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A Decade in Reverse
So, the other day, I was digging through some of my old photographs, and ran into some pictures of me from about a decade ago. Some of you probably don't remember when I weighed 178lbs, and some of you didn't even know me back then. Either way, you may find this little before-and-after interesting:
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High-Def Gaming
I am sick to death about hearing about the "new" era of "high-def gaming." I'm sorry, but some of us have been gaming in resolutions higher than NTSC for, oh, decades now. -
New Rule
I was just reading an article about pollution in China, and this bit really got to me:
Liu wears a small green cap and an oversize pair of sunglasses. "We are a developing country," he says. "We aren't yet in the position to take on international obligations." Beijing has signed the Kyoto Protocol -- which aims to reduce CO2 emissions worldwide by ( Read more... ) -
You know you're impatient when...
...you try to ALT-TAB out of your boot sequence. -
Geek Love
[Cross-posted from my dev blog.]
For those of you who still use vi/vim on the Windows platform, hang on to your hats. I know you're used to nothing ever changing, but there is, in fact, news. There's a new, less ugly user interface available for your old favorite text editor ( Read more... ) -
Dear Parking Lot Owners,
The correct response to the increased size of vehicles over the latter part of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s was not to make parking spaces smaller. In your idiotic efforts to try to squeeze one more parking space in a row, you have succeeded only in rendering multiple parking spaces completely unusable by anyone, due to the inevitable ( Read more... ) -
Dear Restaurants...
Dear Restaurants,
I would like to warn you in advance, before I arrive:
1.) Mustard, not mayo.
2.) Wheat, not white.
3.) Skim, not whole.
4.) VINAIGRETTE IS NOT CREAMY.
Thank you. -
Two Open Letters
Dear Microsoft ( Read more... ) -
Brrrrrrrr.
It's snowing. In Austin. In Texas.
