Archive for September, 2006
Thursday, September 21st, 2006
Kids (and parents) say the darndest things
Conversation with Jane: Her: “Daddy, I had chopped robin for lunch today! And it was gooood.” Me: “Chopped robin?” Her: “Yep, chopped robin.” Me: “Uhm, what is chopped robin?” Her: “It’s kind of like soup, but it has a lot of noodles in it.” I got a big smile on my face and decided [...]
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Monday, September 18th, 2006
The Onion
I haven’t read The Onion regularly for quite a while. While it’s usually funny, it mostly boils down to the same group of jokes adapted to various situations. I do listen to the Onion podcast, though, since their humor is just about perfect for a 1 minute chuckle. A friend forwarded me <a href=”http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39024″>this one</a> [...]
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Tuesday, September 12th, 2006
Truth in Advertising
So iTunes 7 comes out today, and one of the newly touted features is this: With Cover Flow, you can flip through your digital music and video collection just as you would CDs. “Wow, that’s pretty impressive”, I thought. So I quickly downloaded and installed it and plugged in my microphone. After I fired up [...]
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Friday, September 1st, 2006
some more geekery
Please bear with me while I go geek again, although this might be useful to the non-geeks too. My startup times, which I’ve had to put up with entirely too much lately, have always been monstrous. Not the time it takes to get a login prompt, but the time it takes between logging in and [...]
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Friday, September 1st, 2006
cyclical
I received this message working in Eclipse, the IDE for a new product we recently purchased. I love it.