Archive for November, 2007
Thursday, November 29th, 2007
Beerwatch
A quick bit of beer-tasting silliness, hopefully soon to be joined by some things-to-see-in-Victoria posting: Anything by Unibroue is still great. For some reason, I have drunk both of the chocolate-flavored beers the LDB stocks. The made-in-BC Phillips Double Chocolate Porter is very tasty. But from the UK, the Young’s Double Chocolate Stout is even […]
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
The Curious semi-disappearance of Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey
In late 2006, reasonably well-known blogger Jacqueline Passey (often known by her four-barreled name, as seen in the title), wrote a post about her dating criteria, more or less. I shall not revisit the ridiculous bunfight that set off, though blog commentary on that post continues to be the main thing that comes up when […]
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
So, how good are the New England Patriots, anyways?
Very, very good. I know, you don’t understand that link. Even I barely understand it. Okay, I don’t understand it at all. But, I do understand this: in lots and lots of normal team sports (not cricket; I totally don’t understand the scoring system(s)), net points is an excellent proxy for team performance. That is, […]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Nerdiness at Criticality
Item: Michael “Rands” Lopp writes a resonant description of nerd behaviour. Item: Wyn describes a new sitcom featuring nerds which may not suck. I feel the need to point out here that “nerd-human relationships” is a nice coinage based on my hackneyed self-description as a person working in the field of “nerd-human relations.” TLO and […]
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
It’s the weekend
I’m relaxing.
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Monopolized, and loving it!
Per this response to something I didn’t read (which I learned about at Daring Fireball, I thought I’d comment. Because I am smart and all those full-time pundits are not! Arrogance is fun! At the risk of getting pedantic, the iTunes Music Store (whoops, now it’s just the iTunes Store) has de facto “exclusive control” […]
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Thursday, November 1st, 2007
Punish the Cheap
Earlier this week, I bought a refurbished MacBook (right in time for Apple to update their offerings, so there you go). Have you ever seen a photo of Apple’s product packaging? Of course you have. It’s so pretty nobody can resist. Beautiful! Too bad I didn’t get to keep this one. You could almost use […]