This is not a man with a blog.
A while ago I was asked by my friend Jennifer to help her find a Bluetooth phone to use with her carrier. It wasn’t impossible to do, but the information was spread out in different places. Knowing what phones I had available was only part of the puzzle, I then had to figure out such obscure things, such as, "Had Jennifer’s carrier crippled her Bluetooth stack?" Using a combination of CNet and the carrier’s website, I dug up her answers.
This Poker Raid story mentions profits of five to ten thousand dollars per night. It’s almost certainly a lie. Here’s how you can tell.
You know how oil is made, right? Old dinosaurs and plants decay for thousands of years and turn into that golden sludge we have become so addicted to. So then you know that "Are we running out of oil?" isn’t really the question. Since the planet is finite, there isn’t an infinite supply.
The question is posed by the NYT Magazine this past Sunday was "When will we run out of oil?" (Link: The Breaking Point – New York Times). The answer may be "soon".
Holocaust historians often complain that as World War 2 fades from history, every new generation is less and less familiar with the atrocities of the Nazis. This is a valid concern, every new generation will find that the horrors of the Holocaust carry less weight because they are more distant in history.
You know, on Animal Farm the pigs finally got their comeuppance. I try to remember that when I see
someone try and park in a space too small for them here on the streets of the Mission in San Francisco, and block us in our driveway.
You haven’t heard from me in a while. I’m finishing my paternity
leave on a three week cross country tour visiting the relatives who are
too sick to travel. I spent the first
week in my home town, St. Louis, because my mom has cancer. The whole
family has circled the wagons, as you might expect, and so I’m home
doing my part. Of course our family is highly competitive, and so
regardless of how sick anyone is, there’s a game ready to be
contested. Tonight it was Spinners, a version of dominoes with wild
cards.
I have installed an interesting application – BlogJet . It’s a cool Windows client for my blog tool (as well as for other tools). Get your copy here: http://blogjet.com
“Computers are useless. They…
I came across this tribute to a Texas soldier killed in Iraq and reading it when I came across the photo of the slain soldier’s infant son on this page. I have to say, I’ve seen my son wrapped up just like this, with almost the exact same expression on his face.
From Wikipedia: "Adhocracy is the absence of hierarchy and is therefore the opposite of bureaucracy."
Adhocracy is a concept that existed before the Internet and will exist long after the Net is gone. It’s currently at work today in Iraq, and it would behoove you to read conservative journalist Michael Yon’s essay today on why so many people have so much to gain from the continuing chaos in Iraq. (Read "Empty Jars", by Michael Yon)
Echinacea is crap
For years people have been telling me to take echinacea when I felt a cold coming on. Reluctantly I would do it. One particular unreliable acquaintance in New York used to distill her own echinacea. So pathological was she, that I imagined her in Central Park just grabbing a handful of weeds, boiling them down and selling them with the malicious thought, "they’ll never know the difference".