Archive for March, 2008

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Dear ADOT:

While I appreciated your ample signage throughout the valley, I ignored the warnings“Ray Rd exit closed at I-10″ because I wasn’t getting off there. However, the reality was“I-10 closed at Ray Rd”, which isn’t remotely the same thing. I could have easily picked a different route had I known. While the extra time let me [...]

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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

RIP Arthur C Clarke

Arthur C Clarke, 90, passed away today. He was the first science fiction author I read. He’s also entirely responsible for my firm policy against reading books in progress, after an excruciatingly long gap between Rama novels. So I have him to indirectly thank for a really pleasant time reading Harry Potter all at once. [...]

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Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Gah!

Coding Horror: A Question of Programming Ethics

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Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Keys

I was at Ace Hardware yesterday getting some help replacing a washer on my faucet. A man came in to have some keys made and requested a blank with the UofA logo on it. While they tracked one down he offered up this explanation: “These keys are for the Tucson house. Seems likes the easiest [...]

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