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Re: A new reason to hate Comcast (Scripting News)

bbum — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:09:19 -0000

bruce -- you are not making sense.

The equivalent analogy would be if a car company sold you a car with a promise that you could rive it at 60mph, but, in reality, you could only drive it at 60mph at 5am... the rest of the time, it might be limited to 30mph.

If it runs at all.

Bottom line: Comcast is selling a bill of goods that they fail to deliver.

Re: Laughing Squid Circuit Board by Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

bbum — Tue, 13 May 2008 14:04:53 -0000

Awesome.

Now, to make it *do* something. Convenient that there are 8 arms as the tiniest of AVR controllers has 8 pins...

Hmmm...

Re: iSight Trick NOT a Security Flaw

bbum — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:23:09 -0000

The MacDevCenter article was written in response to a WebLog post I made on 5/19/2005 (coincidentally, my third anniversary as an Apple employee). My QC composition was a slightly modified version of one of Sam Kass's rather amazing collection.

See this post for details: http://www.friday.com/bbum/2005/05/19/take-on-me-2

Re: Scary iSight Trick | Joseph Crawford

bbum — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:25:15 -0000

Yeah -- this has been around for a while. No -- no video is sent back to the server. Here is a version I did last year that stylizes the video to look like aHa's 'Take On me...'. No -- I'm not smart enough to write the original patch. Sam Kass did that.

http://www.friday.com/bbum/2005/05/19/take-on-me-2

Re: "At this time, the bird stops struggling and will typically not put up a fuss until the final few beats of its heart." | Abolitionist Vegans

bbum — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:34:35 -0000

I see your weblog now has comments. Good for you/it!

As I said in response on the post you link to before you had such comments:

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Your claim that I somehow harvested this turkey as a means of proving or improving my manhood is just complete jackassery.

That turkey died for exactly one purpose; to put food on my table. I decided to slaughter the thanksgiving bird myself because I feel it is damned important to be willing to harvest whatever I consume.

Taking a couple of photos and quotes out of context for your weblog, preceding it by false claims about the character of an individual you have never met, [and at the time] not allowing anyone to respond directly on your site, and then following it with an invitation to post drivel over here “in the name of the cause” is just flat out cowardly and, frankly, rude.

Worse, it does nothing good for your “cause”. Your actions leave me with the impression that your site is just another hate-based organization. Too many of those in the world, no need for another.
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And, again, thanks to JonBen for providing evidence that VegPage.com is not entirely about perpetuating hate.

I thought I remembered that vegpage.com had a useful collection of recipes. Couldn't find it, though. Bummer, too. I lived with a near-vegan [vegetarian + cheese, occasional farmed egg] family for a while and found that eating vegan/vegetarian was quite easy to do when the food didn't suck. Cooking vegan isn't actually that hard, it is just quite a bit different than how most folks were taught to cook.