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Archive for January, 2004

How to make maki sushi, by geeks, for geeks

Friday, January 30th, 2004

Kuro5hin: Sushi-HOWTO.

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Damned email.

Friday, January 30th, 2004

I’m getting my diary entries seriously out of order, because I’m submitting most of them by email, and all the email servers in the world are getting hosed by this damnable virus. Stupid, stupid SMTP.

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Macsquerade

Friday, January 30th, 2004

Dave gets weird looks when he brings his PowerBook to meetings at Microsoft. I always get weird looks when my Dell laptop can be seen sporting a shiny Mac OS X menu bar (I’m using VNC, not Remote Desktop, of course).

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Followup by Adam Cadre on the “Dean scream”, and how absurdly small gaffes make or break candidacies.

Friday, January 30th, 2004

Followup by Adam Cadre on the “Dean scream”, and how absurdly small gaffes make or break candidacies. Hey, what I want to know is, will people start using the “Dean scream” in movies instead of the Wilhelm scream?

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* dsandler makes his wife cry <dsandler> <Erin> Hey, have you seen Armand?

Friday, January 30th, 2004

* dsandler makes his wife cry

<dsandler> <Erin> Hey, have you seen Armand? I haven’t seen him since I got back from my trip.

<dsandler> <Dan> Oh, he moved out.

<dsandler> <Erin> [weeps]

<mathias> isn’t Armand the cat?

<laz> Heh. Is that one of your cats?

<dsandler> Yes, one of our cats.

* dsandler fears that he will have to quit making jokes like that when we have actual children

<laz> No you won’t. They’ll just get funnier!

<dsandler> Um.

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I tried to quote the interesting parts, but I found myself including the entire piece.

Friday, January 30th, 2004

I tried to quote the interesting parts, but I found myself including the entire piece. Go over to Slacktivist and read about patriotism, angry economists, reckless fiscal policy, and … Gatsby.

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See Dean’s Iowa concession speech, and hear the infamous shout in context.

Friday, January 30th, 2004

See Dean’s Iowa concession speech, and hear the infamous shout in context. Doesn’t sound so ridiculous now, does it? In fact, you can barely hear it over the screaming of the crowd!

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