Category Archives: misc

34 ways to die*

My new Japanese ashtray makes it easy to quantify my failure to quit smoking.
Plus, it closes shut to keep the stinky mess in.
Finally, the iPhone camera is an embarrassment.

*: or at least, to smell bad and age faster.

If it *is* Biden…

…that would be pretty cool. Biden was always my second choice during the primary season, over Dodd, Giuliani, McCain, Richardson, Clinton, Romney, Huckabee, Paul, Edwards, that crazy anti-immigration guy who stuttered and looked like he would cry when the moderators wouldn’t let him finish what the fuck was it oh yeah Tancredo, um, Hunter, the […]

blink faster

The languid pulsing of the insertion-point cursor when editing text is an aspect of Mac OS X that has bothered me for years, but bothered me to such a tiny degree that I never bothered to find out if there was a way to fix it.
But today I finally asked the oracle, and inside of […]

Barack good; Hillary bad; positions orthogonal.

I strongly support Barack Obama. I strongly dislike Hillary Clinton. But these positions aren’t connected, contrary to the widespread assumption reiterated most recently today by Bill Press.
Okay, sure, the fucking whore radio host was wrong to call the fucking whore candidate a "fucking whore" on the air. Whatever, dude. But the increasingly common assumption he […]

GRIEFERS KILLING EPILEPTIC SPAZTARDS VIA THE MATRIX!

WOW, BLACK ICE, FINALLY!
WELL, AT LEAST GREY ICE. OKAY, KINDA SHIT-LOOKING BROWN ICE. BUT STILL…

good Bruce Schneier interview

A good interview with Bruce Schneier, discussing this and that. He’s one of the few smart people that exist, and this Freakonomics interview is geared toward the layman (ahem, Dad) and worth reading. (To protect against the idiot webmasters of the future and/or the present, I made an archive copy of the article.)

new gun

My grandma got me this new gun. It’s red, which is kind of lame, but in her defense it is kind of hard to find realistic looking guns that still shoot. Especially cowboy guns. My dad told me I am lucky that it’s the seventies.