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I'm really enjoying all these complainy emails I've been writing lately. Hi, Irritatingly, if I'd been on a different flight, I could have watched Ratatouille or Stardust. Update! I wrote the same email to American Airlines (with whom I also flew), and they tried to respond. Sadly, the copy-pasted form-email that they sent me doesn't actually address my complaint. It seems as though they don't have a pre-written response for "sorry that movie sucked," so they decided to go with the closest thing, "sorry that movie had a lot of swears." Thank you for taking the time to share your comments with us regarding the movie shown on your flight from San Francisco to Chicago O'Hare on December 22.
December 30, 2007 10:39 PM |
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Some kid made a lousy animation for his final project, and posted it on YouTube. Now the Thing To Do is to make tribute videos.
December 29, 2007 5:42 PM |
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December 25, 2007 8:33 AM |
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Every one of the NY Times' "Writers on Writing" series is worth reading, and none is more worthy than Elmore Leonard's.
December 24, 2007 1:52 PM |
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A few months ago, I switched from Doteasy to Dreamhost, and I must say, I'm very pleased that I did. I had a little MySQL issue yesterday and not only did they respond quickly, and not only did they apologize very very sweetly, but they also offered the most soothing tech support I've ever received: "you don't need to worry about this anymore," they wrote, and I felt all warm and safe like someone had just given me an oversized teddy bear. Yay.
December 21, 2007 9:29 PM |
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Day Two of Javascript Class. Here's what I learned to do. Unfortunately, it wasn't part of the class. We've spent hours talking about how to do popups, popunders, and iframes, so I've gone off-book and have just been fooling around on my own. SIgh.
December 20, 2007 2:17 PM |
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I had a disorienting experience this afternoon -- I needed to wash my hands after eating some fries, so I stuck them under a faucet and waited for the water to turn on. All of the faucets at work have proximity sensors and dispense water as soon as you get close enough, but today I'm offsite at a slightly less futuristic building where faucets actually have handles. I felt like Scotty, sitting down at a computer and purring "hello, computer" to no avail.
December 20, 2007 1:32 PM |
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December 19, 2007 3:53 PM |
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Why yes, now that you mention it, I do like that new "Bunnytown" show on the Disney channel.
December 18, 2007 9:26 PM |
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This video, made by my awesome friend Cindy back in college, features a very special guest star.
December 14, 2007 7:56 PM |
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I really don't want this blog to turn exclusively into a list of Muni complaints. I'm sorry to keep submitting complaints about the same problem, but it just isn't going away. I ride the 43 twice every day, and I encounter bunching and long gaps almost every single day. It's clearly not an isolated problem; it's not a coincidence that I always encounter the same problem nearly every day, and it's not an accident that it's continuing to happen.
December 14, 2007 4:36 PM |
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There's an article today in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution about how "real" journalism need to be "protected" from "risky" citizen-journalism. In it, the author -- David, Hazinski, the head (for now) of broadcast news at the University of Georgia -- misspells "principles." Twice. ...Citizen reports can be a valuable addition to news and information flow with some protections. ...There are commonly accepted ethical principals -- two source confirmation of controversial information or the balanced reporting of both sides of a story, for example, but adhering to the principals is voluntary... To this day, I remember how, in third grade, I read a Ramona Quimby book in which she learns that the man who runs the school is the "principal" with a "pal" on the end because he is your pal.
December 14, 2007 10:05 AM |
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Here's the problem: I really like using iCal to create schedules. It's so easy to use, and so pretty and nice, and so not Outlook. But. When you print a calendar -- as I frequently must, to post in classrooms -- all of the all-day events with long titles get chopped into pieces. Instead of scrolling the text onto the next line, it just cuts out the middle. Here's what that looks like:
What do I do about this?
December 14, 2007 6:32 AM |
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Yet another complaint to Muni. Still no response on any of the others. Hi,
December 12, 2007 4:10 PM |
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This store Plastica is selling a Mozartkugel, a little round wooden ball with a big old-fashioned key that you turn to produce a few chimes from a music box inside. It's a very charming little design. (Though the choice of song from The Marriage of Figaro is a bit obscure.)
December 11, 2007 12:27 PM |
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I was a little down last week, feeling like I wasn't doing a very good job of guiding a project of which I really wanted to be in tight control. I wrote a glum-ish email to James about it, and he responded, "one day you will rule the world." I mention this because some people are under the impression that he is only mean, whereas the truth is that sometimes, infrequently, every now and then, he is actually a little bit nice.
December 10, 2007 12:23 PM |
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Hey another Muni complaint! That's great! Despite repeated complaints, drivers on the 43 route are continuing to double-up on their runs. On Saturday, December 8, I observed vehicle 8040 on run 799, with vehicle 8227 on run 763 immediately behind it.
December 10, 2007 11:28 AM |
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There's an article in the Times about fashion photography. The article itself is a lot of blah blah blah, but I do like this photo:
December 9, 2007 4:50 PM |
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It's been a charming last few days in which I've been very pleased to work at the place where I work. Friday saw the culmination of our Cinematic Titanic planning (I arranged the catering and RSVPs): many of the original folks from MST3K visited work to make fun of "Brain of Blood," which was appropriately awful and funny. I had one weird interaction during the post-show reception. It involved taints, and left me with more questions than it answered. About a year ago, we were watching America's Funniest Home Videos, for which Trace Beaulieu writes. And during a clip in which a child fell forward on a bike, the voiceover giggled, "that bike is about to get TAINTED!" I was convinced that it was a taint joke, but James insisted otherwise, saying that I always think EVERYTHING is about taints. Finally, on Friday, I had an opportunity to ask Trace the truth -- and I was vindicated. It WAS a taint joke. "We have one writer who tries to get at least one in per episode," he said. And then we stood there in a sort of awkward pause, having just used the word "taint" several times. "So, do you know about the whole Conan O'Brien taint thing from Saturday Night Live?" he finally asked. "NO," I exclaimed. But then, J. Elvis Weinstein ran in to exclaim that Lucasfilm had just opened the schwag closet, and was permitting the Cinematic Titanic people to take home as many Star Wars t-shirts as they could carry. And they all rushed off, leaving me and the untold story behind. This was a hell of a place to end the conversation. Naturally, I assumed that Conan O'Brien accidentally showed his netherbits on live TV, or maybe had a birthmark there in the shape of Lorne Michaels. Google comes to the rescue, though, with a transcript that explains everything. But I kind of wish I hadn't found an explanation, and led the rest of my life thinking there was something outrageous about Conan O'Brien's taint. Maybe I still can. Anyway, here's a fun video of Conan riffing at Bill Gates when a software demo goes predictably awry.
December 9, 2007 1:27 PM |
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Ha ha ha! Somebody at Washington Mutual misspelled something! HA HA HA HA HA!!!
December 6, 2007 8:07 PM |
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Why do I bother? Hello,
December 6, 2007 4:08 PM |
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So, I've been trying out this new thing, iwantsandy.com, which is supposed to be like an intelligent robot assistant. A robo-gal. But I'm not too impressed with it so far. On one hand, it's OK about understanding your requests -- "Sandy, remind me to grab my checkbook tonight at 10pm" -- but not so great about follow-through. That reminder about my checkbook arrived 13 hours late, for example. And then when I mailed the help system about it, the emails bounced back as undeliverable. Sigh. Better luck next time, Sandy.
December 4, 2007 11:53 AM |
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I was doing some Xmas shopping and stumbled across this horrifying artifact. Allegedly, it's an angel, stretching a banner that says "Rejoice." But I dare you to see anything other than a two-tailed mermaid, spreading her lower bits to reveal an obscenely placed "O." Happy holidays!
December 1, 2007 12:31 PM |
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