Archives for October 2002
[Untitled #448]
75 words, no comments October 9, 2002 6:38am
Having fun in Firenze stop One week already spent around Italy and less than one week left stop Saw the Pope in Rome he says hi stop ...
free! dumb!
271 words, no comments October 16, 2002 5:18pm
I'm back from Italy, and completely inable to summarize how nice it all was, so instead I jotted down the following screed. As a famous philosopher ...
[Untitled #449]
55 words, no comments October 17, 2002 3:33pm
According to this CNN article, when informed that North Korea may have nuclear weapons, "Bush found the news ... 'sobering'." I just want to know ...
solicitor-b-gone
109 words, 2 comments October 17, 2002 3:41pm
One of the easier phone solicitations I've ever dealt with happened yesterday: Phone Solicitor: Is Todd Stadler there? Me: May I ask who's ...
[Untitled #450]
184 words, no comments October 18, 2002 3:42pm
According to this CNN article, there is a hit song sweeping the world: "The Ketchup Song". It appears to incorporate Spanglish versions of "Rapper's ...
not-so-humble pi
336 words, 4 comments October 21, 2002 6:00pm
You know, a few years ago, I memorized the first one hundred twenty (120) digits of pi. I first started memorizing ? meditating on, even ? this ...
[Untitled #451]
47 words, no comments October 28, 2002 5:48pm
Okay, so can anyone tell me why there is a picture of a choo-choo train in this article on third-generation mobile phone networks? Am I missing something? ...
[Untitled #452]
128 words, no comments October 29, 2002 2:06pm
Reading through CNN today, the theme was "sex": E-mail greeting card hides porn. Surprise, part of the blame lies with Microsoft's shoddy security ...
hang a richard
633 words, 3 comments October 29, 2002 3:29pm
I've recently decided that I have been too left-leaning in recent days and months. I'm not sure what triggered this realization, exactly. Maybe ...
head straight, don't turn
210 words, 1 comment October 29, 2002 4:29pm
Of course, what I'd like even more than equally-biased sources is for the media to report the truth. This is, of course, a difficult thing to ...
[Untitled #453]
51 words, no comments October 30, 2002 1:00pm
In reading an article on XML today, I was reminded of the term "sneakernet". For some reason, that makes me smile every time I read it. Clever computer ...
[Untitled #454]
87 words, no comments October 31, 2002 2:25am
William Safire on his prediction (registration required) that the majorities will reverse in both the House and Senate: "The creative gridlock wouldn't ...
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