09.11.04
Seniors Rule
“This is a collection of actual senior photos that I found on various senior photography gallery websites.”
Because… Seniors Rule!
09.10.04
Forwarding Address: Teleport
Posted as a comment on a Forwarding Address: OS X post regarding teleport.
My use case:
My B&WG3 is running various apps all the time for me, but my primary Mac is an iBook. When I get home, I put the iBook on my desk shelf, next to my G3’s monitor and plug in the power cord.
[Unfortunate part] I open up the teleport.plist file in BBEdit, delete the contents and save the file. I open up System Preferences, load up the teleport pane, and toggle the “Activate Teleport” checkbox twice: Once to off and then back to on. Now my iBook shows up in the screen setup area and I drag it into place and close System Preferences. [/Unfortunate Part]
I then have a full size (ADB Extended Keyboard II) and wireless mouse attached to my iBook without abusing my USB ports each night. It’s almost like having BlueTooth keyboard/mouse pieces, except I can switch back and forth to my G3 so easily.
[Unfortunate Part]…As long as I remember to avoid the right-hand shift key which doesn’t work, though the left shift works just fine.[/Unfortunate Part]
I would love to be able to skip the plist deletion/System Pref reset and the shift key issue, but I’ll work with it because it makes my life that much easier.
09.08.04
A Recent Excerpt
RO: amy and I went to the timbers/sounders game in seattle yesterday.
KB: how was it!?!!
RO: that was a heartbreaker
RO: timbers lost in ot
KB: ahh.
KB: I hear that jake has been yellowflagged all season.
RO: hmmm. not that i know of.
RO: I think yesterday was the *first* one all season…
KB: oh.
KB: hmm.
RO: yeah the sounders were playing really nasty.
RO: you know it’s bad when the refs walk onto the pitch carrying Sounders duffel bags
KB: oooh.
RO: so that was the end of the timbers season
KB: so sad.
KB: now what?
RO: we were supposed to have homefield advantage, but the beavers kick us out of PGE park.
RO: I guess wait for next year and root for the Whitecaps to defeat seattle in the playoffs this week.
09.03.04
There is no middle ground
I’ve come to the conclusion that the amount of sheer venom in this year’s presidential race comes from simple mathematics that both parties have already understood.
Here’s the size of the undecided voters: 2% of the US population, about 4 million voters.
“Gallup’s last three polls say that as few as 2 percent of the electorate is undecided” – Bloomberg
Here’s the percentage of voters who didn’t participate in the few couple of presidential elections: 48% of the US population., about 99 million voters.
“Eligible voters who voted – 1992: 55.1% – 1996: 49.0% – 2000: 51.3%” – Infoplease
Where would you put your energy? Convincing 4 million to vote your way, or energizing half of the 99 million to simply vote?
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08.30.04
What is Fair Use?
I got it! I got it! I finally got my first one!
Because of the content on this page: Order Somewhere Chaos + karmann-ghia + vic I got my own…
Trademark Infringement Notification!
Woooooooooooooo-hoooooooooooooooo!
No one less than Volkswagen AG of Wolfsburg Germany found that my world-renowned site was an affront to their right to not have to spend money on lawyers.
If I may quote:
Dear Mr. Olson,
we have discovered that under the internet-address: “www.ordersomewherechaos.com” a blank form titled with “Fahrzeug-Identitäts-Urkunde der Stiftung AutoMuseum Volkswagen” can be found. Right beside this title the trademark “VW in circle” is set. There has been no authorization in what way soever between you and the Volkswagen AG to behave in the just described manner.
[…]
By delivering such a blank form via the internet people may get mixed up concerning the origin of this formular. In addition to this the trademark “VW in circle” itself will be diluted. Last but not least the good reputation that consumers associate with this trademark will be dwarfed.”
I realize this is easy to pick on, and I certainly couldn’t write anything coherent in German, but the letter is so funny.
More to the point, it seems odd that having a copy of a form that will be sent out to people would be a trademark issue. Since I’m reporting what was delivered to a member of my ‘audience’, this is fully under US Fair Use laws.
I mean, I’ll take it off, no problem for me, but really, this seems odd and funny.
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08.27.04
Great Hackers
Wow, what a great read about programmers great hackers and how to find and keep them. Paul Graham on Great Hackers.
This same guy wrote an incredible article on Lisp that I end up re-reading every couple of years.
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08.25.04
OregonLive.com: Odd Blog
Among other items in the Oregonian’s Odd Blog is this item on Grants Pass’ own Crispy Caveman, which it sounds like has been repaired and replaced already. Those silly cavemen…
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08.24.04
New overtime rules are mostly bad news for employees
Crap. From a crappy administration.
USATODAY.com – New overtime rules are mostly bad news for employees
“Feel free to stay poor! Good bye middle class! See ya suckers!”
[Via Bo]
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08.23.04
State Songs
I’m listening to South Carolina from They Might Be Giant’s John Linnell album State Songs and really enjoying it. The entire album is hit and miss but this, Utah and a few other are really worth the price of admission.
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08.22.04
The State of the Onion 8
From Larry Wall’s The State of the Onion 8:
“One of the aspects of my Asperger personality is that I don’t initiate things like that. I have impaired executive function, in modern terminology. I almost never initiate telephone calls. I almost never initiate anything, in fact. Funny, considering Perl, but nevertheless true.
“The most telling example of that is when Deja first put up all the old Usenet news articles for browsing. My good friend Randal Schwartz went in and discovered that of the hundreds of articles I’d posted over the years, only one article was not a follow-up to some else’s article. I don’t initiate. I have no initiative. I guess that makes me lazy. Oh, well”
To everyone who has ever wondered why I never call, here’s part of the answer I think. I’ll need to read up on this “Asperger” thing some more.