The renewal form for my concealed weapons permit has arrived. Along with a complete copy of Florida Statutes Title XLVI Chapter 790, a whopping 20 pages of weapons and firearms laws. You’d think that while wasting all of that paper they might spare a few more pages for Chapter 776, covering the justifiable use of […]
Archive for February, 2008
Renewal
20Feb08Stolen Heritage
20Feb08My mother just forwarded a copy of the old “NASA spent a gazillion dollars inventing the space pen, the Russians used pencils” story. Only the Russians were replaced with Israelis. WTF?
In reality the pressurized pen that could write in zero gravity, under water, etc was invented independently. NASA purchased 400 for $6 each.
Morons
18Feb08I love Yahoo!, and I am proud to be a Yahoo! I will not work for Microsoft. I’d be embarassed to admit that I worked for Microsoft, and having it on my resume would be detrimental to my career.
— Some Yahoo
Put me in the camp that thinks Microsoft buying Yahoo is about the stupidest idea […]
Tri-Core
17Feb08AMD is set to launch triple core CPUs this week. For those discriminating individuals for whom four cores are too many and two cores are not enough. They should have called it Goldilocks. Why anybody would want one of these turds when Intel Q6600 systems have fallen into the $600 sweet spot is beyond me…
Gmail vs SquirrelMail
17Feb08I love Gmail. I just barely tolerate SquirrelMail, but for checking my work email from home it is much less of a pain in the ass than running Outlook. There is one thing that SquirrelMail gets right:
No matter how many tabs are open in my browser, I can always see how many unread messages are […]
DIY Camera Repair
17Feb08My SD700 IS has been down since early December. Somewhere in my travels it took a good smack to the face and, having a metal front, started shorting out. Sometimes it would work fine, other times I’d end up with a corrupted memory card, or it wouldn’t start up at all, or the lens would […]
24 / 7 / 365
12Feb08When did 24 / 7 become inadequate? And what about leap years? Maybe it should be 365.2425? And why bother keeping the 7? Seems kinda redundant…
The Power of Three
12Feb08Them: I followed the four steps you gave me and it isn’t working.
Me: You skipped step four.
Them: I’m doing not-step-four.
Them: Oh, I should be doing step four.
Apparently the number of instructions that can be successfully followed is the same as the number of licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop.
