Archive for July, 2005
What the f is wrong with the world?
3.6 million people starving in Niger Food is a helluva lot more important than democracy, so why can’t W spread that around? Culture of life, my ass. Fly back from Crawford to keep a vegetable alive. Ignore 3.6 million who are strarving. Yeah, I know this picture is [Read More]
My first Raleigh poker tournament
It did not go well. I finished in close to last place, due to having lost 80% of my chips on the very first hand. I held Ac/3c, and the flop has an ace and two more clubs. The river card was another ace. A guy bet $3000 (you start with something like $5000, and [Read More]
Sign this petiton telling the administration to come clean
Dear Friend, I just signed this petition telling the Bush administration to come clean on the CIA leak. With your help, we can keep the pressure on them to do the right thing. Please join me by signing this petition: http://www.democrats.org/page/petition/clean/klale Thanks! [Read More]
Thank you Larry David
I actually laughed, thanks to Curb Your Enthusiasm, Season 3, Episode 1–”Chet’s Shirt”. Laughter=good therapy. I should probably watch another episode before I go to sleep. Hell, I should probably watch an episode when I wake up. One of the funny [Read More]
Global mood swings
posted this. Pretty neat. Look at some moods like sad, scared, and shocked in the past week, and you’ll see how they spike after the London attacks. [Read More]
Materialism
Looking back over some spreadsheet, I see that I’ve sold about 100 CDs over the past couple of years. I want them back now. I don’t want copies, I want the originals. I want every impulse buy I ever made back. I want my collection back. I don’t care if [Read More]
Firefox trick
Haven’t been posting lately for a variety of reasons I may or may not write about later, but in the meantime, I just found a neat Firefox trick. To access a specific tab without the mouse, you can do CTRL + , ie CTRL+ 1, [Read More]
What is Toastie’s job?
The following pretty much sums it up. I develop and support the Remedy application at Duke and… (from the Remedy instruction doc here) Remedy is the incident management system that Information Technology (IT) support groups use at Duke. We use it to record customer [Read More]
