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Curse of Lono Movie Site
I’d just like to say that this guy is sending a lot of traffic my way.
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Cynical Replies to Optimistic Sayings
Some folks have noted that under my jolly, light-hearted outside lurks a derisive, deeply cynical gnome. Indeed, being both at the same time seems like a good and wise sport in these times. Here’s some gnomic replies to happy sayings I was thinking about in the shower this morning: “A rising tide lifts all boats”….except…
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Curse of Lono Movie?
Sean Penn called at halftime to say he was feeling disillusioned about Hollywood and wanted to take a year off to concentrate entirely on becoming an expert surfer on Oahu’s intimidating North Shore. I had planned to study with him out there, but this huge, dirty, 40-pound cast on my left leg won’t work on…
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Evening Links: Women Changing Work, Aspirational Gap
The way women work: Five years ago, I left my own corporate fast-track career to work freelance, sacrificing all chances of traditional success and power. I did it because I could. I liked my work well enough, but I’d grown to hate corporate life with its hierarchies of halfwits, its waste-of-time politics and its thought…
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DIV vs. Table
There’s a fantastic presentation from an Adobe person on transitioning from tables to divs. Also, for all those cross-browser problems, and even for reference and lurnin’, I recently came across QuirksMode.org: chock full of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and quite a bit of interesting commentary and practical howto’s on each. Update: the links now work.
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Re: Java I/O Sucks Goat Ass
Several folks seem to be on the Sucks-Goat-Ass Bandwagon: Kasia Trapszo with a nice comments thread going. Jermy Zawodny, indirectly through the above; also with comments. There’s a good reply that I/O isn’t so bad. Russell Beattie, as cited by Senior Doozer Goat Ass Sucking JSR pending…
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Yeti the Dog Miscellany
I’m sure all of you are thinking, “JavaOne, yeah, yeah, but what about that damn fine lookin’ dog of yours?” Well, thanks to the wonders of e-mail (have you heard of it?), I have these updates from the lovely Kim Skotak: Yeti likes peanut butter. He likes apple slices. He likes peanut butter on apple…
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JavaOne: JXTA
Project JXTA: Open P2P Architecture Platform (TS-2915), Tuesday As I said earlier, JXTA has been the most interesting thing so far. The Tuesday session was presented by Bernard Traversat; I believe he’s the JXTA bigwig at Sun. As a pronunciation note, everyone seems to say “Jux-tah,” not “J-X-T-A.” What is JXTA? In short, JXTA is…
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Lost Baggage
Here’s a little “trip tip” for you: don’t put your keys in luggage you check. It seems like a good idea, of course. But the key assumption that your baggage will arrive home at the same time you will — instead of 9 hours later…you know, around 2:30AM — may not pan out. In short:…
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Can I Use the Word "Agile" Enough?
Zane’s post on the negative effects of personal motivations on software development reminded me of Cockburn’s discusion in Agile Development on the same topic. I went a-Googling for a write up, or summary of what was in the book. The closest thing I found was this, but the rest seemed like slim pickins. However, as…
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From Servlets and the Web Without the ability to show the customer something early, you’ll build the wrong thing. And even after you’ve built the right thing, the customer will want to tweak it. And in order to know whether what you’re doing is the right thing, you need to show it often.
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For some reason, I just got coteindustries.tc for free. Whoopie!
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Back in ‘97 Josh spray painted his car. Finally he’s got the images up.
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The Brunching Shuttlecocks Dungeons Dragons & To be honest, the plot makes as much sense as the rules involving the consumption of Iron Rations. I have no idea why they made a D&D movie with such a lofty “let’s save the little people” plot. Most D&D games I can remember playing involved going into the…
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Just what is Southern food – and where is it going? “There is no food that is characteristic of the whole South,” Pillsbury said. “Grits are not everywhere. Biscuits are not everywhere. And you have to be open-minded about what you call cornbread.”
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Once I hit 60, I’m gonna get in a balcony box like those two muppets Statler Waldorf. &
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Before headin’ home I created the Mr. Brown Drinkin’ Team FAQ at Kinman’s insistance.
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Fear and Loathing in America and Screwjack shipped from Amazon today; soon there’ll be some new HST to enjoy.
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My Horrible Dining Experience at IHOP in Killeen Dorothea said, “Because the waitress is talking to this girl who a while ago was one of the ones horseplaying. She was putting her hands under her armpit, holding out her elbows, and walking around like a chicken.” In front of the customers? I asked myself.
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Suck: Daily You know, Americans are a pretty kooky lot around alcohol. America has the highest percentage of abstainers of any western country. There are microscopic numbers of people who abstain in France or Italy. But close to 40 percent of Americans don’t drink alcohol at all. And they tend to accumulate in the Protestant…
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