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Aug 10, 2008
Miscellaneous

Words to live by

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Jul 03, 2008
Miscellaneous Random Funniness

Ivy League Admissions Policies

It strikes me that anyone capable of this sort of inane stupidity should never have made it into an Ivy League school in the first place: The scene: A play at Princeton’s Berlind Theater needs a line-prompter. A group email seeks volunteers. To mi...

Jul 16, 2006
Miscellaneous

a wee bit horked

I just upgraded my blog from Movable Type 3.2 to 3.3, and I appear to be running into a few issues. Hopefully, this post will find the isues resolved. Otherwise, I may just give it up and migrate to Wordpress (like I should’ve done a while ago :-P...

Jun 16, 2006
Miscellaneous

Writing Feedback

I received some feedback on a document I wrote recently. The commentor stated: You can’t have a sentence with two colons in it. It just isn’t done. Make it two sentences. Or three. Maybe four. Sigh.

Jun 04, 2006
Miscellaneous

Tom and Older Blog Posts

Also, I discovered all of my original blog posts still stored in an old database of mine here on brethorsting. They were an unfortunate casulty of my migration to Movable Type 3 a while back. Anyway, you’ll find them in the archive list; just st...

Feb 14, 2006
Miscellaneous

Jacktracking: The Post-Modern Timewaster

GridSkipper introduced a new service with the beginning of 24 Day 5 last month, the Jacktracker. The Jacktracker features: Insightful commentary (“Jack is dead. No he’s not. Frank Flynn = Jack Bauer. Frank drills oil, as well as Diane Huxley.”)...