Bikeaversary 01

I'm surprised the last main entry before this one is a note about Steve Jobs’ death. Weird. Much time has passed since and I am finally beginning to feel I understand some of the contours of this new life...

Posted by mistersquid on March 2, 2013 7:19 AM

Rollback Safari 5.1 on Mac OS X

For the last month I’ve been working on a script to allow me to import animated GIFs into Yojimbo, which script incorporates a few of the concepts I used for Add Bookmark to Yojimbo and Yojimbo Bookmark Collection From...

Posted by mistersquid on August 15, 2011 7:56 AM

Arab Spring Arrives Late in Israel

Source: Israelis march for lower living costsSource: 250,000 Protest Cost of Living in Israel “We know that we cannot achieve everything,” Itzik Shmuly, the chairman of the National Union of Students, acknowledged from the podium in Tel Aviv. “But...

Posted by mistersquid on August 8, 2011 7:37 AM

Correction on the Usefuless of Torture

I recently overheard someone explaining that intelligence acquired by means of torture was crucial in determining the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, which determination led to bin Laden’s death by US armed forces. This lie must be exposed as...

Posted by mistersquid on May 5, 2011 3:33 PM

Wanna Grab Lunch?

Joel Spolsky»no relation« recently wrote up some of his thoughts about lunching with coworkers. Where and with whom we eat lunch is a much bigger deal than most people care to admit. Obviously, psychologists will tell us, obviously it...

Posted by mistersquid on May 3, 2011 1:13 PM

Just Folks

My coffee supply was running low this morning, so I pulled on some jeans and pod-personed the two blocks uphill to my local grocery of predatory prices, Cala Foods»A 50-count bottle of Advil is priced at nearly $9.«. I’d...

Posted by mistersquid on April 27, 2011 6:43 AM

Notes About Networks

This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs, a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coining of the term. Where Do Cyborgs Come From? The term cyborg is as evocative and cuts as elusive a figure now...

Posted by mistersquid on September 29, 2010 9:09 AM

Multiblog Bug Fix

What follows is incorrect and remains for archival reasons only. There is a corrected version. A few days or weeks or hours after restructuring the main page for this blog, I noticed that the layout for blog entries that...

Posted by mistersquid on May 24, 2010 10:33 AM

Lunchtime Shell Game on 38 Geary

On Thursday, 13 May, a few of the tech team»and HR« at my work took cabs to Dong Baek, located in the Tenderloin’s northeastern section.1 John Jonathon Leslie Jeffrey Sung Jack Lunch was great, better than I expected.2 I...

Posted by mistersquid on May 21, 2010 8:15 AM

Obama Administration Warns About Using Information Devices Which Have Produced the Most Widely Distributed Publishing Platform in Human History

I really want this thing to work out with President Obama. He’s smart. He’s a constitutaional scholar. His adminstration has taken steps to advance the welfare of US citizens and the welfare of people worldwide. So I don’t get...

Posted by mistersquid on May 11, 2010 10:33 AM

Coda de Cinco

I loved celebrating Cinco de Mayo when before leaving California for the University of Virginia in Fall 1993. Because I was unaware of the historical significance of the holiday, Cinco de Mayo was a low-pressure excuse to have a...

Posted by mistersquid on May 6, 2010 7:43 AM

Instant Gratification: Saving Web Bookmarks Everywhere Using Yojimbo, AppleScript, and MobileMe

I’ve been working with Save PDF to Yojimbo and Yojimbo Collection From Front Window for just a little over a month and I’ve experienced some weird glitches. The most difficult of these glitches seems to happen when I have...

Posted by mistersquid on May 4, 2010 11:09 PM