Marco and his wife are coming to visit, and want to take in a hockey game; preferably the Calgary Flames.
Craig: st louis blues on fri, ny rangers on sunday
Marco: ok. Either one is good. Rangers is my pick.
Craig: FL panthers on the 12th, too bad you’ll be gone
Marco: yeah.
Marco: well, it’s better than watching the home team lose.
Craig: hehe
Craig: oh those are away games
Craig: yeah sorry you’re outta luck this year
Marco: no hokey?
Craig: unless we go to a minor-league game
Craig: no Flames in Calgary
Craig: they’re on the road that week/end
Marco: damn republicans
Craig: hah the hitmen [the local minor league team] are away that week too
Craig: so no hockey
Marco: ok
Marco: well, so be it
Craig: unless you want to find a college team or something...
These are in reference to the Discovery Institute’s intelligent design promotional campaign. I don’t know if they have a T-shirt too.
(Found at......
Why do computer scientists often confuse Christmas and Halloween?
Because Oct 31 = Dec 25
I’m not going to explain this one. If you don’t get it, you’re not going to find it funny anyway....
From In a Parachute-Effectiveness Trial, Who Gets the Placebo?.
It might be argued that the pressure exerted on individuals to use parachutes is yet another example of a natural, life-enhancing experience being turned into a situation of fear and dependency. The widespread use of the parachute may just be another example of doctors’ obsession with disease prevention and their misplaced belief in unproved technology to provide effective protection against occasional adverse events....
Fark sometimes has the best headlines:
A 73-year old widow in Manila, Philippines was hypnotized and robbed in the street by a short woman who pretended to be lost. Baffled local police are on the lookout for a small medium at large...
the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget cuts
From Ted’s Twitter, no idea where he got it......
We, as a nation, have to ask ourselves “What the hell is going on?
Apparently this woman’s water has been contaminated with electromagnetic radiation.
Via......
It started innocently enough; someone mailed the internal bloggers’ list
saying “We’ve got this
Beyond LAMP
article on SDN, might be good blog fodder.” Which constituted an opportunity
for geeks to have fun with acronyms.
That was yesterday, and they’re still coming.
Let’s assume that “L” always stands for Linux, “A” for Apache, “M” for MySQL,
and “P” for PHP (or Perl or Python).
AcronymKey
SAMPSolaris
MARSRails, Solaris
MAPSSolaris
SPAMSolaris
WIMPWindows, IIS
DAMNDirectX, ActiveX, .NET
WIMNWindows, IIS, .NET (pronounced “women”)
SINSQL Server, IIS, .NET
I bet you can think of some......
The Pastafarian belief of heaven stresses that it contains beer volcanoes and a stripper factory. Hell is similar, except that the beer is stale, and the strippers have VD.
From Flying_Spaghetti_Monster:......
Goddard College invents Masters in Consciousness degree to study eastern religious traditions. Actual Buddhists, Hindus in China and India lift heads from engineering textbooks, smile, get back to work taking over world
From......
Experienced entrepreneurs (who have “been there, done that”) often ask the question, “So, what keeps you up at night?”
Short answer: My kids. And more specifically, my younger son, Quinn Alexander Yoskovitz, who recently turned 1 year old. He’s been a bit under the weather, teething like a werewolf and grumpy like a seriously-constipated old man (and if you’ve ever met one of those, you know what I’m talking about!) This all translates into a complete lack of sleep. For the past year I’ve lived on about 4-5 hours of sleep per night. Some nights are better. Some are worse. A couple nights ago I got a grand total of 2 hours of sleep! The night ended (and the day started) with me driving Quinn around the city so he’d sleep in the car. A...
The back porch door was open and our adorable little almost-two-year-old,
all golden curls and pink dimples, was wandering in and out. One time as she
was coming in, I noticed Marlowe the cat was sort of hovering around her; then
the air was full of female shrieks: “She’s got a dead rat!” And so
she did, holding it up all eager to please, while Marlowe looked confused and
irritated. A fair-sized one too, with a good five inches of tail hanging
down. A few seconds later, she was just as confused and irritated as Marlowe,
for the same
reason, and the corpse was headed for disposal.
(Well, yes, we have two healthy cats that go outside, and this is a
waterfront city thus will always have rats, and our cats are well-fed so they
bring their prizes home to the back porch to show......
I’ve only got one wrinkle, and I’m sitting on it.
From Quotations by Jeanne Calment, the human with the longest confirmed......
National park wardens to get arms in 2009
I also hear they’ll be given hands by......
The story is interesting, but the real gold is in the Fark headline:
China surpasses the US as the world’s top carbon producer, making the problem real to conservatives and no longer interesting to liberals...
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Elmo, as in the Muppet.
Elmo is the only Muppet ever to testify before the U.S. Congress. At the request and with the assistance of Rep. Duke Cunningham, he testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education in April 2002, urging support for increased funding in music education.
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I’ve had Ian Rogers’
Convenience Wins, Hubris
Loses and Content vs. Context, a Presentation for Some Music Industry
Friends open in a browser tab for weeks, looking for a chance to use this
quote as evidence of enlightenment:
I’m here to tell you today that I for one am no longer going to
fall into this trap. If the licensing labels offer their content to Yahoo! put
more barriers in front of the users, I’m not interested. Do what you feel you
need to do for your business, I’ll be polite, say thank you, and decline to
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Under what circumstances should you burn a System-Wide upgrade certificate
to get breakfast?
What happened was, I had to get up at 5AM to make my flight to Vegas,
connecting through LAX. At Vancouver Airport security, there was an elderly
gentleman before me in the security line, and the X-Ray guy got round-eyed
looking at his bag, and called his supervisor, who called in a guy in a
black uniform with a big gun, and he called his supervisor.
They stopped the line and sent the people whose stuff wasn’t stuck inside
the machine off to other lines. The rest of us waited while things got tenser
and tenser. The passenger seemed really respectable and harmless; I suspect
that if he’d been carrying a Quran or looked “Middle Eastern” some severe
ethnic profiling, involving handcuffs...
We all know how vigorous and serious Apple is about their brand. Even when there’s a hiccup. Apple’s mastered the product launch, and gets everyone talking about them constantly.
The biggest lesson from Apple is really how far they’ll go to create a specific image to maintain and enhance their brand.
Apple’s currently planning to open a superstore in Montreal.
Great news for Mac fans.
And now we have news that Apple asked the city to remove 3 parking meters from in front of where the store will be to “simplify the look.” Parking meters are ugly after all - hardly representative of the Apple brand.
Apple was willing to compensate the city for lost revenues over 5 years. And guess what the city said? No.
It could have been a very interesting PR move for...
Indexed is a pretty self-explanatory blog, once you see it.
I like this one in particular, which Jessica Hagy did custom for Freakonomics Blog:...
I once worked in a bank, making loans to small business start-ups. Our rule of thumb was that 90% of new businesses fail. The exceptions were franchisees and pizza places. But we saw no shortage of people willing to mortgage their homes to start their own sporting good stores and boutique dress shops, despite the 90% chance of failure. Without clueless optimists, the economy would grind to a halt. My own career has been a long string of failures and a few notable successes.
I understand the math of capitalism, and how the few successes are so large they pay for all the failures and then some. But at any given moment, the majority of resources in a capitalist system are being pushed over a cliff by morons. This fascinates me. And it’s clearly the reason that humans rule the earth. We...
The weather is beautiful
The people there complain about the fog, but that’s just silliness. Come visit Montreal in February. Then talk to me about fog.
The city is nice
They’ve got the ocean, mountains and a vibrant city. The earthquake thing isn’t great, but get a sturdy a desk to hide under and you should be fine, right?
The startup community is unbeatable
I love the YCombinator system and got a chance to learn a lot about how it all works while I was there. Of course there are a ton of non-YCombinator startups doing incredible work as well…
So are you really moving to the Valley?
No, I’m not. But the thought certainly crossed my mind.
Mostly, this is because of how many people asked me if and when I was moving.
The question came from venture...