Archive for February, 2005
Sunday, February 27th, 2005
Ah, Karen. You bring shame upon us. OK, really more on you.
My University's former prez, Karen Hitchcock, who left in a big hurry a year back, apparently had good reason: The NYState Ethics Commision was after her for allegedly trying to arrange a kickback of a named ...
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005
So the "alien abduction" story on the local Fox station that I was interviewed for (see the earlier post, I am a media slut) was scheduled for a couple of days ago, but they hadn't found a good abductee to talk to. Now, I'm told they've found one -- ...
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
At 5, son Oz is a good bit ahead of his age in reading, but not at all so when it comes to linguistic pragmatics. Of course, pragmatic misinterpretation is at the heart of a whole class of old dumb jokes ("Why did the chicken cross the road?", or ...
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Monday, February 21st, 2005
Even with a scary name like Deep Dish Parabolic Template, this is the easiest and coolest little directional booster for your wireless router or access point. Takes about 10 minutes to make out of cardboard and an old soda can, works pretty damn well. Try it out; livened up ...
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Thursday, February 17th, 2005
WordPress 1.5 is out now. I expect that sometime in the next couple of days (Saturday morning, probably) I'll upgrade. Probably get a little site funkiness while that happens.
UPDATE: Got to it sooner than I thought; new version is up now (Thursday afternoon). Still some tweaking, but ...
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Thursday, February 17th, 2005
I've been getting hammered by comment spammers recently -- hundreds of tries -- but my best friend Kitten's Spaminator Plugin has handled essentially all of it flawlessly. Comment spam is so f-ing nasty; there's something way more personal about hammering your blog with comment spam than just adding your ...
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2005
It's like a scab I can't stop picking. From the site logs, the top 10 search terms bringing people to this blog. (All are from MSN Search.)
10. rumspringa
9. tiny tits blowjobs
8. people hidden cam
7. dancing teens pornographic images
6. drug jokes
5. hidden cam porn
4. newsweek chaney haliburton
3. beautiful tight ...
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Sunday, February 13th, 2005
Nice editorial in the NYTimes today on the stupidity of NASA's decision to let the Hubble die without a new servicing mission (Death Sentence for the Hubble?) -- a decision which nominally comes from outgoing NASA head Sean O'Keefe. As they nicely put it, this
...looks like the petulant final ...
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Saturday, February 12th, 2005
Hey, Happy Darwin Day, everybody.
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Thursday, February 10th, 2005
OK, so sometimes we let 5-year-old son Oz have fast food. So shoot us. Anyway, the other day my wife took him to MickyD's, mostly because everything outdoors is slush and he wanted to play in the "Playland". (For those of you out of the larvae-supervision loop, ...
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