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Hacking vs. Programming
The hackers get a lot of attention these days. These are the basketball players who make the slam dunk that makes it to the highlight reel. But basketball games are won by teams of players executing on...
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Dear parents at the next table…
Dear Parents at the Next Table at Freebirds last night: This is a restaurant, not track and field. Your child needs to sit in their chair, not run laps around the place. And no, telling your child “You...
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Oh the pain
I love Apple. You know that. Without Apple, I’m not sure what sort of life and career path I would have taken. But… I’ve held off on upgrading to Lion (Mac OS X 10.7) and Xcode 4 for numerous reasons....
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The VoIP problem
In recounting my AT&T problems, folks have suggested I go with VoIP – Voice Over IP, basically telephone over the Internet (instead of your phone lines). This is services like Vonage, MagicJack,...
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Informational malnutrition, and the death of Truth
The George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin situation in Florida. I’ve written numerous articles voicing my thoughts on the situation, but I’ve published none of them because nothing quite captured how I...
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I don’t understand racism
I don’t understand racism, I never understood it. I can’t understand the fact you could hate somebody from half a mile away and never even speak to them and hate them. That’s fucking so dumb. There are...
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Dear world….
Please stop with this “zombie” thing. It’s long played out. It’s tired. Tho I guess congratulations to Hornady for making a lot of money by being in the right place at the right time with the right...
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My brain hurts
TLG posts about yet another SERPA ban. And reading all the comments defending the SERPA make my brain hurt. Because all the problems are due to poor training and lack of practice, and all we need is...
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on Aurora
A number of people have asked me for my thoughts on the events at the Aurora, CO movie theater. They figured, given my lot in life, that I’d have something say… and some rightly guessed that my silence...
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Y U So Hateful?
I’m doing my morning perusal of websites and headlines. All I see is hate and anger. You pick the topic. It doesn’t matter. Obama, Romney, homosexuals (Boy Scouts of America, Chick-Fil-A, Muppets,...
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The unwritten rules of Halloween
Putting on my Old Man hat for a moment…. Taking two-thirds of Kiddos around for Trick-or-Treating last night and gee… have manners totally died? Granted, it wasn’t across the board, but I did see lots...
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on rudeness
I need to vent. I normally don’t post other things on Sundays, but I had to get this off my chest. Today Youngest had his first piano recital. He did just fine, and I’m more proud of him for learning...
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I wept
I wept (literally) on my drive to work yesterday. I was listening to Bing Crosby & David Bowie’s beautiful duet “Peace On Earth / Little Drummer Boy “ Like you, the large events of the past week...
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Bullshit
President Obama is starting to talk about his gun control measures: The Biden task force has “presented me now with a list of sensible, common-sense steps that can be taken to make sure that the kinds...
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Hooray for Government – keeping the homeless fed and safe
Louisiana’s State Health Department forced a homeless shelter to destroy $8,000 worth of deer meat because it was donated from a hunter organization. [...] “We didn’t find anything wrong with it,” Rev....
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How to lose friends and alienate people
So long as you deny our humanity, so long as you malign our dignity, intelligence and wisdom, so long as you seek to shade us under a cloud of evil that we do not partake in or support, so long as you...
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This is why we can’t have discussions
Marc MacYoung posted the following on Facebook: Conflict and violence are very human behaviors. They serve a very important survival and social purpose. Having said that we’ve kind of put ourselves...
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Unintended consequences
In March 2013, the City of Austin instituted a “bag ban”. No “single-use” plastic bags for you! Of course, there are some that took the mantra of “reduce, reuse, recycle” quite to heart. For example,...
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See the positive, understand the gain
I do not live my life in a typical way. Of course, what is “typical”, but here it tends to mean that those around me whose lives intersect with mine in some meaningful way… my life doesn’t follow their...
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Stop being a dick. You’re not helping.
So push came to shove and Starbucks went public with a stance on guns in their stores. I can’t say I blame them. They got pulled into and caught in the middle of something they didn’t ask to be a part...
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Children learn from our example
“The Angry Coach” at EliteFTS was writing A Sad Commentary on the State of Youth Sports. As I read it, it actually felt like a sad commentary on today’s youth and parenting in general. He was observing...
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Gee thanx, Apple
Since I was forced onto Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) a couple weeks ago well… it’s more or less been fine. I like how more apps are taking advantage of native notifications (sorry, Growl), and how with...
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Lessons from jaywalking
So there’s been this hoopla going on about a woman arrested in Austin for jaywalking. When I first saw the story it seemed sufficiently weird from either side, so I figured there had to be more to the...
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How to make progress
We will make better progress if we start from where we agree and work with open minds and open hearts, than to start from where we disagree and drive the wedge even further. Filed under: crime,...
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Sigh
What really bothers me is when outrage is driven by ignorance. The mode of today: get angry first, get information and facts… maybe later. Filed under: Life, Me, Philosophy, Politics, Venting Tagged:...
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