I travelled to Athens tonight to meet up with Jess and see David Sedaris. He packed in the Classic Center, which holds 2000+, and gave a great performance. In this case “performance” means reading stories aloud - he stands behind a podium and reads from a notebook - but he was charmingly self-deprecating, […]
The hardest working man in Accounts Receivable drops a new article on us: “Bitchez,” I shouted from my hoopty. “Give up some numbahz 2 Daddy H so’s he can krunch ‘em.”
Harry Shearer (yes, that Harry Shearer) (confidential to my mom: he was in a very funny movie called This Is Spinal Tap) has a pretty cool website. (Thanks, Slate) One part of it, Found Objects, contains snippets of television taken from satellite feeds and other unnamed sources. In perhaps the choicest single line on […]
Wired has an article by Stephen Bodzin about TV-B-Gone, a device in the shape of an car’s key-chain fob. Push the button, and it sends out the “turn off TV” codes of every known television. It takes about a minute to send them all. I saw the headlines on other news sites and brushed […]
I’m having a problem with the Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 compiler - an INTERNAL COMPILER ERROR. Venting about it to Morris, I paste the offending code into the Trillian instant message window. A re-enactment follows: Me: Morris: Well, clearly you’re suffering from Unhappy Code. This’s kindof amusing - after a few years we’re used to […]
