Month: February 2006
The Disappearing Compact Cassette
I bought this Listen & Read Uncle Wiggily Bedtime Stories for the girls. Turns out the 2006 Honda Odyssey does not have a cassette player. We hadn’t ...
You Can Get Fired for Buying Microsoft
You can’t get fired for buying Microsoft I hear through the grapevine that there is evidence that the postulate is false.
Google Pages
So Google has a personal web page product, aside from Blogger. Apparently it’s a little over-loaded at the moment. Somehow I think the implementation will...
Climatic Fluctuations
Interesting show on the History Channel about the effects of the Little Ice Age. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has a disturbing collection of papers ab...
Auto-Annoying
I turned off auto-run on my Windows desk the other day. Auto-run is a feature which permits the operating system to start an application when a disc is inserted...
Avoid the Eljer Patriot toilet
The Eljer Patriot toilet has no power. It stops up — frequently. Unless you love plunging after each attempt to flush, and have a mop, avoid it.
See Curious George
We saw Curious George on my birthday. It’s funny! Roger Ebert doesn’t think it appeals to all members of the family, but I do. Maybe he needs a todd...
Game of Tag
Damn. I got caught; Rick tagged me! Four jobs I’ve had Cashier Secretary Pre-Press Operations Sysadmin Dad Oops, that was five. Four movies I can watch over and...
Museum on Stilts
I ran across a blurb in the paper about Louisville’s new art museum, by the same firm which worked on Seattle’s public library. It will be housed in...
Retry-After: After After
Whilst reading the HTTP/1.1 specification for something else, I noticed that the Retry-After header may be used with 3xx redirection status codes. This field MA...
The Odor on this Coffee
Avoid Folgers French Vanilla. It has a smell I can’t place, but isn’t coffee. Perhaps ground wood chips? Perhaps an inferior bean? Perhaps unfair tr...
Life in the Manor House
This quiz at Manor House doesn’t have my father’s profession. What? Clergy don’t have children?
Profile America
If you’ve an interest in historical trivia, the United States Census Bureau has a very interesting series called Profile America [podcast]. Monday, Januar...
On Reducing Demand
World oil prices peaked in real terms in 1980 at about $90 per barrel. In 1977, U.S. imports were 6.6 million barrels per day. By 1985, imports had been cut in ...
Postage Paid
Tom Evslin opines on the attempt by
Fruit Stickers
You know those stickers the grocers put on the fruits and other produce because the cashiers are ignorant of the prices and names of the fruit, and have to type...
Attendance at Movie Theaters: A Simple Economic Problem
Mark Cuban notes that the National Association of Theatre Owners has issues with the simultaneous release of Bubble in multiple distribution channels, and discu...