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Wednesday Doubles Finale [jackdied] Apr 03 2008, 03:14 EDT [updated Apr 03 2008, 04:15 EDT] [permalink] The Wednesday bowling league ended tonight with the distribution of cash prizes and a for-fun "no tap" tournament. Mike and I were awarded $50 for coming in dead last due to our firm anti-sandbagging policy; we bowled our best games in the first three w Full Text Arguing about turtles [jackdied] Mar 30 2008, 04:09 EDT [updated Apr 03 2008, 04:02 EDT] [permalink] [I left this comment at GraniteRants but it was post-y enough I'm reposting it here] The thing that bothers me about evolutionary biologists is that it's turtles all the way down (a very handy phrase to use at cocktail parties, btw). Their explanations a Full Text 90s Chic [jackdied] Mar 29 2008, 22:35 EDT [updated Apr 03 2008, 04:02 EDT] [permalink] Reading this story about barbers not being able to serve beer anymore reminds me of a couple stories I haven't told on the blog. Michigan has outlawed barbers giving free alcohol to customers. The author was a longhair who fondly remembers getting a fre Full Text Bowling: Non Update [jackdied] Mar 24 2008, 16:34 EDT [permalink] I was out of pocket the past Sunday/Wednesday while in Chicago. I did get a text message from Mike saying he had won a ham* in the pizza game on Sunday (they theme the free pizza game for holidays - at Thanksgiving it was a turkey). Because of Easter th Full Text German, American, or Other? [jackdied] Mar 23 2008, 04:00 EDT [updated Mar 23 2008, 04:09 EDT] [permalink] So I'm freshly back from PyCon which is a geeky conference about the python programming language. I was hanging out with the deeply geeky people which means they were disproportionately non-Americans. It was cheap for the casually geeky Americans to sho Full Text Denial of Service Attacks Against the Micromanagers [jackdied] Mar 23 2008, 02:21 EDT [updated Mar 23 2008, 02:35 EDT] [permalink] For the non-technical a "denial of service" (DoS) attack is a computer term whereby the attacker shuts down a service by asking for a whole lot of it - enough that the provider can't keep up. The attacker wins by costing the victim more money/resources t Full Text Pedants of the world, Unite! (1 image) [jackdied] Mar 23 2008, 01:53 EDT [updated Mar 23 2008, 02:02 EDT] [permalink] I shamelessly stole this image from Ivan Krstic's blog. As a segue to recommending The "Blog"ť of "Unnecessary"ť Quotation Marks.You'll laugh and you'll cry. Great stuff. Full Text Your week in Quickies [quickie] Mar 22 2008, 22:23 EDT [permalink] ChickiPedia [jackdied] Mar 22 2008, 22:23 EDT Killing kittens since 2007. (link goes to Scarlett Johansson's profile) Full Text Pescatore Blurb [jackdied] Mar 22 2008, 21:11 EDT [updated Mar 23 2008, 02:02 EDT] [permalink] I might eat at Pescatore a bit too much, viz: Phone: Hello, Pescatore Seafood. Me: Hi, I'd like to place an order. Phone: How was Chicago? NB, the website should be up Real Soon Now at pescatoreseafood.com. They are waiting for the liquor l Full Text To Err is Human But To Really Screw Up You Need a Computer [jackdied] Mar 22 2008, 01:31 EDT [updated Mar 22 2008, 08:30 EDT] [permalink] There were no killer stories from PyCon this year: no police run-ins or sunrise Denny's drunk-iins or random people passing out in their own shit in the lobby restroom*. But I did lose it on the final day. Here's how: I was supposed to fly out of Chica Full Text Bonus PyCon!! [jackdied] Mar 20 2008, 18:39 EDT [updated Mar 21 2008, 00:44 EDT] [permalink] I was supposed to fly back to Boston tonight after a successful PyCon but the fates intervened. Or United Airlines sucks - take your pick. Well, United isn't entirely useless because they did manage to get my bags to Boston. Bastards. I do get to spri Full Text Boston's Backdoor Rent Control [jackdied] Mar 12 2008, 22:03 EDT [updated Mar 12 2008, 22:05 EDT] [permalink] KZ alerted me to this Boston Globe article on anti-student housing laws. The new zoning law, passed 9-0, prohibits more than four students living together. The supporters didn't even pretend the purpose is to cut down on noise or parties; they quite br Full Text Your week in Quickies [quickie] Mar 11 2008, 11:02 EDT [permalink] The World's 50 Most Powerful Blogs [bobsalive] Mar 09 2008, 10:30 EDT It's just The Guardian's list and Icanhascheezburger is in the top Full Text The Sarah Connor Chronicles: Season Finale [jackdied] Mar 09 2008, 13:46 EDT [updated Mar 09 2008, 13:59 EDT] [permalink] This is how you do a season finale. The season itself was merely OK but the season ender was great. This five minute clip tells the whole tale: Book of Revelations + Lord of the Flies + Johnny Cash + 30 FBI agents versus one terminator == Win . Full Text Your Week in Wing-Nuttery [jackdied] Mar 09 2008, 12:06 EDT [updated Mar 09 2008, 12:24 EDT] [permalink] [Our "Your Week in Quickies" feature is oddball stuff that is largely culled from fark.com and boingboing.net. This is a trial weekly of stuff from smaller sites on the conservative side] Quote of the Week (via) modern liberalism is the victory of sy Full Text New Hampshire Gov't: Worst in the Nation! [jackdied] Mar 09 2008, 08:54 EDT [updated Mar 09 2008, 09:16 EDT] [permalink] .. and proud of it. This article at GraniteGrok celebrates the Pew study that ranks NH as "worst in government efficiency." Read the whole thing. I haven't read the Pew study, just the brief blurb at the Boston Globe. Based on that blurb I am not wor Full Text Space Traders: Can you wire money to Mars? [jackdied] Mar 09 2008, 08:05 EDT [updated Mar 09 2008, 08:06 EDT] [permalink] There is a real chance that people will visit or even live on Mars in my lifetime. I've read a lot of science fiction over the years but I can't remember a single one that deals with inter-planetary economies in a realistic way. So the question is: can Full Text Memory is a funny thing [jackdied] Mar 08 2008, 08:32 EST [permalink] I'll never forget how to ride a bike or swim though I haven't ridden a bike in a decade and swim maybe once every few years. On the other hand I hand I couldn't even recognize a Zener or Laplace transform let alone do one despite the fact that a signific Full Text Ask someone 'Hows Business' and they will tell you [jackdied] Mar 04 2008, 00:37 EST [updated Mar 04 2008, 01:15 EST] [permalink] I have a couple small obsessions with small businesses. The first is asking people "How's business?" They will tell you, just try it sometime. Well, try it sometime when there isn't a line behind you. But really, they'll tell you. I've learned not to Full Text Break-In at Kelly's Diner [jackdied] Mar 03 2008, 23:01 EST [updated Mar 04 2008, 02:11 EST] [permalink] Someone kicked in the front door of Kelly's Diner. There are three cop cars outside now. The same jerk also rifled through my car which was parked next to the diner, but didn't take anything. The only thing of value was the EZ-pass and he left it. The Full Text Larry Kudlow is an Idiot [jackdied] Mar 03 2008, 20:30 EST [permalink] Larry says we need to strengthen the dollar but this is the same Larry Kudlow who has been shouting PRINT MONEY for as long as I can remember. See here, here, and here for just a few examples. Printing money via Federal Bank rate cuts will weaken the do Full Text Cringe-worthy description of Louis Farrakhan [jackdied] Mar 02 2008, 16:16 EST [updated Mar 02 2008, 16:21 EST] [permalink] In an article in the Sun Times about Obama's political weaknesses is this quote [emphasis mine]: Farrakhan recently offered an unsolicited endorsement of Obama. He is considered by many Jews as an anti-Semite. At the Democratic debate in Cleveland last Full Text NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO [jackdied] Mar 01 2008, 16:51 EST [permalink] Dammit the 2nd annual Bacon Eating Contest was held this morning five minutes from my front door and I didn't find out about it until just now. The winner got off easy, this time. 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