For me to link to a post about a post on The fun of fatherhood.
Myself, I was never much for D&D (I played once or twice, but have always preferred SciFi over fantasy).
Happy SysAdmin Day! | Geekdad from Wired.com
Time for catchup blogging!
As is my custom, we begin with things overheard:
- Overheard Everywhere | Not the First Time He’s Had to Clarify That Today
- Overheard Everywhere | Fine– Arby’s It Is
- Overheard in the Office | Let’s All Brush Up on Our Speakerphone Etiquette
- Overheard in the Office | I Haven’t Decided Which Half
And since we’ve been travelling waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much, here are some beach sites:
- Great American Beach Towns in Beach + Island on Concierge.com
- Great American Beach Towns in Beach + Island on Concierge.com
- Great American Beach Towns in Beach + Island on Concierge.com
- Great American Beach Towns in Beach + Island on Concierge.com
- Great American Beach Towns in Beach + Island on Concierge.com
Geeky things:
- Harvey Balls – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Shibboleth® 2.0 Available
- Blackberry vs. iPhone
- Why you want a Linux Live CD | Defensive Computing – CNET News.com
- Not a Guessing Game – Vixie on the DNS vulnerability
- 189 Funny UNIX Error Messages | fsckin w/ linux
- Linux.com :: Improve system performance by moving your log files to RAM
- Lazy Linux: 10 essential tricks for admins
- ‘Spam King’ escapes from federal prison | Zero Day | ZDNet.com
- Escaped spammer dies in murder-suicide – Crime & courts- msnbc.com
Political things:
- Electoral-vote.com: President, Senate, House Updated Daily
- FSM in fireworks2.jpg (JPEG Image, 450×347 pixels)
- Running for Office: It’s Like A Flamewar with a Forum Troll, but with an Eventual Winner
Funny things:
- This cartoon wrote a sweary word on your toilet wall. « the rut.
- » Highlights Magazine: The Evil Version
- Which Cocktails Pack Most Calories? – Photos – KNTV | San Francisco
- mental_floss Blog » Pass the Knowledge: The Origins of Your Favorite Condiments
And finally, parenting:
Catching up again…
First, things overheard:
- Overheard in the Office | And Get Yourself Some Therapy?
- Overheard at the Beach | Especially for the Part of It That’s Passing Through Me
- Overheard Everywhere | Fine– Arby’s It Is
Geeky things:
- 12 Websites To Help You Learn Flash/ActionScript
- Dlink DWL-G122 WPA – Ubuntu Forums
- Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers
- Study: Perception of hole size influenced by performance
- MySQL Blog:: MySQL: Replication stopped: Lock wait timeout exceeded
- DNSSEC HOWTO
- Heh
- How to win Arguments – Dos, Don’ts and Sneaky Tactics – Stepcase Lifehack
- What’s Inside: ‘Just for Men’ Hair Color
Politics:
- Congressional Confidential: Farewell, Jesse Helms | Indecision2008 | Comedy Central
- Think Progress » McClellan: Iraq’s Oil ‘Certainly Played Heavily’ In Cheney’s Desire To Launch War
- Bourbon business booms – MSN Money
- An American Pastime: Smoking Pot – TIME
Film:
2blog folder is not full, but here goes anyway…
Oooo…Media
Digg – This Is Why I Hate CNN (Pic)
Digg – No, f*** you, reader of CNN
Geeky things:
Vlc: Master Your Digital Media with VLC
Optimize Ubuntu 8.04 for Speed – Speed up Hardy Heron! – Softpedia
Gallery2:How To Write Scripts – Gallery Codex
Debian – you can never be sure
Ten tips for securing Linux desktops – at ZDNet.co.uk
Hands on: 12 quick hacks for Firefox 3 – LinuxWorld
The Urge to End It – Understanding Suicide – NYTimes.com
How to “Peel” Hard-Boiled Eggs Without Peeling – The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
Parenting things:
Why Most Sunscreens Don’t Work | Newsweek To Your Health | Newsweek.com
Funny things:
The 5 Most Unintentionally Scarring ’80s Music Videos | Cracked.com
Pranks: Just Say ‘Yes’ To Telemarketers
Abstruse Goose » At the Driving Range
Local News: Man found in WI basement covered in BBQ sauce | sauce, basement, covered : WWMT NEWSCHANNEL 3 (What makes this funny is that I’ve been in Appleton)
Time to empty the 2blog folder
For those who care, I have really, *really* short names for my bookmarks toolbar folders — for instance, my leftmost folder, which contains links that I visit daily, is labelled simply ‘1’. I use foxmarks to keep my bookmarks synchronized between all my browsers, and I use the “Add Bookmark Here2” plugin to just add pages to that 2blog folder when I come across a page I want to share later.
Then, once it gets overwhelmingly large, I just copy the links from that folder to a post.
As usual I start with things overheard:
- Overheard in New York | So Are We Having Lunch at McDonald’s?
- Overheard in New York | We’ll Keep Romance Alive Until Straight People Want It Again
- Overheard in New York | Hasn’t Bush Passed a Law About This?
- Overheard in New York | Is That a New Gay Bar in Chelsea?
- Overheard in the Office | Gouda Luck!
- Overheard in the Office | It’s Like a Party in My Diaphragm!
- Overheard in the Office | That’s a Sobriety Test in and of Itself
- Overheard in the Office | Sorry, the Clown Suit Keeps Throwing Me Off
- Overheard in the Office | Another Texan Reveals That He’s Not a Steer
- Overheard in the Office | That Sucks, Frank
Geeky things:
- SourceForge.net: Hobbit monitor
- The Emperor Workstation
- Banshee » Home
- View topic – Vista: Tweaked, Tuned, Hacked
- Computerworld > Asperger’s: the IT industry’s dark secret
- The Stalled Server Room – The Daily WTF
Political things:
- 2008 Presidential Election Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College
- FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: 51,199,463,116,367 (Shout-Outs)
- Gay marriages worth $684 million – CNN.com
- Intelligent people ‘less likely to believe in God’ – Telegraph
- Where Is My Gay Apocalypse? / Over 3,500 gay marriages and, what, no hellfire? I was promised hellfire. And riots. What gives?
- Obama the Delegator Picks When to Take Reins – NYTimes.com
- Lambda Legal: Marriage for Same-Sex Couples in California
Just generally interesting:
Quickie catchup blogging
- Banshee » Home
- The worst airline — ever – Business travel- msnbc.com
- 2008 Presidential Election Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College
- Gay marriages worth $684 million – CNN.com
- J gets another father of the year nomination, courtesy of The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
- FiveThirtyEight.com: Electoral Projections Done Right: 51,199,463,116,367 (Shout-Outs)
- Intelligent people ‘less likely to believe in God’ – Telegraph
- Obama the Delegator Picks When to Take Reins – NYTimes.com
- Where Ideas Come From
- Lambda Legal: Marriage for Same-Sex Couples in California – is a trip to CA in my future soon?
- 15 Browser Add Ons You Can’t Afford to Miss | Nethackz.com
- Marc Ambinder (June 17, 2008) – Images Of The Election: A Pin In Dallas — wow, does that describe desperation, eh?
This is a bad year to be a celebrity…
(No mention of the global economy, however)
Catching up again…
It has been busy — as I’m sure you can tell from the photoblog. Man, oh man is that 2blog folder full!
Starting with all things overheard:
- Overheard in the Office | I Thought That Chick Seemed a Little Young
- Overheard in the Office | It’s Quite Possible That Women Have Dirtier Minds Than Men
- Overheard Everywhere | Straight Men: Dammit, You Guys Ruin Everything!
- Overheard Everywhere | Good Thing Pluto Didn’t Hear That
- Overheard Everywhere | Then What’s Sap?
- Overheard Everywhere | Just Part of What It Means to Be an American
- Overheard Everywhere | It’s Funny ’til Somebody Loses an Aircraft
- Overheard Everywhere | Guess Which One’s the “Naughty Librarian”
- Overheard in New York | More Like She Was Doing a Pigeon Impersonation and My Penis Happened to Be There
- Overheard in New York | Probably Isn’t a Single Spit-Free Surface in New York
- Overheard in New York | Aw Well, Let’s Head on Back to Columbia
- Overheard in the Office | Very Slowly
- Overheard in the Office | So Are We Just Chitchatting, or Are We Robbing This Bank?
- Overheard Everywhere | Just the Guy We’ve Been Looking For!
- Overheard Everywhere | But We Call Them “American Voters”
- Overheard in New York | Now on to “Mary Had a Little Cab”
(I told you it has been a while!)
And, in honor of the official end of the Democratic primary season, all things political come next:
- swing-em-home
- STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE || A SONY PICTURES CLASSICS RELEASE
- Obama Over The Top: How New Voters Could Redraw The Electoral Map | Progress Illinois
- The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
- 5 Psychological Experiments That Prove Humanity is Doomed | Cracked.com
- Bill O’Reilly’s Producer – CollegeHumor video
- Congressman Cracks Down on Soft Porn at the PX | Newsweek National News | Newsweek.com
- Cover story: ‘Christopher Hitchens’ by Alexander Linklater | Prospect Magazine May 2008 issue 146
- atheism11.gif (GIF Image, 576×630 pixels) – Scaled (93%)
- The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
- offical
- Bad Astronomy Blog » That’s it. Texas really is doomed.
- Gene Expression: Biblical literalism or low IQ: which came first?
There are a slew of geeky links:
- 30 Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples | Six Revisions
- stat – perldoc.perl.org
- Anatomy of Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)
- YouTube – First scientifically accurate visualization of 9/11 attack
- mod_auth_mysql and phpass « Barry on WordPress
- PC World – 26 Tricks to Help You Tame Google Calendar
- Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Firefox 3 Features
- Main Page – Geo Hashing
- Want That Post to Go Popular? Here’s The Best and Worst Times to Post It – ReadWriteWeb
- Hackers change grades at Fort Bend ISD high school | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle
- Start a Fire Without Matches | The Art of Manliness
- Neatorama » Blog Archive » 10 Insulting Words You Should Know
- Migrating to ext4
- Austin WordPress Professional Office « Andy Skelton
- Hive Five: Five Best Start Pages
- Server theft knocks Peter Gabriel off the web | The Register
- Encrypted backup using BackupPC, LVM and cryptsetup | Michael’s Domain
- Link by Link – This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix – NYTimes.com
- Towel Day – Celebrating the life and work of Douglas Adams
- mental_floss Blog » He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died
- Alan Taylor has collected the longest drives that Google Maps… (kottke.org)
- malevole – Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer?
- imaginary numbers
- Real vs. Fake
- 15×15 (Worhol would be proud)
It’s summertime here in Austin:
- How to Grill Meat, Seafood, and Vegetables | The Ultimate Guide to Grilling | Food : RealSimple.com
- Skills for Men – Things Men Should Be Able to Do – Esquire
- Ananova – Dad’s pirate flag battle
I’m not such a bad dad, after all…
- Parents try to sell baby on eBay – CNN.com
- Driver buckles beer in car — but not child – CNN.com
- Dad died saving his little girl :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Chicago Crime
- LISD HS#5
- Fabulously40.com – 25 Ways To Tell You’re Grown Up
- Skills for Men – Things Men Should Be Able to Do – Esquire
- extinctiontimeline.jpg (JPEG Image, 1500×1061 pixels)
- Marginal Revolution: When should you take photographs?
- not bacon
- Fight back against restaurants’ cruel abuse of wine drinkers. – By Christopher Hitchens – Slate Magazine
Film:
Funny:
It happened sometime earlier this year…
But I have now been on the internet more than half of my life.
Catchup blogging…
Here comes the core dump from the 2blog folder, in no particular order:
- SEOmoz | Google Search Results Missing from OneBox
- For a Pinball Survivor, the Game Isn’t Over – New York Times
- Congressman Cracks Down on Soft Porn at the PX | Newsweek National News | Newsweek.com
- 30 Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples | Six Revisions
- SynClaire
- The Favicon Gallery
- Favicon Galleries = 15,000+ Favicons : Ask the eConsultant
- intoDNS: checks DNS and mail servers health
- Index of /~gandalf/ubuntu
- The Cup Stops Here | Popular Science
- The Austin Chronicle: News: Dildos No Longer a Hard Sell
- Department of Homeland Security website hacked! | The Register
- sciencevscreationismjd7.gif (GIF Image, 468×313 pixels)
- Gentoo Overlays
- Six Diseases You Don’t Want : DivineCaroline
- The Truth About the Spinning Dancer – Well – Tara Parker-Pope – Health – New York Times Blog
- PC World – 18 Features Windows Should Have (but Doesn’t)
- A Case of Network Identity Theft? – Security Fix
Two in a row?
Hell, I’d be happy with one. Ever!
Iowan Shoots One In 67 Million Golf Game – Sports News Story – KCCI Des Moines
Rainy days and Mondays…
Now cheer me up. Why? Because the golf courses will be really nice and green when I play!
Catchup blogging
Geeky things to start off:
- ZipTie.org
- DBI Recipes
- TAP Modem Numbers
- Fight Splogs – Wired How-To Wiki
- O’Reilly Network — The CSS Anarchist’s Cookbook
- http://xkcd.com/chesscoaster/
Other interesting things:
- Six steps to beat procrastination – I meant to post this days ago.
- Top 10 Kurt Vonnegut Quotes
- Top 10 Greatest Movie Rants
Worst. Idea. Ever.
Combine “Star Wars” — especially episode 1 — with Andrew Lloyd Weber. What do you get?
Phanton of the Menace
I give it 20 years before it is made without irony. Either that or:
Ani Get Your Saber
Idea from this vader poster.
