Month: September 2010
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Incredibly Depressing Mega Millions Lottery Simulator!
Here’s an interesting way to make yourself lose any faith you had in ever winning the lottery by playing the same numbers every week: Incredibly Depressing Mega Millions Lottery Simulator!. It lets you select five numbers, then plays them against a random drawing, simulating two tickets a week for ten years. I just tried it and…
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Sunburn oracle
Here’s the latest time machine for me: I got this stupid sunburn on Sunday, which isn’t as bad as it could be, but it’s an annoyance, mostly because I’ll be sitting here during the day, staring at a FrameMaker window, and then suddenly realize I’m scratching my arm like a crank addict trying to break…
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Pantone is not a shampoo
I think this sunburn is fucking with my head. I went to the Rangers-A’s game yesterday and it was hotter than hell out for the end of September. I think part of it is the Oakland Coliseum is such a horrible place, all concrete and built by the same architects that turned out prisons in…
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Moving (again)
We are moving again. This will be the sixth time I move in five years. But, as I said last time, this will be the last time I move for a long time. Let me first preface this by saying I am not moving back to New York. I work in New York, but I…
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Memory
I’ve been working in VMware all week, and constantly swapping virtual memory, even though this computer has four gigs of RAM. And it’s not like I configured my virtual machine to use four gigs of memory and then wondered why I can’t run that and iTunes and iPhoto and iEverythingElse at the same time. So…
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HD is the new SD
What happened to the allure of the HDTV? I was thinking about this the other day, as I tried to shoehorn some more crap in my storage space and realized that the little 15″ analog CRT TV I have in there is probably never going to see service again and is just wasting a couple…
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The drive
Last week, I drove 40 miles each way to work, which is 400 miles a week, which is about 20,000 miles a year, or maybe a hair less when you count in the various holidays and days I break an arm or wreck a car or get sent to a trade show where, instead of…
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Obsession cycle is not a Calvin Klein-themed Harley
When I was maybe ten, I became obsessed with the Elephant Man. I think the movie came out around then, or maybe it was the play, and Mark Hamill was playing the role of Merrick in the Broadway version, and because I was so infatuated with Star Wars at the time, I absolutely had to…
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iOS 4.1, semi-portable computing
iOS 4.1 came out yesterday, and I updated my iPhone 3G, which has been plagued with slowdowns and randomness since I updated it to 4.0. It was almost so bad that I thought I was running a high-end Windows Mobile phone. (Okay, not that bad.) But it appears that the fixes in 4.1 alleviate any…
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The Deal
Okay, as I mentioned, a lot is up right now. One of the big things is that my work geography is about to get very complex and very simple. Let me try to explain. I was essentially offered my old job in New York, with a couple of differences. One is that I won’t work…