Happy Mother’s Day!

Happy Mother's Day, Mom! I love you....

Posted by mistersquid on May 12, 2013 9:21 AM

The Boston in Me

The horrible events at this year’s Boston Marathon have put me in a melancholy mood, and I turned to MetaFilter to make better sense of the senseless tragedy. After reading the thousand-or-so comments that came before, I said (in...

Posted by mistersquid on April 15, 2013 10:05 PM

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

Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

one last time…...

Posted by mistersquid on October 5, 2011 5:46 PM

Possible “item” Names

knot nap nut nub not loop stitch top plateau organ quark quirk quip quiff pill part pip pulp pop...

Posted by mistersquid on September 1, 2011 10:11 PM

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

Does the Internet Make Sexism Autopoietic?

This comic by Gabby Schulz forecasts a recent dustup over a presentation by Rebecca Watson at the 2011 World Atheist Convention in Dublin. Basically, Watson explains she doesn’t like it when anonymous men hit her up for sex at...

Posted by mistersquid on July 26, 2011 8:48 AM

Alien Dreams

Photo by Andrew Jeffrey Wright.»via« (show embarrassed rationale) It wasn’t supposed to be this way. I’ve been following several Tumblogs for the past couple of months or so. Some of these Tumblogs are curated by teenagers, so they tend to...

Posted by mistersquid on May 17, 2011 7:50 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