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« Reply #2720 on: May 21, 2009, 02:25:49 PM » |
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Yesterday I had a pen run out of ink. I don't think I've ever had a pen actually run out of ink before--usually I lose them or break them well before I deplete them. It's probably because we have generic cheapo Bic pens that hold about five milliliters of ink.
This reminds me of a story from when I first started working my current job, back before we moved into our current building and I was sharing a cubicle. One of my pens had stopped working for whatever reason (I think it had some pocket lint caught in the spring of the mechanism or something), and I had disassembled it in an attempt to repair it. My cubicle mate asked me what I was doing, and I replied, of course, "fixing my pen". He said "you know, pens are free here".
The point wasn't to save the company money by not throwing it away and getting another pen (because I probably cost the company money by screwing around with my pen instead of doing real work), the point was to fix something that's broken.
And he calls himself an engineer.
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« Reply #2721 on: May 21, 2009, 02:34:45 PM » |
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haha, one time I spent way too much time trying to fix one of those rolly white-out thingies. this wasn't even for myself but for a cow-orker. I was convinced I could fix it (and I did) and had to kill time anyway. (I regularly finished my tasks too quickly and efficiently but had to/wanted to stay for so many hours without asking for additional tasks.)
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« Reply #2722 on: May 21, 2009, 03:14:46 PM » |
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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« Reply #2723 on: May 21, 2009, 03:18:58 PM » |
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well poo. I forgot to use the repaired rolly white-out thing to bandage up the injury to eternity. =\
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« Reply #2724 on: June 02, 2009, 06:46:20 PM » |
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« Reply #2725 on: June 10, 2009, 05:35:46 PM » |
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« Reply #2726 on: July 20, 2009, 04:40:49 PM » |
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It just broke my brain to realize that 1990 was nearly 20 years ago. I'm not sure why that is.
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« Reply #2727 on: July 20, 2009, 04:57:21 PM » |
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« Reply #2728 on: July 25, 2009, 12:02:41 PM » |
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I have two radio stations I regularly listen to: 96.1 out of Raleigh and 100.3 out of Winston-Salem (or the general vicinity). They both play about the same sort of music, mostly hard rock but some of the bigger-name metal bands mixed in occasionally. Anyway, today as I was driving home they were both playing the same song. Unfortunately it was "Blurry" by Puddle of Mudd, and I don't really care for either the song or the band (which is why I was flipping stations), but it was sort of cool. I figured that sort of thing happens from time to time since they seem to share a pretty common setlist, but it was fancy to actually observe it firsthand.
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« Reply #2729 on: September 04, 2009, 10:18:43 AM » |
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I think one of the things that keeps people from giving the fruit of their labor away for free is having to deal with people like this:
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Subject: Two questions
1: Are there any known issues with the hotkey? I couldn't change link colors using the apparent default control-U; nothing happened with this or other assigned hotkeys.
2: Would you be open to writing a similar extension? One of the major annoyances on the web is pages that think it's prettier to make visited and unvisited links be the same color, but don't work design-wise if you force default colors, which affect more than just the links. I think it would be a great feature to be able to force visited and unvisited link colors to be different without otherwise making changes to the page design and background.
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Subject: Re: Two questions
I assume you're talking about Color Toggle, though I didn't see a
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1: No known issues. The default is, I believe, Ctrl + Shift + U, which
works for me in Firefox 3.5.
2: I wrote this extension because I wanted the functionality, and I made
it available to others as a courtesy. Unfortunately, I don't have the
time or the inclination to create and maintain a second extension that
offers functionality I don't particularly care about. Also, creating the
extension you describe would not be trivially easy, because Firefox
offers no way to force the link colors to be ones you set while
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Ok; I misunderstood the UI on 1. I appreciate your clarifying the second point as well, and I appreciate the extension.
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Post script: I started to try out your extension today, and found it very nice for the purpose I intended (being able to tell whether I've visited links on a page).
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What? He hadn't even tried it to see if it would work for his purposes before asking me to write him something different (for free, of course)?
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« Reply #2730 on: September 14, 2009, 12:53:57 PM » |
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I'm not pleased with the recent trend of designing hotel rooms to cater to midgets. I'm sure there are plenty of midgets out there who appreciate it, but I think they should have a couple rooms for freakish giants available on a first-come-first-served basis with a surreptitious height guide for the front desk guy.
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« Reply #2731 on: September 14, 2009, 02:20:12 PM » |
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There is a weekly paper printed in the area. It highlights local businesses, stories, advertises community events, etc. I always do the crossword and sudoku puzzles when I pick up a copy. Today, I open to the puzzles and the crossword solution is right above the actual crossword. *facepalm*
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« Reply #2732 on: September 15, 2009, 10:49:00 PM » |
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Miscellaneous observations: * I love Images and Words, but freaking Through Her Eyes always makes my eyes a little misty and thus should not be played while driving * The suckiest thing about being away from the Internet is coming back to it. 600 unread Google Reader items for the lose. I predict a very unproductive day at work tomorrow. * It seems like a good idea to turn the thermostat off while traveling until you get back and your house is like four hundred degrees Fahrenheit and takes three and a half days to become a more suitable temperature. I really need to get one of those fancy programmable thermostats. Probably nowadays they have ones that will use Twitter to post the temperature of your house or some nonsense like that. That is all. |
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« Reply #2733 on: September 20, 2009, 03:13:58 PM » |
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Google Calendar has added sports calendars you can subscribe to. I currently have subscribed to the Hokies' calendar, which displays kickoff time, approximate expected duration, and opponent. Once the game is over it also shows the score and the breakdown by quarter for each team.
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« Reply #2734 on: October 08, 2009, 10:11:36 AM » |
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« Reply #2735 on: October 10, 2009, 05:33:10 PM » |
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people don't like being told they are being judgmental. even if it is true. especially if it is true.
<-- is probably being judgmental about other people's attitudes towards being told they're judgmental. but don't tell me because I won't like it. okay you can tell me and I will like it, just to be contrary.
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« Reply #2736 on: November 17, 2009, 03:57:40 PM » |
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I recently received, along with a computer I purchased for work, a license for IBM PC-DOS. Obviously they don't expect me to use DOS on my eight-core Xeon workstation; the option is there so that people who want to install Linux or some other UNIX OS on it don't have to pay for a Windows license. But it's so funny to see anything related to DOS anymore that I hung the license on my wall.
(It doesn't even come with DOS installed; the license just entitles me to get a copy if I so desire.)
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« Reply #2737 on: November 19, 2009, 02:52:13 PM » |
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Does it seem weird to anyone else when people have pleasantries automatically inserted into their e-mail signatures by their mail programs? It seems to rob the pleasantry of any power or warmth it might otherwise have had.
Words that my co-workers have in their auto signatures include "thanks", "best", "regards", "cheers", and "take care". When it's automatically inserted, "best" doesn't mean that Bob wishes me the best, it just means that this is how he's chosen to end his e-mails.
(It also leads to incongruous situations where someone might send a rude, ranty, or just plain mean e-mail that ends with 'best wishes' or 'warm regards').
I have no automatic e-mail signature. At the end of every e-mail I send I type "Nathan" on its own line (except when I spaz out and type "Nahtan", which occasionally slips through). If I'm asking someone to do something or if someone has already done something for me, I will go all-out and type "Thanks, Nathan", each on its own line.
I don't claim that this makes me a better person, but at least it feels more genuine. In the age of electronic communication, that's not something that should necessarily be discounted.
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« Reply #2738 on: November 19, 2009, 02:53:38 PM » |
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Go to Google and type in: what are
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« Reply #2739 on: November 19, 2009, 03:06:53 PM » |
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Go to Google and type in: what are
The first suggested result is priceless.
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« Reply #2740 on: November 19, 2009, 03:17:55 PM » |
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Well - you learn something new every day!
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« Reply #2741 on: November 19, 2009, 03:21:19 PM » |
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I learned what are the keys to my heart, just based on what animals I would save/destroy/want to be!
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« Reply #2742 on: November 19, 2009, 03:48:23 PM » |
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Does it seem weird to anyone else when people have pleasantries automatically inserted into their e-mail signatures by their mail programs? It seems to rob the pleasantry of any power or warmth it might otherwise have had.
it doesn't really seem weird to me, just dumb and meaningless, like a lot of things people say or think they have to say. (yes I am a grouchy person go away don't talk to me.) I think "best" is weird just by itself, but I haven't really seen it much, just from one person who writes in what seems to me to be a curt, formal tone. I'm like "why even bother? it doesn't make you seem warmer." the message isn't not-nice, just informative. for example: FYI Informative Information Best, Firstname to me it seems that "best" means "I am terse but don't want to seem curt so will insert the shortest word possible to designate not-being-curt", and I don't think it works very well. |
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« Reply #2743 on: November 19, 2009, 04:10:55 PM » |
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« Reply #2744 on: November 20, 2009, 08:20:22 AM » |
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Go to Google and type in: what are
The first suggested result is priceless.
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« Reply #2745 on: December 15, 2009, 01:15:24 AM » |
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The National Enquirer is looking more and more credible, with Tiger Woods and all.
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« Reply #2746 on: December 15, 2009, 08:34:25 AM » |
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I don't know if 'credible' is the right word in this case...
Tabloid publications such as the Enquirer generally just extrapolate the situation to the most extreme degree. For example, if a celebrity couple are seen in public having what even appears to be a disagreement, the front page will read
Bob and Alice Splitsville?
What will happen to their nine kids?
Details inside!
Maybe Bob and Alice weren't even fighting, but in the off-chance they have been having marital strife (and with Hollywood couples, maybe I should say the on-chance), the tabloid will appear to be well informed when in fact they are just speculating.
That said, they've been doing this for a while now. Back in their "I'm carrying Elvis' alien baby" days their goals were to write the most entertaining headlines, so the shift to celebrity gossip happened slowly ("Angelina Jolie is carrying Elvis' alien baby"). But now that they've had several years to practice and observe, they are very well aware of the different failure modes celebrity relationships can take, so when they see something like "Tiger Woods' wife smashes a window with his golf club to get him out", they think "that's pretty implausible; what if she was really trying to smash his face".
All this to say, I will never apply the word 'credible' to any of those types of magazines, simply because their entire business model is to be incredible. If they were actually bastions of investigative journalism they would be competing with (and likely losing to) the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, et. al. Their niche is speculative journalismfiction, and as such their failure rate will always be higher than their success rate.
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« Reply #2747 on: December 21, 2009, 08:30:43 AM » |
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When you meet a friend of a friend and she says "I've heard a lot about you", it's always a little disconcerting.
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« Reply #2748 on: February 16, 2010, 08:52:26 PM » |
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Freaking web applications get HTML encoding wrong so often that nowadays when I see > I automatically translate it into > (The latest target of my ire is that inane twitter box that people put on their webpages because they think that maybe the people who aren't subscribed to them via twitter still somehow care about the crap they're tweeting. Among all its other failings, it is apparently completely incapable of decoding HTML entities correctly or something and people who write <3 wind up with <3, which looks like a console escape sequence more than a freaking emoticon). Rant rant. |
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« Reply #2749 on: February 26, 2010, 11:11:01 PM » |
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So I was driving to Durham today. The one characteristic that defines my relationship with Durham is "lost", because Durham is kind of confusingly laid out, and it doesn't mesh well with my navigational methodology, which is basically "drive in approximately the right direction until I see something that looks familiar". My friends make fun of me for getting lost sometimes, but they all have fancy-schmancy phones with GPS. I have Rand-McNally folding maps in the door pocket of my car.
Anyway, as I was on North Roxboro street pulled into a freaking Shoney's parking lot looking through my Durham map (oops, I was supposed to turn the other way on Duke street), I thought to myself that in just a few years, what I'm doing will be completely foreign to the younger generations. Actually, it probably already is completely foreign. When my friends get lost--and I'm speaking of my few friends without GPS-enabled phones or specialized GPS computers--their first recourse is to call someone and describe their location. They'll do this quite soon after realizing that they're lost, because the further they get from the main roads, the less likely that anyone will be able to figure out where they are.
To me, I like saying "OK, I'm here, so if I go west on NC 70 until I hit Durham I should be able to get to Main Street via Duke Street", and then testing my hypothesis. While I might turn the wrong way sometimes, at least I feel like I know my area without the aid of some mechanical device. But maybe that's just me trying to justify my own irrational behavior, because after all, isn't using a map when I get lost the same thing as having a GPS I bust out when I get lost? I dunno.
I've only had to bust out my folding maps twice so far, counting today. Hopefully I can learn my way around effectively enough that I don't need to spend too much more time wondering how long it will be before paper maps become an anachronism, or if in fact we're already there.
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But I still like regular road maps. It's always good to have one around just in case you really do get lost or you're using it as a reference for some road trip or something. Even if I had a GPS, I would still keep a spare road map. And I don't think having a GPS cancels out the potential utility of a regular map. A GPS is digital and can fail if anything should happen to your GPS-enabled-phone or car or portable GPS (unless it can operate without extra input from an electrical source). A regular road map will not fail even if an electric source of power does; it will always be there for reference unless it gets lost or weathered or burnt. That's not to say I don't like GPS technology--it can be very useful, it's just not the only directional guidance I would want to consult if I was ever lost (unless it was the only one available at the time).
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Back when I was in Atlanta several years ago (visiting Georgia Tech, actually), my parents and I noticed this. We would also frequently get owned by one-way streets which seemed to be always going in the direction we didn't want to go in. Also, I seem to recall Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. doing some funky things regarding both continuity and naming.
However, Atlanta is a perfectly fine city to walk around in. I was back there later for a school trip, and managed to get from the Georgia Tech campus to Piedmont Park to Centennial park just by walking and using the Marta trains. Despite the fact that the HPS (hobo per square foot) ratio was higher than I was used to, I didn't feel particularly unsafe, and there were plenty of nice people willing to play frisbee with us. The same might not hold if it were night or we weren't tall males, but I came to the conclusion that the best way to get places in Atlanta is to hoof it.
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« Reply #2756 on: March 02, 2010, 04:31:17 PM » |
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I would agree that downtown/midtown Atlanta (the area around Georgia Tech, Centennial Park and Piedmont Park) are fantastic for walking. The neighborhoods are generally safe (by big urban city standards), and there are a lot of residents (even if some of them prefer cardboard boxes to condos).
The remainder of Atlanta, though, is notorious for how walker/biker unfriendly it is. Like LA, unless you live AND work in the downtown/midtown area, you pretty much have to have a car because the train basically ends at the city limits and is useless for us suburbanites.
Ok..enough about Atlanta. My random observation is that this is the snowiest/coldest winter I've seen in a long time in the deep south. Snowing again today, though thankfully with no accumulation to mess up my drive home.
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« Reply #2757 on: March 02, 2010, 05:07:24 PM » |
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Yeah, apparently we're supposed to get 3-5 inches tonight. I'll believe it when I see it.
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If you don’t have freedom as a principle, you can never see a reason not to make an exception. There are constantly going to be times when for one reason or another there’s some practical convenience in making an exception.
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« Reply #2758 on: March 06, 2010, 12:14:49 PM » |
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There are few things more annoying than knowing you have the right tool for the job but not knowing where it is. I knew I had a Torx-head bit ( tamper-resistant, of course) and a driver. I found the bit without difficulty, but the driver was nowhere to be found (turns out, for some inexplicable reason, it was in my car). My dad tried for a long time to teach me to establish one and only one proper place for everything and to return things to their proper place as soon as I'm done with them (probably because he and I are both very adept at hiding things from ourselves). Apparently I have not yet learned this lesson. |
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If you don’t have freedom as a principle, you can never see a reason not to make an exception. There are constantly going to be times when for one reason or another there’s some practical convenience in making an exception.
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« Reply #2759 on: March 12, 2010, 12:59:37 PM » |
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It is a profoundly bizarre experience to click on one RSS feed when you mean to click on a different one. I ended up reading about half of a iPad review by Stephen Fry under the impression that it was written by Scott Hanselman; I'm not sure if it would be possible for two people to be any more different and still be members of the same species! I suppose that's what you get when you sort alphabetically.
(Sometimes this happens and it is very revealing to me about the different attitudes I bring to a piece of writing based on my preconception of who the author is. This particular time it just wound up being super confusing.)
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If you don’t have freedom as a principle, you can never see a reason not to make an exception. There are constantly going to be times when for one reason or another there’s some practical convenience in making an exception.
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