J’s blog

If ever you’re looking for the time-setting eqivalent of whiplash, I doubt you could do much better than shifting from watching Of Mice and Men to reading Pattern Recognition.
It also raised an interesting (for me) rhetorical question:
What is the shortest time period over the last 100 years which saw the most personal change in the [...]

What is Ray Liotta, the kiss of death to good plots everywhere?
One would think that John Cusack would know better — but then again I thought the same thing about Morgan Freeman showing up in Dreamcatcher. Why, oh why would anyone do either of those films after Se7en and The Shawshank Redemption or The [...]

Not too much here:

Got the west-wing bluetooth working for my palm pilot, includes updating routing at home.
Moved my palm links to http://j.snyder.name/palm
Using PHP, I can now make sure only I can access the X10 remote-control of lamps. Now, I can do it from my palm pilot anywhere in the house! Without using up [...]

For quite some time I’ve been dinking around trying to get SASL to work on my colo box. It took

Reading lots of people bitch about the lack of it on nanog
Realizing that the latest account I created (but hasn’t gone live yet) will need it for outbound mail from behind a rr.com port-25 block
Finally [...]

Didn’t she know that I would report it to spamcop?

Ingredient options are listed in order of preference:
For each loaf:

1 cup 1% buttermilk, or regular milk (have extra ready)
1/2 stick butter, sliced
3 tablespoons honey or sugar
3 cups unsifted flour (any combination of whole wheat and white works with at least 1 cup white flour)
3/4 tsp salt
1 tablespoon yeast (quick-rise works best)
pam with flour

You will also [...]

Sanctimonious bullsh*t for the Hotline
When you’re using sex to obtain money it’s no longer a private life.
Has anyone else asked if Jeff Gannon paid taxes on the income from his escort services?

The nice thing about this one is that the chips stay soft even when the cookies cool!
Sue thinks this one came from a jello recipe, but doesn’t recall for certain…
1/4 CUP SUGAR
2 sticks of butter
3/4 cup brown sugar, packed
small package instant vanilla pudding
1 tsp vanilla
beat the above until light and fluffy
add 2 eggs [...]

Best said accusatorily:
You’re not flying higher than an eagle, are you?

CNN.com – Pope: Gay marriage is ‘evil’ – Feb 23, 2005, and also that abortion is like the holocaust.
So, this is the same position held by the leader of the catholic church who, during WWII, sat idly by and let the Nazi’s exterminate Jews, political prisoners, and gays? Yes? Yes.
The password is “irrelevant”.

Discussion about the wordpress 1.5 upgrade

Where’s George? ® 2.0 Bill Tracking Report should tell you that it wasn’t too stupid for me to put into the system!
Then again, I don’t see anyone surfing over there to learn to perform their own pacemaker upgrade when out at sea alone.

Watch “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” immediately after watching “The Matrix” and/or “Lord of the Rings”

Why is Frodo the main character, while Sam is the one the audience is left to identify with?

If there has to be a death on a road to get a speed bump, does it necessarily require a car to be involved in that death?

Nature has it’s place, and that place is OUTSIDE!

Except perhaps in the interesting people mailing list.
From John S. Quarterman
This isn’t something that many of us particularly want to do; science isn’t about attacking religion; it is about science. However, this isn’t science; it is politics. What creationists believe and teach in their own homes and churches is their affair. But when they [...]

…is that the seats in the theatre weren’t turned 90°. It did have many good quotes
IMDB reference

Everyone who knew me before is shocked and surprised

Wasting all day rebuilding a laptop from scratch. Just to watch weatherbug installed on it first thing.