ugh. today could have been awesome. however, that is not the case

I saw the news that Tina Fey was leaving SNL for an NBC prime-time comedy about a late-night sketch show. (fox news). Its called 30Rock. ok, fine. SNL has been struggling, Tina's sketches aren't very good, but weekend update usually isn't bad ( Read more... )

People. Please stop saying "Git r Done!" Especially at work, on work projects.
Anytime I hear that, my respect for you gets cut in half. I dont care if you're Stephen Hawking.

Here's a plot:

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NBC has announced a new show they are working on with Aaron Sorkin (who, I recently discovered this weekend wrote A few good men ( Read more... )

So, I got the good ol' quarterly bonus from work on friday, and prompty drove out to the camera store. Ive had my eye on a DSLR ever since I took the photography class at school, and I recently figured that I had the money to finally get one. I ended up with a canon rebel xt, with a 28-135 IS USM lens, for anyone that knows about these things. ( Read more... )

To anyone who doesn't know, Microsoft has 'reserved names' that can't exist as files or folders Anywhere on your system.

Also, if this file happens to get created by a program or script, you might not be able to open it with said program, although explorer might open it.
I think id be ok if they weren't allowed to exist in a certain root path on a ( Read more... )

So, I was fooling around with google's translator today, and found it yields some interesting results if you tell it to start with the wrong language. For example, when doing german to english on my other site ( Read more... )

So, Im not really a Slate fan, but this article was truly amazing.

I have a big problem with what the IOC calls sports. If your measuring stick can't be traced back to NIST, I want none of it. Skating and gymnastics and acrobatic stuff on skis is great, but they aren't sports.

So, those of you that follow my other blog already know about this. But I figured more people might want to know that over the past couple weeks I've been developing an unofficial RSS feed for the Rose-Hulman News page. Its a perl script that scrapes the content out of the pages, dumps it into a database, and builds the xml file for the 20 most ( Read more... )

So, i have unused userpic slots open and i laughed hysterically at one of those garfield strips i posted yesterday, so naturally, I present...


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"It is shocking to have your life work reduced to a tenth of a square inch of silicon."
--J. Presper Eckert, Chief Engineer, ENIAC. Interview - kinda old and short, but interesting ( Read more... )