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Plaxo Office Space
When I worked at Plaxo’s offices on Crittenden (now part of the GooglePlex), there was a door to our server closet inside the handicap stall men’s bathroom of the third floor. I can picture this like a scene in the movie: … Continue reading
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Tagged bathroom, copy machine, doors, movie, Office Space, PC Load Letter
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Nikon D3100
Last month, a friend asked me purchasing advice on a Nikon D5000. I told him, “Don’t. Nikon will be introducing a new D3000 replacement before Photokina.” Today, Nikon has officially announced the Nikon D3100 entry level dSLR camera. If you … Continue reading
Posted in photography
Tagged Nikon D200, Nikon D3000, Nikon D3100, Nikon D5000, Nikon D90, sensor, video
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Weapons-grade wingnut
The comments on Balloon Juice can get quite witty. I love the imagery and alliteration in the following: Wow. That’s some real weapons-grade Wingnut there. That was used when talking about a purity purge going on over the “ground zero … Continue reading
Posted in religion and politics, wordplay
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Cisco looking for PHP engineer
Kristen sent me this job posting: Cisco has a small team that focuses on building a hosted social-networking/media platform (Cisco Eos) for media companies and the fans. They are looking for an experienced PHP developer to help lead the technology development of their … Continue reading
Learning Programming Part 3: C/C++ superiority
Previously, Part 1 and Part 2. The other day, Marie pointed me to an interesting article where Jolie O’Dell decides to go back to school to get a computer science degree. She asked me what my thoughts were on some … Continue reading
Posted in PHP
Tagged assembly, C, circuit diagram, computers, erotic furies, erotic furries, Java, learning, PHP, physics, programming, Python
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Are democrats more educated?
Balloon Juice links to a Brookings study that measures educational attainment by metropolitan area and notes that 24 out of 25 areas are in states that went for Obama in 2008. This made me immediately wonder which the outlier was. … Continue reading
Posted in religion and politics
Tagged county, Democrat, education, fallacy, misused statistics, politics, Reagan Democrats, real America, red-blue, Republican, statistics, Texas, urban-rural divide, voting
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Sunrise at Mt Whitney
August 11, 2002 I took one look at the crowds at Trail Camp and said, “There is no way we’re stopping here” so we climbed the 99 switchbacks, and pitched our tents at 14,000 feet in the dead of darkness. … Continue reading
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The unforgiving bush
My wife cannot orgasm from oral sex. I have been told that my technique is awesome, but nothing seems to be working. Please tell me there’s a way. I passed your letter around the sorority house, and after the laughter … Continue reading
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So Meta
I was reading Smithsonian’s 40th anniversary issue when I ran across this article on the future of reading. Since I was on my iPad, I had to take this screenshot. Get Zinio for the iPad, zoom in on what interests … Continue reading
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WordPress Rocks (…err Swings)
WordPress 3.0 (Thelonious) update just went out: The WordPress.org people have done a great job. There is even a new default blog theme (which if you haven’t gathered I’ve been using for the last half year). I even broke out … Continue reading



