Reviving the blog and moving the political posts there. Like this if you want to see less politics on FB!
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Moving Gaily Blogwards
26-Apr-12Progress: Bathroom Edition
17-Apr-12I remember when I was a kid my family had these little plastic handles that fit on the end of toothpaste tubes to provide a better mechanical advantage when squeezing toothpaste out. These days toothpaste tubes are made out of soft plastic and even kids have no trouble squeezing them.
Sqlite ‘database table is locked’ error
07-Feb-12Having even one query in-progress prevents you from dropping even a temp table in sqlite. Have a nice day.
Badge Care
15-Mar-11Do not use for any other purpose other than for access control or identification. Do not leave in direct sun light, for example on the dash of your car. Do not expose to extreme heat or open flame. For example, clothes dryers or clothes irons. Do not expose to organic solvents, thinners, mineral spirits, etc. […]
Little-Known Fact
09-Mar-11Before Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook (with the motto “move fast and break things”) he was involved in a previous venture. This startup — promoting Kellog’s All-Bran cereal — had the motto “breakfast and move things”.
If We Took Michael Moore’s Advice
09-Mar-11Michael Moore says the US is not broke: all “we the people” need to do is take the money back from the fat cat billionaires. What if we took this advice? Let’s imagine expropriating some of the wealth of the richest man in America, William Gates III. Forbes says he’s worth about $54 billion, of […]
Lent 2011
09-Mar-11Let’s get Lenten! Woo! I’m pumped for self-denial! Yahoo!
New Kinds of Taxes
04-Mar-11Kling: “One point about the Great Substitution of leisure for work is that leisure escapes taxation. That raises all sorts of issues. ” Non-consumption tax. Video game tax. Sitting around tax. Doing nothing tax. Mental activity tax. Oh wait, that last one is basically thoughtcrime. What, did the US suddenly get Canada envy?
I hadn’t encountered this before: Place-Manner-Time vs. Time-Manner-Place languages, an attribute of the ordering of adpositional phrases. Examples from Wikipedia: English (PMT): I’m traveling to Munich by car today. German (TMP): Ich fahre heute mit dem Auto nach München. Japanese, which I’m trying to learn, is a TMP language like German. French and Finnish, which […]
No Woman No Cry: You’re Parsing it Wrong
04-Mar-11It doesn’t mean “If you don’t have a woman, you won’t have to cry”. Which really seemed like the most sensible reading to me.