DISQUS

Congrats!

Olives

I kinda hope you're wrong, Jeremy, since I have no choice but to be the lone gunman. It's all on me, whether I like it or not. Most days, I like it.

By the way, I gotta get in on those coffees sometime.

Pedal steel is wickedly, notoriously, insanely difficult to master. Lap steels, on the other hand, are fairly simple. Easier to store and cheaper too.

Of course that could be equivalent to saying you love clarinet and me suggesting a recorder...

Busyness tends to annoy me, and I tend to think the people who promote it are a little stupid.

They don't seem to understand that it's patently obvious they're just making themselves look busy. Maybe it's stretching a small task into a week's work, or fussing over some pointless little thing incessantly, but it's obvious, and it's annoying. There's some sort of combination of Eddie Haskell apple-polishing and drone bee brainless activity that just gets under my skin.

I think if someone is really doing their job well, there should be long periods in which they really don't appear to be doing much at all, and those are typically punctuated by amazing flurries of activity where A LOT happens, very quickly, in a way the busy worker typically would never be prepared for.

I used to be a reporter, and much of the day was spent twiddling thumbs. Maybe I was waiting on phone calls, maybe I was thinking up a lead, who knows, but no visible work was getting done. Once I sat down to type, I could knock out 15 inches of pretty decent copy in less than half an hour.

Congratulations, Jeremy! It's very exciting... looks like you're out in Olathe, maybe? Or out west?

My wife and I bought our first home in Prairie Village two years ago. I've since discovered that I'm surprisingly good at drywall, and a well-finished basement can be a wonderful place to be.

I've got the office on one end and the guitars, TV and couch along the other. It's cozy, comfortable, and quiet... or at least insulated from the rest of the house.

I like it much better. Looks good!

The idea that the cavemen might be gay just makes it that much funnier (and more effective), I think.

As for the cookies, I thought it was a good idea that missed the mark. Using it to market milk was just too oblique a reference. I think someone's going to be smart and use the same technology in the grocery store, where the sell the tubes of ready-to-bake Toll Houses. There, the progression is much more direct and natural: "ummm cookies... must buy cookies... fresh cookies"

I think a lot of people are like me: they get their RSS feeds at work (keeping up with things takes a lot less time), so they miss the weekends. Heck, some weekends I don’t even fire up a browser.
Also, when you have a lot of feeds, ones that aren’t being updated or read tend to get dropped, especially if you’re using Firefox’s RSS, which leaves the site there all the time. Even if it’s not being updated it’s there, so if it’s not being updated it’s just in the way.

It might be less annoying if the ads were better. Unfortunately, they’re annoying, terrible and obnoxious, and somehow manage to highlight the worst of car advertising AND the worst of Taylor Hicks at the same time.

And poor Hicks is watching himself become a hokey corporate shill before he even got a chance to make his hokey psuedo-soul record.

Nobody wins.

Take a look at the hcal microformat. It’s basically a rewrite of the ical standard in semantic xhtml, and (although I’ve never implemented this myself) allows an iCal hookup. "Eric Meyers has written on how to make the connection":http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2005/05/18/getting-onto-the-calendar/.