If you want to know the true story about John Brown‘s attempted raid on the Harper’s Ferry Armoury, don’t watch Santa Fe Trail. If you want to know the details of Jeb Stuart‘s career and life before he became a … Continue reading
My neighborhood dollar store sells dvds. For how much? $1. (That’s not a very interesting question, is it?) What kind of dvds? (More interesting) Old western movies and comedies. (Yet more interesting) Not the classics we know and love, but … Continue reading
They were drunk. The end result was a two hour delay of the flight. The BBC interrupts my regularly scheduled surfing for this??? Poor behaviour by the intoxiated (quick, stop the presses) and a two hour delay on an airplane … Continue reading
Unless being stupid involves getting caught. One of the greatest achievements of the internet is bringing all the stupid people together. Usually we idiots spend our lives being mocked, being told to shut up and being forced to stand in … Continue reading
H4x0r j0r b0x3n!! Or, they post on their blogs about bored young men. I said previously that bored young men without jobs to distract them are a problem. The default actions that bored young men take to distract themselves are … Continue reading
I’ve hinted at this before, that bored young men cause trouble. Anyone who has ever reared or been a boy can probably understand this. And so it seems that China has a problem. China probably has many problems, but a … Continue reading
…because of this. It certainly sounds like a movie plot: hiring an Mexican hit-man over the internet. But there’s a dark and sinister truth at play here… If you die at the hands an internet Mexican hit-man, you die for … Continue reading
There’s a reason that the tagline for this blog is, “When being stupid is smart.” Consider the ill received KDE 4.0 destkop. Arguably the devs did the right thing. They’ve been working hard on the Linux desktop for years and … Continue reading
This is a winner. Gardening: Gives you food to eat Gives you hard work to do Makes you feel good about yourself Provides aesthetically pleasing foliage On a side note, it’s worth that anywhere that young men are unemployed or … Continue reading
Following up, another example of good engineering that we can do, but that we don’t do (or didn’t do). There are always too many things that can be optimized against; so the answer is just to design against those things … Continue reading