Ken Jennings
People keep telling me about this Ken Jennings guy who is on the Jeopardy tear, having won over a million dollars so far. I just can’t really stress how little I care. Seeing as how this situation is generating lots of free publicity for the game show and I presume higher ratings, [...]
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More on Technorati Flakiness
Given that I have been saying that as cool as Technorati is it frequently doesn’t work right or at all, I found this little screen shot quite amusing. There is a certain irony there between the title of my blog and the results, no? When I see my Technorati cosmos list in the lower right [...]
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Out!
Work is basically wrapped up, my desk is cleared off, my last timesheet filled out. Most of my goodbyes are said, so all I really have to do now is just get my ass out of here on the 4:30 train. It’s not a bad feeling at all.
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Technorati Flakiness
I’ve observed what seems to me to be a mismatch between the amount of reverence people have for Technorati and the robustness of the service. Lots of people seem to think Technorati is kind of a defacto standard way of ascribing conversations and determining blog coverage and the like. What I have seen in my [...]
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Google Juice
I didn’t notice when it happened, but this humble blog is now on the first page of results if you google for “evil genius”, with or without quotes. That’s pretty cool, considering most of the balance are related to the video game of that name. There was no trickery involved in this, no bombing campaign, [...]
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Time’s Up
It’s my penultimate day of work at this place. I might as well quit being coy, since it’s in my resume which is linked from this site: I’m at Orbitz. In fact, for those who are interested you can finally see something I’ve done in the public functionality. Until recently everything I had done was [...]
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Cartoonist Buttons
If anyone were in the mood to splurge on a fairly expensive and basically pointless gift for me, I’d suggest the 1975 series of cartoonist self-portrait buttons. Denis Kitchen (who was a delight to work with every time I dealt with him for the radio show) is selling this series. I’m not saying to run [...]
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Dymaxion Postage
The Buckminster Fuller stamps are out! I will be going to the post office and buying several loads of them, to use on my geekish correspondence until they finally run out. This may prompt me to write more paper correspondence, just to that I can use these stamps!
Previous Bucky posts here include the one about [...]
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More Descendant Copyright Nonsense
I’ll admit that I am now sensitized to grit my teeth whenever I hear about these copyright suits filed by heirs, and today I see a prototypical example of why that is. On Boing Boing I saw this story about how Tolkien’s descendants are lawyering to limit the use of the word “shire”. Give me [...]
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Bionics in Mexico
Folks in the science fiction and comic book fandom are predominantly fascinated with Japanese and anime culture (see the hierarchy of Japan fanciers here) but as I’ve said here, I’m way more interested in Mexico and its culture. Here’s another cool tidbit from there: the Attorney General has been implanted with a microchip that will [...]
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Knightriders
For Christmas, my brother got me the DVD of the movie Knightriders. I wrote a little about my history with the film at the time. I watched the movie itself two weekends ago for the first time in a few years. Today I finished watching the film with the commentary track on. I have to [...]
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Alternative Comics Needs Your Help
In the third one of these in recent memory, another fine comic book publisher of quality indy comics is in trouble. It’s for the same reason as always - bankrupt distributor screws publisher for large amounts, decimating their working capital and hampering their cash flow. This time it is Alternative Comics out of Gainsville FL. [...]
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Life Amongst the Ravening Automobiles
One of the big things that kept me from adopting a bicycle-centric lifestyle was my complete debilitating fear of riding on the streets with cars. I could do it in Portland because of the nice fat bike lanes and because there were so many bikes that one could take safety in numbers. In Evanston even [...]
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Fauxzpacho
After the skunk incident, I found myself left with 3 big-ass 46 ounce cans of tomato juice - the ones that didn’t get poured over the stinky dog. I leafed through the same 1981 Betty Crocker cookbook I’ve had since I first left home, looking for some recipe that requires copious amounts of tomato juice. [...]
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Laurie Anderson, Rocket Musician
I’ve long loved Laurie Anderson’s music, since the first time I heard “O Superman” and “Big Science”. Meeting her and getting books signed was the single most pleasant signing experience of my life. I guess I haven’t been following her that closely lately, because until I read it in BoingBoing I didn’t know that she [...]
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Week 16
This morning I was at 226 - two pounds less than last week and 20 pounds down from baseline. This is the first time I have broken through the 228 barrier on this go around. Now I’m down around the weight I was at in Atlanta when I thought I really needed to lose some [...]
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Restoring Dignity to the White House
What more is there to say?
“I do believe the President of the United States just gave you boys the finger.”
Via Die Puny Humans
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iTunes in Hays Kansas
I thought it was really something that the 100,000,000th iTunes download, the guy who won all the stuff, is in Hays Kansas. I spent a summer there, long ago, when my mother was getting her degree at Fort Hays State University. For us, that was a big summer because you could do all sorts of [...]
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Comments
One of the great things that happened when I converted this weblog over to blosxom is that I could have comments and trackbacks. The previous blogging tool just wrote out a static set of pages every time I added a post, so there was nothing dynamic possible. The comments over the last month or two [...]
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Running a Time Deficit
Yesterday was a highly busy day, on that involved spending most of it in the office of the new job. Although I still have a week to work out at the old one, I’ve already done about two days work at the new job. I usually would prefer but never get some dead time between [...]
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