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Apr 25, 2004
Miscellaneous

Lincoln Park Trixies

My friend Jen, executive administrator extraordinaire, goes by the name LP Trixie on MSN Messenger. I asked her about this a week or so ago, only to discover Chicago’s most elite social organization: the Lincoln Park Trixies. What is an LP Trixie...

Apr 25, 2004
Personal Life

Insomnia

I don’t really have insomnia, but I feel that way on nights like this. We hit Beta 1 ZBB on Friday, and I had the most amazing night of sleep last night: slept like a brick for 8 hours and woke up feeling refreshed and alive. I feel like sleep is ...

Apr 16, 2004
Zoon Politikon

Steel Shipping Container Politics

Mickey Kaus writes: “If I were a Democrat–oh wait, I am a Democrat–if I could keep Kerry in a sealed steel shipping container until November 1, I would.” Kaus definitely has a point. Bush is doing a bang-up job tearing himself apart. Strangely en...

Apr 06, 2004
Zoon Politikon

The end times are nigh

Instapundit just bashed Bush and praised Kerry. Holy cow! Seriously, though. The Bush Administration’s “War on Porn” is the most ill-conceived plan I’ve heard about since just before Sept 11 2001. This feels like more of the really weird, hare-bra...

Apr 03, 2004
Miscellaneous

Dissecting our Heroes

Rory, in a fit of East Coast U2-induced despondency, decided to dissect his childhood heroes. My personal favorites: George Lucas, he man responsible for creating my childhood, also destroyed it That’s definitely true. I hate you George L...

Mar 18, 2004
Miscellaneous

blizzards

I remember why I hate winter in the rest of the country. Wow. Talk about a blizzard…

Mar 01, 2004
iRooster

The Genesis of iRooster

Ah, another successful day in terms of the growing popular appeal of iRooster. More and more people are hitting my blog looking for serial numbers for iRooster. For anyone who runs into this entry trying to find a way around paying $10 for the app...

Feb 24, 2004
Technology

My Kingdom for a LISP

I’m working on a project right now that requires me to parse a humongous tree of data (folders and html files), and then build all sorts of interesting visual structures out of this information. It’s being done in C#, since it’s an ASP.Net web app...

Feb 23, 2004
Miscellaneous

blizzards

I remember why I hate winter in the rest of the country. Wow. Talk about a blizzard…

Feb 22, 2004
Random Funniness

Ever Wonder What the Degauss Button Does?

Sharpened.net: “Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.” Yup, it scares the bad magnetism out of your monitor. Makes sense to me. Now if only I could get a “turn into a 21” LCD screen” button for my ol...