Saturday, December 31, 2005


And A Very Miscellaneous December 31 To You, Too


  • One nice thing about having a week and a half away from work is that I’ve actually been able to use my Mac as my main computer again for an extended period of time. I’ll have to figure out a way to do more of that…
  • I’ve largely cut over to Splenda for those times when I’m not just drinking my coffee black. Please, no lectures about the evils of modern chemistry / genetically-modified foods, whatever. Live like a cyborg, die like a cyborg. Anyway, I only mention this because, really, at this point there’s virtually no difference in taste (though there is a barely discernible difference in texture) when drinking the stuff in a beverage. One weird side effect the “table blend” suffers is that it, well, foams a bit when you mix it into coffee. I figure it’s got to be the cut (in this case maltodextrin and air, basically.)
  • The comment feed hadn’t been updating since November, and I just hadn’t noticed. Fixed. Just YAFCJ.
  • subscribey wibeySince there seems to be a fairly strong movement afoot to standardize on a single icon for web feeds, I’ve added it for those who are unfortunate enough to be using a browser/OS/aggregator combo that isn’t smart enough to autodiscover. Unbelievably, I actually displayed the thing in (pukety pukety rolf) orange until I made myself remember enough Photoshop to be able to re-tint it in a more palatable fashion.
  • If you’re as irritated as I am about religious organizations throwing their weight around and determining what independent adults should be allowed to watch in their own homes, fire up your BitTorrent client.
  • It’s rare that you hear a really, really funny blonde joke, but this one made me wet my pants.

:: Dave Walker 13:42 (EST/EDT) [+]

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A girl and a boy bump into each other -- surely an accident. A girl and a boy bump and her handkerchief drops -- surely another accident. But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid -- *____that ___had __to ____mean _________something*. -- S. Morganstern, "The Silent Gondoliers"