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Category Archives: Rants
Skewing the Feedback system
It always irritates me when I see feedback that doesn’t really pertain to the quality of the product they are reviewing or the service they received, like, “I love these earrings. Great quality. However, these earrings are smaller than I … Continue reading
Social Consciousness
I was contemplating buying this shirt from anthropolgie, because it looks like something I would wear. However, the political tendencies of the the owner, Richard Hayne, don’t agree with me. He also happens to own Urban Outfitters. He generally keeps … Continue reading
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Cloning an array in JavaScript
This frustrated me for like an hour today. The problem is that in JavaScript, arrays are treated like objects and are referenced when you really want to clone them. See embed.
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Better Rossi vs Stoner Video
Stoner vs Rossi Found this better version of the Rossi vs Stoner battle from Laguna Seca by the people at MotoGP.com. However, they disabled embedding. Why would you do that? Who runs that stupid motogp website? What a bunch of … Continue reading
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Yes, that must be it.
“It’s because they’re crazy,” she muttered under her breathe as she impatiently darted from lane to lane under the grass-is-always-greener freeway mentality. On the radio NPR was previewing a segment on increasing motorcycle rider fatalities despite lower overall traffic accidents. … Continue reading
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Gaining Customer Trust
“Unlike any of those computer-generated ‘guessimates’ that you get from the internet, we examine the value of your property accuretly.” (emphasis added) Well… if they’re as good at property value as they are with spelling, I think I’ll use someone … Continue reading
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No Internet
Jules and I are trying to take advantage of the internet without a phone line (dry-loop) service that ATT is being forced to offer now. Here are the steps so far: January 16: Jules calls and switches the plan. They … Continue reading
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IE8 Passes Acid 2 Test; Mike Still Sad
Recently the Internet Explorer development team posted that IE8 passes the Acid 2 standards test. Having spent a lot of time working around rendering issues in IE, I feel like I should be happy about this. I think I would … Continue reading
Operation Lucky Bag
During “Operation Lucky Bag” the police left shopping bags, backpacks and purses scattered around the subway system. Then they sat back and watched the items. Anyone who took one of the items and then walked past the police officers without … Continue reading
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Submission
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to … Continue reading