Archive for October, 2006
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Halloween
What is with lazy ass parents shadowing their kids in cars? And what’s with their lazy ass kids GETTING IN THE CAR to be DRIVEN 4 houses away, past the houses with no lights on? It’s not like it’s 30 and snowing here, which still wouldn’t cut it as an excuse. I froze and got [...]
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Pitfalls
Here’s an excerpt from the excellent Code Complete Suppose you need a report that shows your annual profit. You already have computerized reports that show quarterly profits. If you’re locked into the programmer mindset, you’ll reason that adding an annual report to a system that already does quarterly reports should be easy. Then you’ll pay [...]
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Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Movies
I’ve got some pretty big projects in the hopper right now, and some deadlines. But in the spirit of your dorm room never being cleaner than during finals week, I present the first triple digit movie meme. (1) Rocky Horror Picture Show – Only on TV, never in person(2) Grease – First movie I ever [...]
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Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Toothless
Jane’s first loose tooth has been loose for a few weeks now. Apparently the principal at her school, who is a super nice lady, is an expert tooth puller. I’m not sure what finally motivated her today, but after school she and Cassandra went to the principal’s office and came out a gap toothed 6 [...]
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Thursday, October 12th, 2006
Who’s Starlene?
I installed the Firefox 2 release client. It’s okay, nothing too earth shattering. It does have spell checking on every input fields, which is nifty. I’m curious where they got their dictionary though. powered by performancing firefox
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
One reason I hate the news
We went to lunch at a bar & grill with a TV that you can’t hear. TV is on CNN. I glance over and see the headline “NORAD scrambles fighters over several US cities”. I had to read the stupid scrolling bottom for a few minutes before finding out it had to do with the [...]
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
Look
I haven’t combed my hair in 4 or 5 months
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Tuesday, October 10th, 2006
look
I haven’t combed my hair in 4 or 5 months
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
I wonder …
If we had evolved with 4 fingers, would we all be using <a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octal”>base 8</a> now?