January 2010
12 posts
May 2000: Graduated college May 2000: Started my first job Feb 2001: Bought a house Apr 2001: Quit my first job and started my second Aug 2001: Got married Feb 2006: My daughter was born Dec 2009 (a week ago): Quit my second job and started my third¹
A quick timeline like this can’t convey all the incredible stuff I’ve gone through this past decade. Simply put, I became a grownup. All...
December 2009
24 posts
El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico - Timbalero
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“For my third tattoo, I’m going to get an Herve Villechaize talking action...”
– crustyjuggler72
Restaurant Efficiency
Guy in a restaurant notices all waiters carry a spoon in their shirt pocket. He asks his waiter, “why the spoon?”
The waiter responds, “well, some time ago, management hired these efficiency experts who found out customers drop their spoons 73.5% more often than other utensils. This represents about 3 spoons per hour, so if we carry a spoon all the time, we reduce the number of...
“Too many wrongly characterize the debate as “security versus privacy.” The real...”
– Schneier on Security: My Reaction to Eric Schmidt (via toldorknown)
The “nothing to hide” argument has been pretty much destroyed for some time now (just read the Daniel Solove essay). Anyone who still brings up this argument is being disingenuous or just plain ignorant. The fact that...
On Favrd, Twitter & Community: Why You Should Be... →
Kim Gaskins writes about the community that Favrd spawned and what’s next after the site closed. Includes quotes from Dan Wineman and Remiel on the issue of star devaluation, Jon Dascola on the real-life friendships formed, Nick Douglas on the personalities and projects that grew out of it, some of the charitable projects the community supported, and yours truly on the “no...
The Only Joke I Know
You know, the go-to joke, the one joke you always tell when someone says “tell a joke right now,” and that all your friends are sick of hearing. This is mine:
Guy gets on the bus. Only available seat is next to a little old lady who has a brown paper bag placed on the empty seat. Guy asks, “excuse me, can I take that seat?” Lady says, “yes, but be careful with the...
Gratuitous Paragraph
(More about my daughter than about me, actually.)
This morning I took my daughter to get an MRI. It’s a long story¹, but the thing is they had to sedate her for it, since she got scared when she first saw the MRI machine. Watching her fall asleep was a bit funny and really weird, since you’re basically watching a 3-year-old drunk person.
“Dad, everything is SOOOOO dizzy.”...
The Star Addiction
(Yeah, yeah. Here we go with another Favrd post…)
Dean Allen’s more detailed explanation about why he shut down Favrd instantly reminded me of Roger Ebert’s review of a 2002 documentary film called “Comedian.” The film follows Jerry Seinfeld as he goes back to the stand-up comedy circuit after retiring from his insanely successful TV show.
“Why, you might...
Probably the First Mention of AIDS on the Internet →
December 20, 1982, on the Usenet group net.singles. This was a few months after the CDC introduced the term “AIDS.”
The link is from Google’s Newsgroups archive. They have a very interesting Usenet timeline with links to the first ever discussions about important events in tech and World history since 1981, years before the World Wide Web even existed.
My Top 5 Things People Say Don't Lie, But Do (Week...
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