Sweden is pretty cold. The thermometers all have a big fat ZERO (celsius) right in the middle, indicating (I believe) that the mercury is just as likely to be below it as above it. I was there a week, this time, and never saw it go above that zero. I did see the sun, one […]
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All Points North
As my wife and child head below the equator and further to the sunburnt country, I’ll be flying north north north to Stockholm. So weeklyrob will suffer. Expect the next post some time after December 20th, 2007. [‘Course, if I feel the urge, and have the access, I may drop in a post here or there.]
Computers are Dumb
I get hundreds of comment spams a day for this blog. If it’s not obvious what that means, it means that spammers leave spam comments on my posts. Since the email address they enter isn’t on my “Allowed” list, their comments go to a queue where I decide whether to approve them or not. Obviously, […]
Harlan Ellison is Pissed
And cusses about it. And cusses. My thoughts: Right on! [Link from BookLust.]
Mishmash.
The New York Times has published its 100 Notable Books of 2007, and its 10 Best Books of 2007. Should I be surprised that I’ve read none of them? I don’t read a lot of brand new books, though I do occasionally get some of the newest nonfiction, since nonfiction is often only good when […]
Glowing dots hover mouth level
The Pac-Man text adventure. Link from Extraface and his always entertaining “Friday Heh.”
Immaculate
There’s a type of humor in which a person takes a word, like immaculate (meaning spotless, of course), and spins it around by using “maculate” to mean stained or dirty. I was whelmed, rather than overwhelmed, for example. But of course, most of those humorous words actually WERE used for real, back in the day. […]
On Quitting
Everyone talks about giving up as such a bad thing. And if you give up early, or before putting in a huge effort, then it’s even worse. I think that’s because everyone compares quitting with NOT quitting. But it’s often more realistic to compare quitting now with quitting later. And in that context, quitting before […]
Ok. Now I've Done That.
Read all about it.
CNN vs. ALDAILY
Of course, CNN Online is abysmal and aldaily ROCKS. But other than that, here’s the difference: When I write to CNN Online to tell them of a mistake in an article (like a typo, or missing words, or sentences that end in the middle of a thought), I never hear a word, and the mistake stays […]