archive for September 2003
9/23/03 tails of a quarter
Wisconsinites only, please: vote for your favorite Wisconsin quarter design. (I voted, of course, because I’m effectively a permanent Wisconsin resident for tuition purposes, according to state law.) I personally voted for the “Scenic Wisconsin” design, though I find none of them spectacular. I would be fairly disappointed if the clichéd cow/cheese one were to [...]
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9/17/03 adrenaline
Opus returns. Excellent.
Also, did you know that Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives? Weird shit.
Do you ever export Word files into HTML? Tired of all the proprietary Microsoft crap that junks up your code? Use the Textism Word HTML Cleaner. It seems to work quite nicely. (Kudos to Dean of Textism.)
Finally: Jason’s first earthquake. I was at [...]
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9/10/03 things that suck
In honor of Nick, here are today’s Things that Suck.
Crying cats outside the bedroom window
A cat clawing the screen door and shaking it, loudly, repeatedly
Ants
Basements that smell like cat shit that require you to re-do your laundry
Windows NT used as a web hosting platform
Scabs (in any sense)
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9/3/03 nothing really profound to say right now, which is okay, I guess
This recommendation from Amazon left me confused. How do those things I’ve purchased have anything to do with condoms? Do David Foster Wallace readers get laid more often than non-DFW readers? Or, more likely, are they more likely to buy condoms online? Or is there a semantic connection—are my purchases of “The Big One” and [...]
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