December 2009
4 posts
Next Door Rant
Located right down the street from my home address is a fabulous coffee shop. There you may enjoy an excellent espresso. Or even, on some mornings, partake in tasty composition from an omelette/waffle bar. Or maybe a Mexican coke (with real sugar!) or a cold frothy alcoholic beverage.
A few months back a Next Coffee barista provided me with a rewards card, a mini-card keyring attachment so I...
Genie Mac
As I wrote previously, I ordered the new 27 inch iMac from apple.com/store.
It took a few weeks to ship and arrived last Friday.
So I thought I’d chronicle my experience with the new machine thus far, as well as some tidbits on transferring my applications and data from my old MacBook Pro.
First, the 27 inch 2560x1440 resolution monitor is absolutely gorgeous. Upon initial gaze, it...
Dear Websites Whose Names Shall Be Withheld…
dailymeh:
When I clicked on “Print”, I did not give you permission to launch my printer. It’s a forgivable mistake, but when I click on “Print”, I don’t mean “Please help me print this website out”, I mean “Please take me to a version of this article that is on a single page rather than many short pages, and that isn’t covered in ads and widgets.” I know how to print out a goddamn website. If...
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A Tragic Virtue
War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics and of troops by politicians. —Chris Hedges
And the Pat Tillman story, chronicled in Jon Krakauer’s Where Men Win Glory; The Odyssey of Pat Tillman (Krakauer is also the author of Into the Wild, the story of Christopher McCandless Alaska trek made into a big screen movie), is certainly emblematic of that...