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Wednesday April 23, 2008

The internet shows you how small the world is...

While web surfing yesterday, I discovered that a woman that shares my daughter's name lives in the house that my paternal grandparent's lived in when I was a kid.

It is amazing what you can find out on the internet, randomly.

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Wednesday January 02, 2008

Another Witty Ironic Observation

I was looking through the UC Extension, Santa Cruz catalog and discovered a course with a title that just drips witty irony.

UCSC has a a counter-culture reputation, so I have to wonder if they were just trying to milk that... or whether this was just one of those Great Moments in Copy Editing.

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Tuesday December 18, 2007

All's well in Wellington... At Last!

After the writer's strike sent my favorite shows dark for so long, I was beginning to despair. But good news came today from a world apart, basking in a summertime glow!

My kids are thrilled that their friend may be playing the role of Gandalf once again. They enjoyed seeing Sir Ian McKellen play Lear last spring in Stratford-upon-Avon, but Lear is hard to love... especially when you are 10 and 11.

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Wednesday June 13, 2007

An offer that is hard to refuse

If you live within 'shopping distance' of Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California, you may want to check out the following "deal".

If you spend more than $500 dollars to purchase gift cards, you get a certificate for a free picnic lunch for two...

If you are buying Father's Day gifts and presents for your child's teacher, this can add up to be a pleasant gift for you, too.

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Thursday May 24, 2007

Which mini doesn't belong on the list

• Apple's Mac Mini
• Mini Cooper
• miniskirt
• Minnie Mouse

Wednesday May 23, 2007

what do tags do???? the ui for blog entry has a field with the label 'Tags'... since I like to learn by doing this pointless entry just to test tagging.... (2007-05-23 14:06:52.0) Permalink Comments [1]

Saturday April 28, 2007

Somebody's been laughing

I was just reading through the JavaDoc for SwingUtilities and saw this gem in the Method Summary table

Causes doRun.run() to be executed synchronously on the AWT event dispatching thread.

Makes me wonder, who is the secret Crystals fan.

Got other examples of JavaDoc jokes? Tag them on del.icio.us with javadoc joke (2007-04-28 08:39:11.0) Permalink Comments [1]

Wednesday April 11, 2007

Google bombs are country specific

I just discovered that googlebombs aren't universal to Google sites....

Compare the results of this search against the UK incarnation of Google and the results of this search against dot-com incarnation of Google.

Very interesting...

So, the Colbert nation still has marching orders to carpet googlebomb Stephen Colbert to his rightful place of mastery of witty irony... (2007-04-11 15:51:26.0) Permalink

Sunday February 18, 2007

Is this... an example of that. Found on Techmeme.
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Friday February 09, 2007

Defined
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Thursday February 01, 2007

What is old? I used to feel that old was twice my age. Then I read this about Cyndi Lauper.

She cannot be 53. I remember watching her on Countdown just a few years ago.

Time goes by speedie quick.
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Saturday January 20, 2007

iPod vs. Zune in a close-out sale "Cage Match"
This totally non-scientific. But I made an interesting observation yesterday while in my local Sears store. The store is closing, so I did the electronics cruise last week-end, to see if there were any bargains. (There weren't.)

I noticed the store has some iPod Nano's and some Zune's on sale though...

I went in last night to get some recordable DVD's and did a second check.

iPod: sold out
Zune: still available
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Friday June 30, 2006

Usually, the cart comes after the horse... While I was surfing around the web yesterday, I ran into this press release from the Eclipse Foundation about Callisto. I skimmed through it, looking for the link that points to the download page, but it wasn't there.

So, I went to the Callisto page. There wasn't a download link there, either.

So, I queried blogsearch.google.com to see what was up. I saw this entry, that said that I would be able to get the bits around 16:00 CET....

While the bits aren't there yet, I am sure the folks associated with the Foundation will get them staged and accessible before 23:59:59.99999 Pacific/Midway. But they should really ask Mr. Milinkovich and Mr. Skerrett what they were thinking when they decided [press] release before [bits] release. (2006-06-30 09:41:59.0) Permalink Comments [1]

Tuesday May 16, 2006

The BIG immigration announcement It seems like the announcement went over a lot of heads. The only way an immigrant worker ID card could work is if it was carried by ALL people. It isn't an ID card, it is a privilege-to-work card.

Another thing to note: the only people who can employ someone would be the people who can afford to buy the privilege-to-work card reader gizmo. This is great news for the shareholders of card-reader gizmo companies. The burden of buying one of these gizmos may be the final straw for some small businesses. (2006-05-16 14:03:56.0) Permalink

Tuesday May 09, 2006

So goes the 'nation I am happy to report that the fans of Stephen Colbert (The Colbert Nation) have been successful at googlebombing 'witty irony' to its rightful heir. I was worried that it may never happen, but the Correspondent's Dinner really brought Stephen (and my googlebombing proposal) the support that it needed.

To those who saw my proposal and responded: Thank You. (2006-05-09 12:15:54.0) Permalink