Let’s accept, for a moment, the ridiculous post-9/11 restrictions on airport egress that imply I’m about an equivalent risk to civil security as an airline passenger as I would be driving a truck with 80,000 pounds of hazardous cargo.
Once they’ve effectively imprisoned me within the system, can’t they at least offer a fenced-in pen for […]
Category Archives: asides
Airyard
May 4, 2008 – 6:22 pm
Classname of the day
April 14, 2008 – 10:07 pm
GodKillsAKittenEveryTimeYouUseMe: recommended static field type for storing injector references (if you must) in Guice.
Message about media
April 6, 2008 – 8:07 am
My “no distinction between publisher and consumer” definition of social media seems to have caused a little to-do locally.
Two Ton Boa
January 7, 2008 – 8:06 pm
8 years after the demise of my previous favorite band, I believe I’ve found their heir: Two Ton Boa opened for The Dresden Dolls, and I’m in love.
Discrete weather
January 3, 2008 – 10:35 pm
Yahoo forecasts a high temperature of 51° immediately followed by a low of 57°. At no time this weekend will it be 52°–56°.
Kindle
November 19, 2007 – 11:32 am
My completely unwarranted review of Amazon’s new Kindle e-book reader, without touching one:
The eink screen’s light gray colouring looks ideal, and a bright white would certainly cause eyestrain. But what’s with the white casing? It appears distracting, like reading a paperback in a frame that covers the margins in bright white.
The keyboard is entirely too […]
As simple as driving
February 18, 2007 – 2:02 pm
GreatCall is advertising mobile phones for “Baby Boomers and their parents” with big buttons, easy-to-read displays, and simplified UI. This is ingenious, and I expect they’ll be quite successful.
One of the phones features three big dial buttons. Although the middle button is configurable (along with a contact list: do-it-yourself, ask a friend or […]
Visual weblog
February 16, 2007 – 9:42 pm
A crazy idea that needs to be written down to get it out of my head: a wordless, visual weblog. Posts are pictures with no explanation prose, and the comments form is a sketchpad for visitors to draw upon.
Finally getting along
February 10, 2007 – 10:33 pm
The Angry Professor: I no longer view Hans as a huge pain in my ass. I can see a big, goofy sweetheart in there.
Their ethics fail because we’re asking too much of them
February 1, 2007 – 9:21 am
The UCI’s threat to reduce the grand tours is the single biggest threat our sport has faced in years. And if they do it, it will be the nail in the coffin of a sport that was born out of the ashes of long-distance suffering. The very thing that makes our sport so popular will […]
