July 16, 2008

Speaking Freely

"Can sound like a crop. You can pick you can cock you can sound like a hand on a door. Knock knock"

spoken through SpinVox

Speaking Freely

"It can sound like a ___. It can take, he can talk, he can sound like the hand on a door, knock knock."

spoken through SpinVox

Gog

Undu. Late, for work, got fired.
"You're fired, Undu!" shrieked his boss, Wo.
Man, she was psycho. But hot.
Then, Gog got hired.

May 19, 2008

Alone

I can't believe I may one day die without the ability to transmit to all humanity the utility of this:

cat a | grep -o "[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]:" | cut -d : -f 1 > x ;
sort x > xs ; cut -d , -f 1 b > y ; sort y > ys ;
diff xs ys > xydiff ;

(Let alone myself.)

May 15, 2008

Random poemia

Here are phrases which could fit in poems.

From the Greek word atomos.

The mythical bird reborn from its own ashes.

That is all.

March 01, 2008

Thing I can never find on the internet

the date of Grandmother Day

More precisely, I can't find the fête des grandmères in France, when I search on the internet. Some sites talk about it, but it is not clear if they are talking about the current year.

Despite this difficulty, nobody seems to have any trouble agreeing which day Grandmother Day occurs. If it's not on the internet, how do they know?

January 14, 2008

Lyrics to miscomprehend

Here is a line it would be good to mumble on a record, as it rolls nicely off the tongue, but its interpretation could vary widely among bewildered listeners.

Baby come truck like a wine store record record.

Baby come truck like a wine store record record.

January 11, 2008

Features of Opera that cannot be implemented in Firefox plugins

Many people fight about browsers. When Opera lovers list features that Firefox doesn't have, Firefox defenders usually say that the features can be implemented as plugins.

I'm just guessing, but I believe that the following features cannot be plugins. This list is therefore ultimate proof that Opera is a splendid internet navigator, and Firefox just a poor, sloppy follower.

  • a "paste-and-go" command

  • MDI: aka an interface with multiple windows, each of which can be resized and positioned within the browser window; you can place two windows side-by-side, using the first to track the downloads you've made in the second

  • a feature that starts downloading a clicked file while asking you what to do with the file, thus usually finishing downloads before you've even chosen where to put them

  • a feature that starts logging into a page before asking you if you want to save the password, thus allowing you to avert storing mis-typed user account names or passwords in the password cache

  • single-key shortcuts, activating features without having to hold Shift or CTRL

December 10, 2007

I'm recently hearing the term pushback often. This is a new word. The previous one was resistance.

Vikings gain ground on Romans.

The Earth be damned

Environmentalists could possibly become the new industrialists.

Environmentalists say, convincingly "Banish this toxic packaging from household products and comsumables!" They say "Hecatons of carbon, and teragacres of lost forest result from unnecessary paint and plastic on breakfast cereals packages, juice bottles and detergent cartons."

The greens appear logical. But if we do replace all unnecessary packaging by uniform, grey recycled cardboard and dull bulk bins, we will all fall into soviet-style depression everytime we visit the supermarket. The suicide rate will climb, and, no longer inspired to choose a product over its competitor, the consumer will cause the economy to plunge.

No! We need colour! We need unusual profiles and complementary fridge magnets! Keep painting those Corn Flakes boxes in bright colours! for the sake of humanity, and the Earth be damned.

Inforotica

Books

McDonald's

First Entry Bullshit

Yugop