When being stupid is smart
October 9, 2009
You don’t suppose giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize will polarize America, do you?
I thought it was supposed to be a Peace prize.
I guess you can’t blame controversy. It’s going to happen among contentious people, whatever the spark. Still, irony like this is too good to waste
October 8, 2009
It’s sad. They didn’t take their daughter to the doctor, let her die… because they thought it would be unfaithful to God.
The judge told the Neumanns this would give them time to “think about Kara and what God wants you to learn from this”.
He added that they were “very good people, raising their family, who [...]
October 6, 2009
I have a friend.
Unfortunately, my friend is a boor. I don’t like saying it, and I wish there was a nicer word that conveyed the same meaning.
However, the truth is, the meaning is not very nice, and so the word that conveys it is not very nice. My friend actually *is* a boor. He has [...]
October 5, 2009
This works in Firefox and in IE8 but I’m still debugging IE7. Sorry, folks.
I’d like to unpack a game that we often play.
It’s called the “Bad Person” game.
Fundamentalist Christians are particularly fond of it, I’m sorry to say.
It’s very simple. You have to make it through life without being bad.
There’s even an electronic version of [...]
October 2, 2009
OCR for the common man. Thank you Google.
There are free online OCR services; there are companies that sell the software. I don’t think it will be too long before it becomes bundled standard with an operating system and people will just expect it as part of something a computer does.
But having an open project is [...]
How can they responsibly say this?
No, wait. Shoot the copywriter, because I’m sure the researcher said something responsible, but then the copywriter threw it all away for a catchy title.
But saying,
“Half of babies ‘will live to 100′”
just doesn’t help anyone.
I’m pretty sure there are significant social pressures building and I wouldn’t at all be surprised [...]
October 1, 2009
Today I put the lining back in my coat.
Yesterday wasn’t fun, but today was the first day this fall that I could see my breath. That still doesn’t feel right to me.
I remember what winter is like, but summer and winter make the world two different places. A bus stop at thirty below with ice [...]