August 2009
78 posts
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Amazon Lawsuit on the Kindle books deletion →
Link goes to a PDF of the actual complaint filed. I tried to convert it to Kindle format (for those of you that don’t have a Kindle DX) but the results were terrible.
St. Ansgar schools may jam cell phone signals |... →
This is pretty god damn stupid and shortsighted. Are things so fucking peachy in Iowa that schools need to worry about cell phones? What if a doctor is visiting that school and gets an emergency call? What if it is a fireman or a policeman getting called for an emergency?
Idiots, you can’t jam cell phones selectively unless you have the means to issue units that are excluded. It is either...
Lawsuit: Amazon Kindle Ate My Homework - Digits -... →
And so it starts. If there is nothing in the EULA that allows Amazon to do this, then I would like to be part of the class action, since they deleted my copy of Animal Farm. I wouldn’t mind if they told me the copy was not good and asked me to delete it and pick up a new, properly licensed, copy, but having them delete it off my device, regardless of the excuse, sets a bad precedent.
July 2009
95 posts
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WatchWake up too early + song stuck in my head != fun
“Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking,...”
– Clifton Fadiman
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The Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 Experiment
One of the things that originally appealed to me about playing the Tiger Woods series of golf games is that a really shitty golf player like myself (never broke 100), can, with very little work, learn the game enough to hit monster 350+ yard drives and easily score par or better. Ask anyone that has actually played golf in real life about how it feels the first time you hit over 300 yards, the...
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See how a Vespa scooter is made
Tonight’s episode of How It’s Made (Science Channel, 9:00 PM EDT) is going to show the Vespa production plant in Italy. The episode is season 6, episode 13 and should come up in the schedule multiple times after tonight.
In defense of my vice: coffee
Love Coffee
My evil mother started me on coffee when I was around 6 years old. And no, I don’t want to quit, coffee is DELICIOUS.
Here's what I'd tell the aliens.
Twitter, that’ll keep them busy.
Three essentials I would bring to jail ...
Chastity belt
Uhm, duh.
Stainless steel teeth braces
Uhm, duh x 2.
12 pounds of vaseline
I’ll always coat myself in vaseline, so nobody can grab me.
I remember ...
We did not buy our house until my mom was pregnant with my only brother, before that we lived in a high rise apartment. I remember sitting at a kitchen counter eating lunch or dinner from a clear/blue plastic tray and watching the Flintstones. I was 3.
15 Books
karlaakins:
Off the very top of my head:
1. The Yearling
2. David Copperfield by Dickens
3. Little Women
4. The Girl of the Limberlost
5. Christy
6. Robinson Crusoe
7. The Glass Castle
8. Anne of Green Gables
9. Freckles
10. The Copper Scroll
11. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
12. This Present Darkness
13. Harry the Dirty Dog
14. The Scarlet Letter
15. Good-bye, Mr....
A minor nuisance in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10, and...
I would love to call this a bug, but it isn’t. Instead it is something annoying, probably overlooked when the game was designed.
I just spent about one hour playing Natalie Gulbis in one of the challenges. She is HARD, incredible short game, and if you try to play her too early, you may not even out-drive her.
Here’s the problem, I tied the challenge, so it went to sudden death.
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“If I hit it right, it’s a slice. If I hit it left, it’s a hook. If...”
– Unknown