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I need to start this off by saying that I did, in fact, vote against Proposition 8. A great many of my friends are gay, I support them with all of my heart, and fully understand why this means so much to them. But I feel like I didn’t really stick to my [...]

I got called for jury duty this week, got released yesterday, here’s the description I wrote for my boss:
I got potentially picked for a jury, gang member with face tattoos, two counts (1) felony possession of firearm, (2) possession of marijuana with intent to sell. 36 brought in, 12 needed, 18 interviewed in the first [...]

I am not a scientologist.
Let’s begin there.
I have never given money to the Church of Scientology, nor do I intend to.
I can believe that a second-rate science fiction writer with a checkered past could come up with something useful. L. Ron Hubbard was plainly a smart man. I can imagine a 1950’s engineering [...]

Last night, in a fit of nostalgia over my formative years programming the TI-99, I got a hankering for a t-shirt with some hexadecimal digits. See, we used to program sprites in hex, and that was my introduction to computer graphics, and I can pretty much do hex math in my head. It [...]

In response to a thread on Facebook about privacy stemming from this interesting presentation that I can’t be arsed to watch the whole way through, I wrote this:
There is no big brother, and never will be. Thanks to openness and the internet, our culture has dodged that bullet. All we have are a thousand little [...]

Another friend asked me what I know I about search engine optimization, particularly hiring a company to do that sort of work for her.
Do you know anything about this? I need my website to come up at the top of the heap. Can you direct me to someone competent who understands SEO/Spiders/Metatags/etc. Let [...]

People ask me to explain things to them sometimes, and so I do. My friend Felicity asked:
So i’ve been researching North Korea lately, and trying to learn stuff. I never really did understand communism…i mean i understand the idea of it…but it just seems really complex. So i’ve always been kind of [...]

i’ve been sick for a couple of days, 101°+ fever, kicked in right when i finished the phd paperwork, and then today worked at the office till almost midnight, and i bought nyquil on the way home, so i thought now would be a good time to share this excerpt from dennis leary’s no cure [...]

fun with photoshop

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I was just trying to look up the latin word for “hanging” as in suspended, hanging in the balance, etc. and I discovered this word:
propexus -a -um [combed forwards , hanging down]
hahahaha!!! OK, yeah, no one is laughing but me. Yet.
Has anyone seen ads for Propecia? AKA finasteride, a male pattern hair [...]