Internets - I have a dilemma ( Read more... )

More and more, I've been thinking - what exactly is the [predominately] right-wing Christian problem with us? It goes way beyond prejudice, there's a real fear - the irrationality of which is so severe it makes me wonder, where in god's name (no pun intended) does it come from ( Read more... )

It's been a really long time since I updated LJ, and quite a few things have changed in my life... oh man... this is gonna be a long braindump of an entry ( Read more... )

Global Warming ( Read more... )

It would be called the "Deprecated Functions" and it's patch would look like this:


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Poll How do you type woof?

I personally use "woof" unless it's at the beginning of a sentence (rare), and sometimes "WOOF" for emphasis.

I left out the "I don't use woof/ think it's stupid / bears don't woof" option - suck it.

It occurred to me that the problem with US cellphone companies is that they're still stuck in the paradigm that ISPs were in 10 years ago. You had AOL, CompuServ, MSN, and a few others that basically provided the same service, but each company had something nifty that you could only get on their software and their service. Thankfully, now your ISP ( Read more... )

So it's been several weeks since I've checked LJ, and several more weeks than that since I've posted. This is a good thing, really, because I've been spending most of my time hanging with friends and doing stuff IRL. Not that this entry is about to do many of these events justice, but to give you an idea of what's been going on with me ( Read more... )

Political discourse has become an aphrodisiac that has seduced our community away from equally important issues. Perhaps it is time we go into rehab and free ourselves from the Washington crack pipe. It is a cheap high that rarely lasts and often leaves us broke and unsatisfied ( Read more... )

I turned off cross-posting of twitter to my journal - I don't post here that often, but figure that "longer, but more infrequent posts" are more conducive to a journal than daily one-liners. If you also want to follow me on twitter, I'm pfriedma there as well ( Read more... )