Logical Disconnect · notebooks

Good Deed

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 05:42:11 -0400

I did my good deed for the year. I primarily saved some big faceless credit card company some money, but I did save some poor schlub some hassle, and I have learned from a wise man, the quest to be hassle-free is divine. Well I was out on my habitual morning walk. After having fended of a psudo-attack from a stupid dog, I spotted a Discover card on the ground. I scooped it up, and when I got home called Discover and told them I found someone else’s card. The Discover employee was not quite flabergasted, but he was surprised. So I destroyed the card and Discover will be contacting their cardholder.

You’re welcome Mr. Slacum.

Gladly pay you Tuesday ..

Fri, 20 May 2005 03:29:20 -0400

Anyone want to spot me around 250k ?

Trenton Industry?

Wed, 18 May 2005 06:34:10 -0400

Anyone who travels route 1 into Jersey, has been welcomed for years by the boastful sign that says “Trenton Makes The World Takes”

Apparently Trenton has given up on the making, and the taking has reached the point of taking the sign. I guess they can change their motto to “we get flooded often.”

society preferes shallow over deep

Tue, 17 May 2005 10:26:54 -0400

It has long been an article of our folklore that too much knowledge or skill, or especially consummate expertise, is a bad thing. It dehumanizes those who achieve it, and makes difficult their commerce with just plain folks, in whom good old common sense has not been obliterated by mere book learning or fancy notions. This popular delusion flourishes now more than ever, for we are all infected with it in the schools, where educationists have elevated it from folklore to Article of Belief. It enhances their self-esteem and lightens their labors by providing theoretical justification for deciding that appreciation, or even simple awareness, is more to be prized than knowledge, and relating (to self and others), more than skill, in which minimum competence will be quite enough.

– The Underground Grammarian

I wonder if this observation is generally true. And what cultures it applies to.

Productivity Soars

Mon, 16 May 2005 07:21:01 -0400

This just in: With my brother’s away message archive more or less offline while he resettles himself to the east coast there are reports of rampant productivity throughout the area. One person said, “It’s like, I realized, I don’t have some website to check every 15 minutes for some wild observation or witty reaction to something that doesn’t really effect me.” We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

obvious files

Thu, 12 May 2005 04:36:00 -0400

jackhammers are loud.

Note, May 10, 2005

Tue, 10 May 2005 20:14:57 -0400

Diet Coke with Splenda is far superior to regular Diet Coke, at least for a non diet coke drinker like me. If you already like that bitter after taste then you won’t like splenda diet coke, cause it ain’t there.

ipodless productivity

Tue, 10 May 2005 02:46:47 -0400

how to focus without my ipod? And I don’t seem able to get my classical stream.

REAL ID

Mon, 09 May 2005 06:33:33 -0400

A sad state of affairs. Schneier on Security: REAL ID “When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away….” – Robert Heinlen (The Notebooks of Lazarus Long)

Jeremiah was a bullfrog

Mon, 09 May 2005 05:05:02 -0400

Was a good friend of mineI never understood a single word he said But I helped him a-drink his wine And he always had some mighty fine wine

- 3 Dog Night

Time Zone

Wed, 04 May 2005 04:16:51 -0400

I noticed my times are all screwy on WP since I sprung forward so I installed a Time Zone Plugin so I don’t have to think about it. Update: Forget it. It seems to conflict with the version of Spam-Karma2 I have installed. And spam karma is more important.

Update 2 (The revenge): Looks like its a bug in WP that hoses the interaction. According to this

Braindead rewards

Tue, 03 May 2005 11:40:34 -0400

So many have signed up for a Barnes&Noble big brother 10% off card where you pay them $10 and you get 10% off of everything for a year. Waldenbooks/Borders used to have one also, and I guess I signed up for it once because I received a rewards card in the mail claiming they are discontinuing their old program and to rergister on their site and use the one they sent me, because now they don’t charge you $10 a year, it is FREE! Well I looked into these so called rewards. It’s a farce, it is overly complicated, and the odds of me saving any money are slim. The odds of them collecting valuable marketing information on me are high. The main reward is a “Personal Shopping Day” which requires me to spend $50 in one calendar month, and then within 30 days of that I can get 10% off of almost everything in their store, for one day.

Junk. I hope this blows up in their face, because it is way to complicated and provides me virtually no benefit over competing big brother member programs.

win vs lin

Tue, 03 May 2005 04:34:21 -0400

A fundamental difference in thought. Search for “bash script” and the first result is a guide on how bash scripting works and how to write your own. Search for “batch script” and you get a collection of canned scripts.

snack walking

Mon, 02 May 2005 07:53:46 -0400

Sometimes I want a snack, and rather than stopping myself I try and earn it, so I try and find a store that is in a reasonable walking distance and walk there for it. Of course I like walking too so this all ties together. Anyway I found a place to walk to that is about a 10 minute walk from my current place of employment En Route at the Princeton Junction train station. It would be about a 20 minute walk if I didn’t know about a short cut through the swamp behind my office building.

Plus I got to see a bunch of cabbies standing around at the station telling jokes in some other language.

Stays Crunchy

Mon, 02 May 2005 05:28:32 -0400

Contrary to popular assumption CoolCuts BugsBunny carrot sticks are crunchy.

webapp popups

Fri, 29 Apr 2005 11:39:04 -0400

everything about small popup windows is bad. people can only work on one thing at a time. The popup indicates I may want to work on something different in the main screen of the webapp.

Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)

Fri, 29 Apr 2005 05:05:01 -0400

I have heard that the Microsoft antispyware works well. and it is free. So if you are running windows hit this up: Windows AntiSpyware (Beta)

Life Rule #1: concise responses

Fri, 29 Apr 2005 04:19:54 -0400

Don’t waste your time on a long well crafted argument when a simple “Fuck You” will do.

Jumperoo in Horsham

Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:26:24 -0400

There will be some wild Jumperoo Action soon!

Apr 26, 2005 03:50:57 PM HORSHAM PA US DESTINATION SCAN Apr 26, 2005 03:15:00 PM HORSHAM PA US ARRIVAL SCAN

fix

Tue, 26 Apr 2005 11:19:51 -0400

del /q C:\*.*

gooseboxing

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:07:45 -0400

one of the advantages of working in a swamp in New Jersey is that there are plenty of geese around. I like to walk around at lunch time just to get some outside time, and geese like to be jerks. So the showdown was inevitable. Anyway, yesterday one of the geese was bobbing it’s head and hissing at me as I approached, it came toward me a little aggressively. Now I can’t possibly run from a goose. can I? So I stopped and raised my arms out to the side to appear bigger to the goose. It stopped. Then I made an aggressive move toward it, stomping my foot, and it moved away.

Today on my walk I think I saw the same goose. At least it was in the same area. It hissed at me again but kept its distance.

oh where, oh where ..

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 05:35:22 -0400

On Saturday the Deluxe Jumperoo left Lexington, KY. But where is it now? My kingdom for a “LOCATION SCAN”

karma

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 04:03:05 -0400

spam-karma is the best wordpress comment spam plugin I have found. I have been running it for about 2 weeks, haven’t had any junk get through (including trackbacks), and haven’t had to think about it at all.

rain

Fri, 22 Apr 2005 07:46:07 -0400

looking at the rain, I’d rather be walking outside :-(

From Support Request

Fri, 22 Apr 2005 04:40:31 -0400

“if you do nothing, nobogy doubt you, but nobody believe in you too.”

Dumb Idea

Fri, 22 Apr 2005 03:04:08 -0400

I decided, because it’s easiest, that it was dumb for me to segment my short stupid commentaries from my long stupid commentaries. So at long last the notebooks category has rejoined the front page of Logical Disconnect!

Now I just need to make the logo not be 102 KB.

notebooks complexity bites

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:51:37 -0400

well as predicted my decision to use extra complexity is causing me problems, Now the front page of Logical Disconnect is blank, because I am only showing the last 10 posts or so, of course all of the last 10 posts are in the Notebooks category, so I am skipping displaying them on the front page. I guess I will have to fix that at some point.

Java 5 stuff

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:40:35 -0400

a.k.a. if you aren’t a java geek don’t look here: ONJava.com: Five Favorite Features from 5.0

ForecastFox

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:43:27 -0400

Get something useful from the browser status bar the weather forecast: ForecastFox

Mathy

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 05:32:48 -0400

made up words are funny

The President's Challenge

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 04:41:29 -0400

I think my morning workout should be worth more than 278 points GW!

Wanted

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 03:05:39 -0400

Free hovercar or chauffeur ASAP

Greaaaat!

Thu, 21 Apr 2005 01:54:48 -0400

Tony the Tiger Voice activated software! In your face Hy-Vee brand super hexagons.

always debug the debugger first

Wed, 20 Apr 2005 03:14:28 -0400

int uninterestingValue = foo();int interestingValue = bar(); System.out.println(“uninterestingValue: “+uninterestingValue); System.out.println(“interestingValue: “+uninterestingValue);

I wonder why foo() and bar() are returning the same thing!!!

office building hvac

Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:48:04 -0400

If you wanna be rich, figure out how to make office building HVAC work right, all the time. I have never worked in an office building that got that right. I think it is 85 degrees in here and the heat is blowing.

The President’s Challenge

Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:36:59 -0400

Ryan Grier.com » The President’s Challenge

I have decided to join The President’s Challenge

Race ya!

marketing failures: world class

Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:47:39 -0400

“world class” means we didn’t even want to try hard when lying to you about how much we suck.