Reverse the polarity!- June 30, 2008 Lost track of where I found this, but nevertheless this scatterplot of liberalconservative views is interesting. However, while I can't speak to the methodology, I would have reversed the scales to give liberals the positive side, and conservatives the negative side seeing as how they tend to be the more backwards-thinking of the pair. Just sayin'.http://www.orrill.com/blog/archives/001521.html Whew- June 30, 2008 Our marriage has been saved! Dear Jason, You spoke, and we listened. We are keeping Profiles. Thank you for all the calls and emails telling us how important Profiles are. We are sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused. We hope the next time you hear from us we will delight, and not disappoint, you. -Your friends at Netflixhttp://www.orrill.com/blog/archives/001520.html Marital stress- June 20, 2008 Marriages are about compromise. For the most part, I think Chandra and I do a decent job with that. We manage to negotiate things where necessary, and sometimes let things go. Of course, there are points of intense disagreement, which is why the following note from Netflix sent a chill up my spine: Dear Jason, We wanted to let you know we will be eliminating Profiles, the feature that allowed you to set up separate DVD Queues under one account, effective September 1, 2008. Each additional...http://www.orrill.com/blog/archives/001519.html That other war- June 18, 2008 Kevin Drum has some cheery thoughts regarding Afghanistan. If Iraq is a disaster and a quagmire, I can only think that Afghanistan is revving up to be an epic fail of monumental proportions. The kind of failure that will make the Iraq debacle look good in comparison.http://www.orrill.com/blog/archives/001518.html Wordle- June 14, 2008 Via Wordle, a cloud of words from the last 2500 lines of this blog, give or take.http://www.orrill.com/blog/archives/001517.html Cut his mike!- June 10, 2008 Via Salon.com, the following quote from 1950: For it is the plain fact that nowadays there are no conservative or reactionary ideas in general circulation &8230; the conservative impulse and the reactionary impulse do not &8230; express themselves in ideas but only &8230; in irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas.http://www.orrill.com/blog/archives/001516.html And you thought iMacs were simple- June 6, 2008 INT. basement office JASON is sitting at his computer watching a progress bar stall out and stop. A message pops up on the screen indicating that the download has failed. Jason Argh. What the hell is up with the network He gets up and walks over to the DSL modem and shuts it off, followed by the Airport hub sitting next to it and two routers on the other side of the room. He pauses after unplugging the last piece of hardware. JASON (CONT'D) One...two...three...four...five... He then reverses...http://www.orrill.com/blog/archives/001515.html Muttering to myself- June 6, 2008 while( !$burnedIntoBrain ) echo "excellent, not spectacular" ;http://www.orrill.com/blog/archives/001514.html "Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You ..."- June 4, 2008 On Kung Fu Monkey today, I found the following: ...I should be so lucky as to be "hustled" off the national stage after 54 goddam primaries and caucuses. Many, many, many of us who wanted Senator Clinton "hustled" off the stage wanted her gone not because a hotly contested primary race was the issue, but because of the way she ran it. I didn't want a female senator out of the race. I didn't want a universal health-care advocate out of the race. I wanted the weirdly Republican-lite, crazy...http://www.orrill.com/blog/archives/001513.html An inappropriate response- June 3, 2008 Vermont you big doof. Chandra On Jun 2, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Jason Orrill wrote: Virginia Tech That's not really what I meant when I suggested something shotgun-themed. On Jun 2, 2008, at 12:33 PM, Chandra Orrill wrote: We're going to VT for our anniversary -- well, actually for Vanessa's wedding, but it's all the same. I'll mark out some days on your calendar. We can fly out of SC. mehttp://www.orrill.com/blog/archives/001512.html |