Random Musings
I hope they finally end this. I hate changing clocks twice a year — it should be a thing of the past. What do you think?
Replying to It's Independence Day, Not 'the Fourth of July'
I read an article about a former Army ROTC cadet whose sergeant used to quiz the squad on American history. When someone answered a question by calling the July holiday "the Fourth of July" instead of "Independence Day," the sergeant made …
Jim Nielsen's post about blogging landed right after I wrote about dickovers, and it's basically why I bothered writing that post at all.
have a willingness to state something that seems obvious to you.
— Jim Nielsen
Yes. This.
They are so cool.
Love these koi in Graffiti Alley.
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Twenty years ago I watched The Fifth Element, and there's a taxi scene I never forgot. Korben Dallas flies his cab through the city with an autopilot mode built right into the dashboard, but the second things go wrong, he flips it off and takes the wheel back himself. Twenty years later we still …
John Gruber over at Daring Fireball recently gave a name to something we've all been quietly furious about for years: the dickover. It's that full-screen curtain that drops the second you land on an article, demanding you subscribe to a newsletter, accept seventeen kinds of cookies, or download an …
Photo by Dadi Prayoga on Unsplash I'm way behind on email. Thousands of them. I just skim until something catches my eye — and most of it doesn't. But one showed up recently that made me stop: Blu-ray turned 20 this year.
And my first thought wasn't "happy birthday." It was: when did I last …
Indeed, it is true.
The Boston Consulting Group Isn’t Wrong
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There is a website called WKNA 49 that looks exactly like a local West Virginia TV news station. It has a weather ticker, a logo, a newsroom email, even a corrections policy. It is also completely fake.
Over the past few weeks, the site published multiple stories claiming both JD Vance and Donald …
Today's Date
6-26-26
Palindrome Day
← same both ways →
Read it backward. Same thing. I find this unreasonably satisfying.
Palindrome dates depend entirely on how you write the date. In the U.S. short format (M-DD-YY), today works perfectly. In the full eight-digit MM-DD-YYYY format? Not so much. …