Sunday Morning Reading Material (First Sunday in September)
(Seen in Berkley: Arrest John Yoo)
This week: Someone took hostages at the Discovery Chanel Headquarters. The Chilean coal miners are still trapped down in the Chilean coal mine. Apple received much positive attention for rolling out a new, not quite as good, version of Apple TV. I met a sitting US Senator (she was standing).
Yesterday, I attended the first football game of 2010. My (UC Davis) Aggies lost to the (UC Berkeley) Bears by quite a bit. Obviously this means that we need to start engineering a new bread of football player at Davis. I expect the boys and girls in our GE department to get right on that.
Whirlyball sounds like tremendous fun. Also: life lessons!
Before I go to bed tonight, I promise I’ll have written a post for publication later this week. I literally don’t take lunch at my current job, I merely shove food in my mouth while I continue crunching numbers. I am enjoying what I do, but I wish I had a Time Tuner so I could still do other stuff I enjoy.
People at Cato don’t seem to have the problem where their time is taken up by learning new things: they don’t seem to learn new things
I mentioned earlier how apple released a new, shittier product? Turns out their flagship iTunes 10 also sucks. It’s almost like Apple is a terrible company more focused on the pretty than on the functionality.
So yeah, I want to flush Apple. It’s a good thing the The Toilet Paper Blog is here to tell me how to do it.
If this chart has any meaning, it’s that the US Senate sucks. A lot. It also helps show why I’m a Yellow Dog Democrat.
The always reliable (and regular) Rob Zacny has an interesting post where he talks about the gaming industry. I want to call your attention to the end part where he says “Seriously, though, working for free can be a disaster. Exchange of services for compensation is the foundation of professionalism.” If only we had laws about that. If only they were enforced. See the graph on the link above.
I linked to the previous installment of Shamus Young’s discussion of Mass Effect. This one is also good. Science Fiction is a wonderful lens through which to view our own existence.
Well, heck? Why shouldn’t serial fraudsters fall under 3 strikes provisions? Seems like the recidivism rate is going to be pretty high. Granted, three strikes laws look like a hugely illegal waste of tax payer money. But if we’ve got to do it, let’s do it right.
The fine person at Motivated Grammar explains to us why prescriptivisim needs to die. Preferably in a fire.
Gayle Force tells us that it doesn’t matter how other people use the word, or how many hours it’s been since you last ate: you’re not “starving”, you’re “hungry”.
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I fucking am in SO MUCH SUPPORT of that poster, man.
That is all for now.
I thought you might, lady. I did snap the pic thinking of you