Required Reading
Filed in Blogging, Distractions 30 November 2005, 12:31A quick blog recommendation: Carl Buell, illustrator extraordinaire, has finally started blogging at Olduvai George (get it?). If you read evolution-oriented blogs, you may have seen his comments (as OGeorge), and you’ve almost certainly seen his brilliant art. Go.
Hiatus
Filed in Meta, Personal 24 November 2005, 19:50Just a quick status report, and my excuse for not posting lately: my laptop has pretty much died. It runs for a short time, but then the ATA controller starts throwing errors. I’ve got a replacement (mmm, 12″ PowerBook G4) on the way, but I won’t have it until late next week. […]
Even better lighttpd
Filed in Computing & The Net 10 November 2005, 9:57I take back what I said previously about lighttpd not handling complicated virtual-host configs. Turns out it does it just fine, once you understand the config file format. Just add a clause like the below for each virthost where you want non-standard config. $HTTP[”host”] == “blog.munge.net” { (config goes here) } So now I’m back […]
Typo-fied!
Filed in Blogging, Meta 9 November 2005, 12:18So I’ve gone ahead and done it. We’re now running on Rails. I’m pretty sure most of the permalinks and feed-type thingys that anyone may have lying around will still work. If there are some that don’t, well, it’s not like I have a lot of readers to appease here. Note, by the way, that […]
Conversion
Filed in Blogging 2 November 2005, 23:30I think I’ve decided to change this blog over to Typo. I still need to do a lot of learning and playing to get everything where I want it, first, and I’m using my test Typo blog to talk myself through it as I work. If you want to give me suggestions, or […]
Hey, neat!
Filed in Random, Religion, Science & Pseudoscience 1 November 2005, 23:59I’ve officially hit the big time: I’ve got my first creationist comments! Unfortunately, he/she doesn’t have anything new to say; only familiar claptrap about thermodynamics, observation, faith, and morality. Plus, of course, conflation of abiogenesis, the big bang, and stellar formation with biological evolution. The one interesting (to me, anyway) statement is the claim that “the […]
Further comedy, even
Filed in Random, Funny , 22:35Language Log is always one of my favorite reads — look especially for Geoffrey Pullum’s brilliant posts on mega-hack Dan Brown’s torturous prose. But this stands out as one of the funniest damn things I’ve ever read.
Comedy!
Filed in Random, Funny , 14:35The two best comments from a thread at Making Light: Bruce E. Durocher II - October 29, 2005, 11:18 AM: Film joke #1: What’s in the briefcase in Ronin? The briefcase from Reservoir Dogs. Film joke #2: What’s in the car trunk in Repo Man? The suitcase from Kiss Me Deadly. Chris Clarke - October 31, […]
