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Thursday, June 27, 2002
I'd like to point out that 15-17 year old staffers are now making a minimum of more than twice what I did my first year, back in '89. Of course, back then movies were five bucks, Taco John's sold tacos for 29 cents on Tuesdays, and underagers drank for free at the lakeside resorts.
Just kidding about that last bit.
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Karla might be interested in reading this review of Minority Report to hear about the final line that got cut (spoilers ahoy for the rest of you).
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Drinking bird never stops drinking!
Or perhaps you're looking to purchase some happy and unhappy balls?
Sometimes you just have to go to the Times of India to hear important news. Best line: "Earl Hemminger, one of the four State Department workers who used their lunch hour to come up with Chip Gizmo's name..." Because we wouldn't want to think that they were wasting the country's time daydreaming about Beetle Bailey, right? Of course, I have to wonder if they signed one of those agreements where the U.S. owns any ideas they come up with while in government employ...
Given the horror stories I'm continuing to hear, I may be using the tutorials and advice on VeriSign Off soon.
"God Bless America Day" people, meet those who have worked to get the Pledge of Allegiance ruled unconstituional.
Me? I'm on this side. Believe whatever you like as strongly as you like, just don't prosetlytize. Especially for things whose core tenet is belief over proof, anytime you impune upon others' chance to believe (again, in a way that doesn't impact others) whichever crazy thing they want, well, you'll never see the bottom of that barrel of trouble.
Why do I read Metafilter every day? Because if I didn't I might have missed that Men Without Hats is hiring. And I also would have never seen these amazing puzzle boxes.
Although "30 Days to a More Accessible Weblog" is a great article, I think that for the most part it will fall on deaf ears. Why? Mainly because the whole reason weblogs have become popular is because tools like Blogger and Moveable Type have finally made regular page updating easy for AOL-level web users. These are not the type of people who will be going through their source code to root out the javascript tags. Heck, I could and I'm probably not going to; maybe some day when I have more time. Sorry, colorblind Opera users.
Tuesday, June 25, 2002
I've gotten a few emails wondering if my lack of posts means that I had a bad weekend. Far from it. The weekend--from seeing family and friends to the reunion itself--was a lot of fun. So much so that if I started writing, it would take longer than I happen to have this week. And if I just used pictures, well, I took 300 of those, too. No time to sort and format those either. Sorry. You'll just have to take my word for it: good time was had.
Of course, that doesn't mean I won't prattle on about it another time.
One of the weirdest things about going back to your hometown is you recognize the names on all the tombstones...
Monday, June 24, 2002
"I save my potboilers for the Indiana Jones series." (NYT link)
Gee thanks, Mr. Spielberg. Really looking forward to Indy 4 now. But I have to admit that Minority Report was pretty darn good.
I have returned. Posting will resume in 3...2...
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