to do this. If the webserver is responding at all, then it’s not turned off and it’s not closed. That being the case, it makes more sense to have a “we’re closed” page that humans see when they visit the page, and ALLOW spidering of the site for others. After all, google doesn’t index most sites instantaneously (more like...
Does a corporation have the right to free speech?
to play devil’s advocate here: the US Constitution also makes no provision for computers, and it is scarcely conceivable that the drafters had anything resembling computers in mind when drafting the bill of rights. I don’t disagree with the conclusion, just the supporting argument.
A more tenable position to take here is that corporations should only enjoy those protections that are...
“Have you ever worked for a company that functions?”
– Alex
For mai tummy too, akshually.
Marc: is there a doggie equivilent of catnip?
Mike: meat.
Duh.
Shannon: you put makeup on to go to the pool?
Erin: well I had to coverup yesterday's makeup with SOMETHING.
“The gym wrote me a letter. “Come back ya fat bitch.” A little nicer...”
– Shannon
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