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May 03, 2005
Video Games

Feet and Bacon

Gizmodo: Sometimes I ask him to rub my feet. Sometimes I ask him to explain himself very slowly, then close the AIM window and do it all over again while I fry up some bacon. (it’s far more innocuous than it sounds ;-)

May 02, 2005
Zoon Politikon

The Quagmire President

Ruy Texiera has an interesting analysis of El Presidente’s first hundred days in his second term: The President’s miscalculation that a 2.5 percent margin of victory in the popular vote constitutes a mandate for trashing the New Deal’s most popula...

May 02, 2005
Random Funniness

When Star Wars Meets LiveJournal

I just found my new favorite weblog, The Darth Side - Memoirs of a Monster: …You try to be an effective manager, you weed out the bad apples like the late Admiral Ozzel – only to find that an insidious culture of incompetence has somehow transform...

May 01, 2005
Technology

Uber-Geeks

Ah, the good kids at MIT are at it again. There’s going to be a time travelers’ conference on May 7th. Specifically, it will be at: May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC) East Campus Courtyard, MIT 42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W...

Apr 30, 2005
iRooster

Tiger

Today should be Tiger Day here at the sixDollarChimp ranch. We’re heading out to pick up a copy as soon as we can rouse ourselves from our slumber on this hopefully beautiful Saturday morning. Friday would have been Tiger Day, but bigger (babel’in...

Apr 25, 2005
Zoon Politikon

You Don’t Apologize For Being Right

I touched upon two wildly different political viewpoints today in my reading. The first was from another Mac shareware developer, Eric Barzeski, who wrote a truly chilling blog entry about his freaky conservative beliefs in guns, guns, everywhere!...

Apr 24, 2005
iRooster

iRooster Weekly Update

Another Sunday means another iRooster update. This week saw a few developments. iRooster for Mac OS X I am still plowing through v2.1.1. I released Beta 4 this week, which features a large reduction in lines of code in the project (I cut out ab...

Apr 21, 2005
Developer Tools

What the…

Periodically, I find very entertaining search queries in my referrer log for this website. Yesterday produced another gem: visual c express crack. What makes me go “huh?” about this is that the Express Editions of Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 are to...

Apr 19, 2005
iRooster

iRooster Status Update

(Written at 35,000 feet somewhere between Minneapolis and Seattle) I’ve been on vacation for most of this week, but I still found a few hours to work on iRooster. Typically, when I’ll be gone from Seattle for more than a week I will bring my Appl...