Posted in Web on October 26th, 2002 No Comments »
jonah - was kind enough to answer my math question.
Following the link to his site, I found one of his links to a very funny story of useful foreign phrases to use while traveling through Europe. This story was featured on Über. How have I missed this site all this time? I had heard of Ben Brown, the site’s senior editor. But, I’d never been to Über before. Good reading all around.
See - you will use Algebra later in life.
Posted in Fun on October 25th, 2002 No Comments »
Good thing I decided to check skittish’s site. Looks like the planned meeting of LA bloggers has been cancelled.
Hmm, now what am I going to do with myself tomorrow?
Posted in General on October 25th, 2002 No Comments »
Cool. It looks like the fountain of youth isn’t in Florida, but right here in my own backyard. I give you the the Integratron. Now don’t go hogging all of the cell rejuvenating harmonic waves. I needs to get me some of that anti-aging mojo too you know.
Truthfully, I have sort of wanted to go check out the desert sometime, and this being in the middle of it may be an excellent reason to do it.
Posted in Books on October 25th, 2002 No Comments »
Thanks to Shannon for pointing me to this review of the book, The Future and Its Enemies, The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress by Virginia Postrel.
Many, many subtle ideas to twist my little brain around for a while.
Posted in Interface Design on October 25th, 2002 No Comments »
I may want to refer to this again one day:
Can you share any guiding principals or "best practices" in the presentation of Key Performance Indicators to the senior executives of a corporation?
Posted in Fun on October 24th, 2002 No Comments »
Will you lose your shirt or your head? It’s time to play Strip or Die!
Posted in General on October 24th, 2002 8 Comments »
Anybody know if there is a way to solve for X and Y in this equation without resorting to random substitution?
X^2 - Y^2 = 45
Please show your work kids.
Posted in Other Media on October 24th, 2002 No Comments »
Think your congressional reps have been bought? With Opensecrets.org, it’s now super simple to find out who’s doing the buying.
Posted in Personal on October 23rd, 2002 No Comments »
I’ve never been a closer.
I went to this networking/cocktail party type deal tonight. Every time I go to one of these things, I remember why I never go to these types of things. more…
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Posted in Web on October 23rd, 2002 No Comments »
Note to Self: Stop drinking stuff concurrent to enjoying the Register’s irreverent brand of journalism
Nokia is creaming Microsoft in the phone business, Bill Gates said yesterday. Gates admitted the company is "way, way, way behind Nokia", according to a Financial Times report.Three "ways" is significant - because Bill’s "way"-scale is logarithmic (not a lot of people know that)