October 2008
16 posts
“Elborno said even McCain supporters were among those being asked to leave. “I...”
– Pre-emptive ejection: Audience members removed at McCain rally in Cedar Falls
Oct 31st
Oct 30th
Spammers ask all the important political questions in their subject lines: “McCane or Obama? Who’s longer?”
Oct 28th
Accused man allegedly drives stolen SUV to court →
Absolutely genius.
Oct 28th
For some reason my phone can figure out what time zone I’m in automatically, but can’t figure out daylight savings.
Oct 26th
Oct 24th
Oct 23rd
Cardinology →
New album from Ryan Adams & The Cardinals — available to stream in full. Their best album for several years.
Oct 23rd
Registerfly
I just received a rather baffling response from Registerfly. I submitted the following support ticket to them: I’d like to cancel my account. All six domains listed in my account were transferred away about a year ago and I’m not intending to register any new domains with you. They responded: Thank you for contacting our billing support department. We have investigated the...
Oct 22nd
WatchWatch
Obama ‘08 - Vote For Hope on Vimeo (via Vimeo) Very well-made.
Oct 20th
A Children’s Treasury of Wingnut Responses To... →
Oh my, these comments are worrying.
Oct 20th
Police arrest Mich. man for car wash vacuum sex →
Police say a Michigan man has been arrested after “receiving sexual favors from a vacuum” at a car wash. I’m guessing he got tired of his vacuum at home, so he went out and paid for one. The vacuum equivalent of prostitution.
Oct 20th
Listening to Ryan Adams and The Cardinals on some American radio station. They actually have more advertising than content.
Oct 17th
Keeping the default theme for now, since it looks nice and I’m busy.
Oct 17th
I’ve moved this blog to Tumblr. I’m very, very happy with how Tumblr works. I’ve only kept a handful of the posts from the old blog, but the ones I didn’t copy were mostly all crap anyway. Also didn’t bother copying the comments, since I couldn’t see a quick/easy way to do it. (Probably a good idea to update the feed URL in your RSS reader if it’s not...
Oct 17th
2 tags
Which do I follow?
The license agreement for Call of Duty 4 for OS X says: “You agree not to … Copy the Program onto a hard drive or other storage device; you must run the Program from the included DVD-ROM” And the installation instructions are just: “To install Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, drag the Call of Duty 4 folder on the DVD to your computer’s hard disk.” Oops.
Oct 14th