January 2008 Seventeen posts

• 30-Jan-2008

  
  Not Very Helpful, Really But rather entertaining.

  birdphotos
• 29-Jan-2008

  
  Abort, Retry, Fail If at first you don’t succeed. Retry. Hey y’all. Getting back in the saddle after not feeling too well. Also, I did a rough draft of my taxes and it looks like we need to save a pile of money or The Tax Man is gonna be mad. But have no fear, we have payment...

  fictionmisc
• 26-Jan-2008
  The Misc For The Week Douglas Crockford on Change: Change isn’t good enough. The word change doesn’t include a direction or an intention. We have had a lot of change over the last seven years. Most of it was in a seriously wrong direction. We will be feeling the effects of that change for decades to come. I say no...

  misc
• 24-Jan-2008

  
  Found Object A) Cute B) Disturbing C) Funny D) All of the above E) Other via Vintage Ads

  misc
• 24-Jan-2008
  Movies Owned Which Can Predictably Induce Crying Children of Men Clean and Sober Good Will Hunting The Killing Fields Running on Empty 28 Days

  movies
• 23-Jan-2008

  
  Transit Nothing today. More tomorrow. Photo from two weeks ago.

  photos
• 21-Jan-2008
  The End of Uncov A blog I have mentioned before that I enjoy is closing. I hate that. Uncov, the foulmouthed CS-heavy blog. is closing, as an afterthought, Ted writes: Oh, right. One more thing. This is the last Uncov. Ever. I have been getting tired of it, and this has been manifesting itself in my writing. After seeing...

  blogfunnytech
• 21-Jan-2008

  
  The Figure 5 in Gold The Figure 5 in Gold: Charles Demuth’s Art & William Carlos Williams’ Poem This has been sitting in draft mode for a few weeks now, and now here’s the real thing. I think the first time I ever saw this painting was when I was in the 6th grade in New Orleans. It struck me...

  art
• 20-Jan-2008

  
  Bizarre Data-Mining Oddness from Sprint The image: Click through to for my speculations on how this happened, though I really have no idea.

  misc
• 15-Jan-2008
  Bebo: Yet Another Social Network I’m working with Facebook Apps this week and in looking at it I note that bebo.com apps are roughly compatible with them. So I signed up for Bebo. Anyone else in there? Here’s me: http://www.bebo.com/JoeC664

  social-software