Currently 91°, high today of 84°. Riiiiight
Asides
The kiddo wanted his book on Amelia Earhart, but it had disappeared
The kiddo wanted his book on Amelia Earhart, but it had disappeared, so I had to carry out an extensive search.
Avast! I be seein’ offers of sails — I mean sales — fer Talk Like
Avast! I be seein' offers of sails — I mean sales — fer Talk Like A Pirate Day. O'Reilly Books I can understand…but MedicAlert?
Weirdest thing I saw yesterday was a man riding what looked like a motorized unicycle on the way to work.
Weirdest thing I saw yesterday was a man riding what looked like a motorized unicycle on the way to work.
Things that are appropriate while reading October Daye novels: Headaches. Coffee. Cutting your mouth on potato chips so you taste blood.
Things that are appropriate while reading October Daye novels: Headaches. Coffee. Cutting your mouth on potato chips so you taste blood.
Wow. After 3+ years, the local Carl’s Jr finally put an “Out of Order” sign on the Diet Dr. Pepper that has *never* worked.
Wow. After 3+ years, the local Carl’s Jr finally put an “Out of Order” sign on the Diet Dr. Pepper that has *never* worked.
“Coil Winding Expo?” How did I wind up on *that* mailing list?
“Coil Winding Expo?” How did I wind up on *that* mailing list?
%*^! Mysql anonymous users. Why on earth did someone think that was a sensible default?
%*^! Mysql anonymous users. Why on earth did someone think that was a sensible default?
If your lawn is muddy, either you’re overwatering or you have a broken pipe. FIX IT!
If your lawn is muddy, either you’re overwatering or you have a broken pipe. FIX IT!
Always interesting when photo challenges intersect. FlickrFriday’s theme is Taxi & Instagram’s WHP is CarCorners.
Always interesting when photo challenges intersect. FlickrFriday’s theme is Taxi & Instagram’s WHP is CarCorners.
Nice try, comment spammer, but copy-pasting a review from IMDB into my comment form doesn’t cut it.
Nice try, comment spammer, but copy-pasting a review from IMDB into my comment form doesn’t cut it.
Watching a flock of wild parrots caroming down the street. Kiddo was impressed.
Watching a flock of wild parrots caroming down the street. Kiddo was impressed.
Lately I’ve been reading a lot about the way Facebook chooses what to show…
https://medium.com/message/ferguson-is-also-a-net-neutrality-issue-6d2f3db51eb0
Lately I've been reading a lot about the way Facebook chooses what to show you and what to hide in your news feed. Like the author of this piece, last night I also noticed a Twitter/Facebook disparity on #Ferguson discussion. It's an object lesson on the difference between unfiltered news vs. prefiltered, even when the filtering is automated and not deliberate.
(Interestingly, I kept thinking last night about an article I read a while back about the Gezi protests in Turkey, and how Twitter factored in as a communications platform. It turns out to have been by the same writer.)
On Internet vitriol, and its proper place.
http://www.reallifecomics.com/comic.php?comic=july-28-2014
On Internet vitriol, and its proper place.
Pro tip: If you’re going to automatically abbreviate Association, do it as “Assn.” It’s only one more letter and it’s a lot less ambiguous.
Pro tip: If you’re going to automatically abbreviate Association, do it as “Assn.” It’s only one more letter and it’s a lot less ambiguous.
So lying on the couch makes my headache worse, but sitting and staring at a…
So lying on the couch makes my headache worse, but sitting and staring at a computer screen for hours makes it better. Counterintuitive, but fits if I managed to strain my neck sometime since the initial onset over the weekend.
Looks like I won’t make it to the reunion after all. Last minute emergency. Have fun, everyone!
Looks like I won’t make it to the reunion after all. Last minute emergency. Have fun, everyone!
Apparently I’ve added a new spot to my San Diego regular itinerary. Not what I
Apparently I've added a new spot to my San Diego regular itinerary. Not what I would have chosen.
Having been a teenage geek in the 1990s, the phrase “AD&D coverage” always makes me…
Having been a teenage geek in the 1990s, the phrase “AD&D coverage” always makes me think of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, not Accidental Death & Dismemberment. Though depending on your DM and how the dice are rolling that day, there might be some overlap.
I hate that Mac/PC email interaction still manages to transform curly apostrophes and quotation marks into superscript numbers. Shouldn’t this be a solved problem by now?
I hate that Mac/PC email interaction still manages to transform curly apostrophes and quotation marks into superscript numbers. Shouldn’t this be a solved problem by now?