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Re: The BMW 335i’s Power Is Underrated

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:02:07 -0000

I loved my BMW while I had it. You'll definitely appreciate going from to a 33x versus a 32x, the difference is sizable and your very handy dynometer graphic shows what the Bavarian experience is.

Re: More On Incentives

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:25:47 -0000

This would be the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic reward systems.

Your argument also echoes the argument of "morality doesn't come from the Bible" which is currently being spouted by Dawkins every 2.3 seconds.

steven

Re: The Great Purge

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:42:00 -0000

I thought you were in NYC? Did you lug all your stuff w/ you, or are you back home ( or did I miss a post ? ).

Re: Playing With My Wii

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:45:59 -0000

I agree! My girlfriend ( BTW. she is your fianc&eacutee ) just got our 2nd Wii controller shipped so now we can WiiTennis together. Make sure you get another controller!

Although the two controller thing takes some getting used to. I started Shadow Princess and wound up going nuts trying to ride a horse in circles. Somehow I can't convince my right arm that it needs to move while controlling and while my left thumb needs to be moving directionally.

Re: The Real Reason MacWorld Didn’t Have Anything About Leopard

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:49:17 -0000

Heh, no need for the Beryl over-kill, I'd go for just having 4 virtual desktops! C'mon everyone knows Expose was like the US space program investing the space pen instead of just using the pencil ( i.e. virtual desktops ).

Re: Security + Language = Shibboleth

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:46:59 -0000

I learned about another practical instance of this when I was learning Dutch.

There is a famous beach near The Hague ( Den Haag or des Gravenhage, has 'twas known in days of yore ) called Scheveningen.

The syllable of that Sch is unique to Dutch, it's a rolling gutteral and is markedly different from the Sch sound in German ( which is like Sh in the English word Sheep ).

Thus, similar to the WW reference above, Scheveningen was a shibboleth during WWII to identify Germans from Dutchmen.

Being a studious-minded guy I managed to get the phoneme before my departure. It really gets the ol' Vollmer bone buzzing.

Re: Flattered

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:09:28 -0000

I like this post because in it the reader kinda thinks that maybe dmiessler is going to open up a can of wh00p ass, but instead he is like Kit Fisto in the battle of Genosis when a droid-ified C3-PO is firing at him, Fisto just Force pushes him in a corner and gives him that famous Kit Fisto smile as if to say "'sall good, I know you were under evil cyborg programming"

Way to spread the Kit Fisto love. Cuz nothing says irie and understanding quite like green, meat-dreadlocks.

Re: I Live In Constant Fear Of Doing Things Inefficiently

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:38:57 -0000

Do you use 'tags' for vim? It's something that I think I should understand, but don't. I'm pretty sure it would help me with Perl development.

Most of my software development, at the moment, takes place inside of an IDE or a non-vim-optimized environment: Java (NetBeans), Rails ( Textmate ) , C (DevC , it's Win32-oriented).

The only writing I do in vim is either short Ruby or Perl ( of long length ). I hear tags is pretty helpful. Perhaps that's the next Meissler tutorial?

Re: I Live In Constant Fear Of Doing Things Inefficiently

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:07:34 -0000

@scott:

My work has a gorgeous Xerox Document Center multifunction device ( no, i'm not getting paid for that ). I've recently started taking some community college classes and am now taking my textbooks and, once the chapter has been tested over, slicing out the pages and putting them in the doc feeder -> PDF.

1. Less bookshelf space consumed.
2. Less to tote around.

I grant, reading PDF isn't as good as the flip back and forth, so I don't use it for the 'learning' phase of knowledge acquisition, but keep it for reference.

Re: The Will To Power

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:05:20 -0000

I'd be very wary of the WTP and its integration into the larger Nietzsche's ouvre. N. presented very many dynamite ideas and, owing to his Dionysian affiliations, presented them with a great amount of, shall we say, gusto.

It's when these ideas are linked together that some very unfortunate consequences get justified as extensions of Nietzschean philosophy (or get associated with the actual historical philosopher).

The WTP is one of those ideas. Surely N. mentioned this idea in many spots, but thanks to his proto-Nazi redactrice of a sister some of the dots got connected in ways that I don't believe Fred would have intended. Surely National Socialism would have been something he would have hated owing to the cult of personality, the religious overtones, etc. This was not a man who could be bridled ( except in a certain famous photo of he Paul Ree, and "Lou" (Louisa) Salomé).

I think that the real root of N. ideology that underlines the WTP is this: responsibility. As the legacy states of imperial Europe prepared to march off to their undoing and the commercial class helped quicken the nation state Nietzsche's message was one of hope and promise: You can live your own life, and in exchange for this absolute freedom sans monach, class, rank, etc, comes absolute responsibility.

I like to think that the will to power is a will to responsibility, or a will to ruthlessness (i.e. fastidiousness, focus, unrelentingness).

Re: Language: Ending With A Preposition

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:38:13 -0000

The problem may come from a lack of understanding about the Low Germanic origins of English syntax ( and, as Jason noted, attempting to use Latin as formation rubric against which that language is applied ). What Churchill is really doing is abusing the phrasal facility of English verbs.

In low German or Dutch you can say:

"Ik leg m'n boek neer"

or

"I lay my book down".

The verb involved is the separable verb "neerleggen" meaning "to lay / set down"

Taking Churchill's example, the verb involved is not "put" but rather "put up with" As we lack a facility for turning "put up with" into a solid, single verb ( like neerleggen ), I'll use _-es, à la programmer-eese.

This is the sort of English which I will not put_up_with (the infinitive of the phrasal verb).

Re: Tornadoes

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:43:04 -0000

The sky was blacker than a funeral suit
Hotter than a depot stove
Hide in the cellar
Here comes Amarillo, blowin up the road.

You guy hail stones big as hen eggs boys
clouds as green can be
Old Mother Nature's raisin' hell
She parked a pickup in a tree

Tornado Time in Texas, take the pain right offa your barn
Tornado time in Texas, blow the tattoo offa your arm.

Guy Clark : "Tornado time in Texas" :: Workbench Songs

Re: Cheerleaders Make The Best Saleswomen

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:32:09 -0000

I'd argue that there's a contrary phenomenon afoot as well, namely that good looking people never develop alternative methods of manipulation ( cajole, fool, manipulate, shame, etc. ) nor do they develop skills like reading "is the cop buying this?" or truly "acting".

As the youth factors wear off, the ability to slide on looks shortens and the less-stellar but more clever ( see Cleopatra ) actually get respect from men _and_ know how to manipulate populations of them versus the sole cop, bouncer, etc.

And FWIW, Hooters sucks. It always struck me as the worst of both worlds. Bad wings and not really an effective house of prurient interest. It least at Bone Daddy's the ribs are good or the Texas Roadhouse they do a boot dance on the half hour.

Re: Love

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:58:55 -0000

Daniel,

If I'm not mistaken, human females prefer white rocks, with many facets, much clarity, and much carat. You're on the right track with this story, just look for rocks the superheated carbon variety.

Steven

Re: I Used To Like My Own Site Design

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:47:35 -0000

If you want to add to your hatred of your own site design you may want to take in these two presentations that I caught during SXSW:

Typography on the web sucks
Grids are good

I think you'll want to apply what these guys taught as soon as possible :-D I found it very inspiring — very reminiscent of my time in the Netherlands where the discipline of modernist poster design will never go out of style.

Steven

Re: Perhaps The Most Important Reason Cannabis Should Be Legal

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:36:25 -0000

The correlate to insight of this variety is: "Once the phone rings, hang up." .

Incidentally someone else agrees with that point of view too...

http://archive.salon.com/letters/daily/2000/07/...

Re: RoR: Mac + Textmate + SSHfs = Remote Development

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:34:37 -0000

This is a good tool. No doubt.

Yet I wonder if it doesn't encourage some dangerous attitudes practices.

1. Revision control.

Yikes. I love the *convenience* of being able to edit remotely, but unless your remote directory is RC-protected, you run the real risk of shooting yourself in the foot.

Now yes, yes, yes, I know that you can get around this by using SVN on your mounted dir, but I think that most people ( at least when I was using mounted shares on windows this was the practice ) just open the share, make an edit, and move on. Or think "oh this is just a teensy change....".

That may be more of a problem with the developer and not the tool...

2. The Rails Model

Develop locally and then use a deployment technology. 37Signals grew out the "Capistrano" tool which is a master of deployments ( imagine Rake SSH ). This makes deployment easier *and* allows you to make incremental bug fixes ( plus re-deploy ) *AND* offers integration into SVN (*checkout tag with such and such value and pull that out and then take that content and send it over to foobar.domain.com pointing to database rorisgreat_development ).

http://manuals.rubyonrails.com/read/book/17

3. Ultimately this model of interface is what I have adopted for my WordPress install. I have installed it locally, mangle with Textmate and do the endless reloads locally ( with SVN on the dir ) and THEN i deploy remotely. While I have no capistrano, all my work is in a theme so it's not too painful to tar up that and upload it.

Re: Dumping OS X

Steven G. Harms — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:58:30 -0000

chmod fooled steven

Re: UFC Bought Pride !!!

Steven G. Harms — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:48:19 -0000

Totall wussies.

Neither group of fighters could handle the mastery of the octagon that is Rex Kwon Do!

Actually, next time you're in Mountain View you should head by Ryowa and watch Pride fighting with a Ryowa ramen. It's one of the more interesting dining experiences I've had, watching Bobby Stapp use some unknown Japanese kid's head as a speedbag against the top rope.

Re: Theme Envy

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:36:13 -0000

Another example of subtraction.com-ese derivation...

Re: Cultural Dissonance: Why Hip-Hop Customer Service Is Crap

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:46:11 -0000

I'm absolutely baffled that you had so few people take your side in this matter. Let me do so.

The modern service industry has abused us, one and all, from actually expecting service, let alone service with a smile. Heck, it's a strange sort of blame the victim Stockholm syndrome going on in the dectractors' posts.

1. Let's remember that this "fellow with poor emotional/psychological state" would be this "fellow emotional/psychological state and NO FREAKING JOB" if it weren't for people like Mr. Miessler patronizing his establishment. He has a vested interest in Miessler not going to Seattle's Best or It's a Grind or the Segafredo next door.

2. The individual is not acting as an individual here. He's acting as an extension of a shared stock trust. Miessler asserting X or Y about him outside of his capacity as a worker would be some sort of sociopathy ( person as means to an end ). This person was working in which they are paid to suborn their right to end versus means by their employer.

You try keeping a job in a place where you're not meeting your customer's expectation of service in corporate america. Enjoy your severance.

3. (@bea) The moment you step into your workplace, you are signing into a cultural institution. You can't join the marines without a haircut, you can't make it on Wall Street without a suit, and you can't be a legitimate master programmer without a pair of flip-flops and a coffee-stained copy of the K&R. It's just the rules. Some of us have environments where blue suits are required, others have places where jeans and iPod are the norm, and yet others have to wear aprons and silly hats. Don't like the regulations? Change your situation. Go to school, save your pennies, etc.

An institution doesn't OWN you, they OWN your labor to which they assign a valuation called your pay-rate. Do they pay you out of goodness and love of fluffy clouds and rainbows?

4. Miessler doesn't care per se about the "Starbucks brand asset". If he did, he'd be working for them in Seattle. Rather, a company's brand is an emissary of the culture of the brand: Norah Jones, pseudo-Deco paintings, a standard calibre of coffee, etc. Employees are ambassadors of the brand and the employer / manager has the right to expect and has spent money training the employee to be a GOOD ambassador of that brand.

IF through the culture of the region said employee chooses to ignore this directive or to cop attitude with the patron, it's within the patron's every right to complain.

4. All customers are, par definition, sociopaths, they are all driven to get their needs satisfied in the marketplace using market means ( namely currency ). Historically the choice of preference for sociopaths has been murder and theft, Miessler has simply asserted that the store must delivery on the social interaction promised by the brand's marketing assets. This is actually a pretty fair trade as some of the attitude I've gotten from service staff would have merited a running through not more than 2 centuries ago.

Re: Proof That White People Aren’t Superior

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:37:36 -0000

This is Fred Phelps' family in Kansas City. I saw a film about them during SXSW called "Fall from Grace". Very interesting, very well put together film as well.

Re: Cultural Dissonance: Why Hip-Hop Customer Service Is Crap

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:16:36 -0000

Incidentally, I think I would take Urkel's advice on being ultra-smooth...

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0772137/Ss/07721..., Jaleel

Re: A Logical Approach To Gun Laws

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:51:20 -0000

Here's an interesting notion.

In the UK gentlemen ( i.e. people of a certain class ) were allowed to carry short swords both on the theory that a boatload of Frenchman ( or worse, irate Welshmen! ) might invade the grounds *and* so that they could proceed to massacre each other ( which has proven quite favorable to the mercantile classes since the Tudors onward ).

This all worked out very well for those in power as those in power were those in the government and as it was a homogeneous cultural / economic group, it was fine for that bastard from Wessex to have a sword on him as did that scum from Sussex. At the end of the day, dealing with each other was a known quantity. And, as long as it was the nobility that had the weapons, the worst of activities would be hurting one another.

The key take away is "the "right people" have the cutting edge weaponry of the time on their person ( a Spanish rapier being the ne plus ultra ).

Could I see, today, "the right people" sporting Glocks or my beloved Sig-Sauer .325? Yes.

Then the question is, what is the procedure for determining "right people".

Is Yao Ming right people? Nope, fur-nur.

Is Jay-Z right people?

Is Dick Cheney, ur, scratch that one.

Nick Nolte, Tom Cruise, who? How to apply a criterion unilaterally and fairly as we no longer live in an oligarchaic ( uh, in theory anyway ) society?

Most people arguing your very good point of view will inevitably come to the conclusion: "People like me should have the ability to carry, because I'm responsible and good."

I would feel much better knowing that the man in the Armani suit stepping out of the M5 with the Patek Philippe glancing in the sun had a .9mm versus some guy with crazy hair, three days beard growth mumbling to himself was packing a .44.

So while I like approach, i think our access to handguns is far too democratic in this country. Were guns like 10K each and strictly regulated ( see Spanish Rapiers and Fencing knowledge ), then it might be possible ( although again, this uses the economic machinery of class: only people of certain earning power are likely to get their hands on the weapon: i.e. M5 guy, not Crazy Dodge-dude ).

If you could wed expense and privilege you might be able to price out "wrong people".

But then you say, what about upstanding citizens in dangerous areas ( I recall a great arcticle about a grandmother in Hunter's Point who could drop people from 100 yards { "You know what neighborhood this is." } )? Naturally you would say, yes they should have access.

But then that blows the whole scheme ( again ). In absence of a way to implement that doesn't inhibit people with need and that doesn't naturally impose some sort of classist filter, I don't see a way for practical implementation.

That said, here in Texas I've seen plenty of shotguns on plenty of trucks, and I daresay it makes people drive just a little bit nicer.

Re: A Logical Approach To Gun Laws

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:23:52 -0000

Dan,

There is only one taboo in the world of insurance actuaries: Foretelling One's Own Death

( On Actuaries and their Tatoos: _The Areas of my Expertise_ by John Hodgman )

Re: Grassroots Atheist Video

Steven G. Harms — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:22:21 -0000

Helps that she's attractive.

Re: Vulnerability Management Without Asset Management, Isn’t

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 09 May 2007 12:09:34 -0000

You talk about security risk in these systems, but it bears underscoring that there is some compelling disaster looming around unknown assets using unlicensed software.

We're true up on our photoshop licenses.....

( until you discover that your Windows shop actually has a hidden department of Macs running CS 3 that one guy got from a Spammy Re-seller? )

Re: The Best Thing I’ve Ever Seen On YouTube

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 09 May 2007 12:24:44 -0000

I was thinking that this DJ was an angel.

Think about it.

He's dropped unceremoniously from the sky....
His tools of the craft follow the same....
He alters the deterministic machinery of a situation...?

It's basically a device for touring the mind of God, pardon such language on an atheist site.

First you're introduced to the determinism ( the butterfly effect ), that you can skew primary events, but that they have to play out ( i.e. no teleporting the gangsters to Tibet, etc. ) and then the play is run back and forth and back and forth.

I thought that the broken doll at the end should have been left broken. In the world where great calamities are avoided, invariably a few tiny things might fall apart and we, as humans, must learn to accept a bit of loss as the side effect of meddling supernatural agents making the world in a macro sense, better.

Re: My Future: The Semantic Web and RDF

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 29 May 2007 12:35:11 -0000

This post has a lot of words.

Re: How I Became An Atheist

Steven G. Harms — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:02:03 -0000

I very much enjoyed these two posts. They were very well put together and I very much liked the narrative about being in the MidEast.

Re: I Love The Internet

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:11:17 -0000

At SXSW there's a rule called "the rule of two feet": if you get the feeling that where you are is worthless, get going to where it is. It's a bit unnerving for panelists, but no one's sense of social awkwardness should keep you from hearing the right things or meeting the right people. Period.

At most panels, I could tell within

Re: So I’m Trying To Learn How To Drink Beer

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:23:15 -0000

Growing up in Texas i cut my teeth on Budweiser
- Not recommended, but a bud light is great when eating nachos at a drag race

Mexican
- Everyone loves mexican food, add a beer to it. I like Negra Modelo because it's smoooooooove. Especially c-c-c-chuoooold. With a lime.

I learnt my pilsners in Holland and I drank...untold rivers worth
- Grolsch

Beer, real beer,
- Duvel ( belgium )
- Being summer, Witbier ( Hoegaarden ) with lime in a tall glass is da shizzle.

As far as teas go

Earl Gray, HOT! ( with honey )

Re: Us In Cali

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:20:28 -0000

Anchor steam, brewed in my old 'hood: Potrero Hill.

That's a really, really bitter ass-kicker. Scandinavians love it.

I was going to say that the funny thing about this picture, from a blog-reader perspective, is that you can say: "And she was still with me after that Bimbo post! Definitely a keeper!"

Re: The Bimbo and The Caveman II

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:13:24 -0000

Can you post a diff :) ?

Re: Introducing Paul Potts: Try Not To Cry

Steven G. Harms — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:21:18 -0000

Is a holiday at the oper-ah
Where people all dress in black
A holiday at the oper-ah
Where you'll be a-taken back!

Paul Potts, Paul Potts, Paul Potts, Paul Potts,etc.

...with apologies to the Dead Kenneds.

Re: The Life or Death of Harry Potter

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:37:37 -0000

Might I point out that this is really the primary sin of Anakin Skywalker as well, the refusal to accept the fact that, as Heraclitus said:

It's name is bios but its work is death. That is, it's name is life but its work is death ( or, as Greek had no diacritical mark at that time, it could have meant: "Its name is the bow, and its work is death" - Heraclitus ruled )

The primary rule of The Force was that life creates it and that when life ends, it goes back to the force. By seeking to manipulate the symbiosis between The Force and the mitichloriens ( groan ), Anakin committed the ultimate sin under creation: Refusal to accept its fleeting endurance ( see: Buddhism, see: "The Fountain", see: Aristotle "Generation and Corruption")

Incidentally, shouldn't the plural of horcrux be horcruces?

HP SPOILER -- STOP READING MY COMMENT NOW

I think Harry is the last Horcrux. To rebalance yin and yang he'll have to die nobly to destroy the last horcrux (see: Terminator). It explains the 'charmed' interaction between V'mort and himself.

Re: New Laptop: 15″MacBook Pro

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:40:15 -0000

I'm loving mine, as you well know.

@brad: Battery, watching a DVD on battery 90 minutes.

Working with not too much disk churn ~ 3.5 hours last time I paid close attention. It's not a huge battery saver, but still a ton better than my 03 PowerBook G4.

I think that VMWare Fusion is the bees knees. I don't have any feeling that //s will be around 18 months from now.

Re: Theme Changes II (Subversion Issues)

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:40:49 -0000

Much love kemosabe, sorting out the CSS around Wordpress themes is something to make you add PHP back on your résumé.

Re: Knife

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:14:25 -0000

What's up with the knife? Need it for splicing cable?

Re: Episteme

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:40:34 -0000

I don't know how I missed this post, but it is an excellent one.

I looked the linked article though, and think that it would be beneficial to structure some of these points in such a way that show a progression of thoughts. For example, to attack Kierkergaard's Either/Or you would really like to have Hegel's Phenomenology down, which requires Critique of Pure Reason, which is a result of Berkeley + Descartes + Malabranche.....

And for what it's worth for Descartes' Meditations not to be there is a glaring omission.

For the record, Rand never said anything interesting that Aristotle or Nietzsche didn't say before she did ( as much as she makes a big noise about NOT being a Nietzschean ). And don't try to convince me she has a coherent moral theory either, I know what happened after a certain heiress scratched her marble fireplace.

Re: Episteme

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:53:33 -0000

BTW. Buy hardback.

Re: Almost a Shibboleth

Steven G. Harms — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:57:33 -0000

It's amazing how many non-symbolic things have secret languages.

Standards, and arms obviously have a symbolic language, but in the 17th-18th century curio cabinets had a language about how the arranger saw the world, so too libraries and gardens. Imagine that! Your GTD filing is an artifact of how you organize the world ( time based, it would seem ) versus some other filing system.

Re: Dave Winer and the Gnomedex Incident

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:19:50 -0000

I'm in no way familiar with this story, but for party A ( usually a party of Jewish or NYC heritage ) to call party B a "mensch" ( indeed Yiddish aka Hebrew+German for man ) is to assert a certain level of benevolence, of rising above it all. Of being a swell guy.

"To show that there were no hard feelings he sent Party A a donkey, saying that a memento of his jackassery was appropriate."
"[Laughing] What a mensch!"

I'm probably mangling some of the subtler parts of the word but it's something to note.

Re: Redefining the Goal of Teaching

Steven G. Harms — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:48:07 -0000

I'm reminded of Paul Graham's essays on "Why Nerds are Unpopular" where he asserts the reason public schooling exists is mainly out of an optimization of the GDP problem: by liberating parents from kid management duty 40 hours a week * 2, they can grow the GDP.

Re: I’ve Just Discovered Constructive Epistemeology

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:04:24 -0000

I consider it a great joy when you discover a thought that you have thought has already been considered, expressed, and, perhaps, more fully expressed elsewhere in history.

I recall "re-discovering" Buddhism and what I would call Nietzsche-ism. Realizing that attacking want and praising beauty were keys to happiness was quite affirming that various paths were the right ones.

Re: Dumping Firefox. Going to Safari.

Steven G. Harms — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:11:15 -0000

I actually tried going the FF route post-SXSW ( you coming ? ), and I find the lack of

type-ahead find
firebug

To be real dealbreakers. The former as it's incredibly freaking handy, and the latter because I don't own an Adobe suite ( as i write my web code by hand ).

Has anyone solved these?

Re: Glen Danzig Does Reading Rainbow

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:24:39 -0000

Item the first: Is he wearing a choker? Uh...

Item the second: These aren't very interesting from the Occult perspective.

It's so downstream from true esoterica that it's really hard to be impressed or bowled over. If he'd had a book on sacred geometries, The Cult of Mithras, or, hell, had he made a 1st edition Crowley the showpiece ( he surely has the cash, right? ) I might have been impressed.

His "library" rates somewhere in the vicinity of the Tower Records "Occult" section: a section that I usually passed en route to the Taschen art books :-D

Re: The Math and Philosophy Behind Tool’s Lateralus

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:51:09 -0000

Tool definitely like to work with the Hindu-influenced mystical bend. The work of Alex Gray ( see: Lateralus art work ) is a key visual component. I also heard that Lateralus can be listened to in a way such that it's complementary to moving energy through the 7 primary chakra centers. The order is:

13,6,7,5,8,4,9,3,10,2,11,1,12,13

You can tie this numerical projection to the Qabbalah, to the Fib sequence, to nucleotide ordering, to AI decision trees, to fractals, to construction Golden sections.

It's something about φ which reaches deep within the collective unconscious, the noumenal mind (Kantian condition of experience?), or our deep programming.

Re: Economics as the Solution to Cognitive Dissonance

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:04:47 -0000

Here's a thought about economics as a science.

When was the last time that you heard an economist say " we were wrong on that point ".

:: crickets ::

There's always some "unforeseen boundary condition" or "except well this one time" that comes up so very, very often in economist's explanations of why their theory's predictive power was simply wrong.

Unlike science where the wrong thing gets disowned from time to time, economics seems to behave more like a religion ( and thus, perhaps, the immunity to cognitive dissonance ), when what's predicted fails there's always an explanation.

Any study where your theory lacks predictive power that is routinely incorrect should not dance under the name "science". Nota bene, few schools include economics in the college of natural science - for this reason?

Re: I’m Waiting for Google’s Version of Facebook

Steven G. Harms — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:19:17 -0000

Orkut is still trapped in the friendster era, which is really a shame because it had an excellent userbase in the months after its beta release.

I'm hoping they just use Orkut as a learning experience, and then do a migration over to the superior technology ( i.e. Yahoo Photos -> Flickr, Orkut -> Goobook(?) ).

Re: Dexter: Thinly Veiled Societal Sickness

Steven G. Harms — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:23:54 -0000

America loves a vigilante, many of our greatest folk legends are about that ( for the record the US loves a vigilante, Australia a thief ).

Next time you walk through SoMA in San Francisco realize that many of the streets' names come from the early civic leaders of the city by the bay: that is, vigilante squad organizers.

See: The Barbary Coast by H. Asbury.

Re: Pedantic

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:00:16 -0000

I was worried we were going to learn how to pronounce DOS for the next post ;)

Re: Hidden Leopard Features: Mail.app IMAP IDLE Support [Screenshot]

Steven G. Harms — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:33:56 -0000

Did you do the in-place upgrade or did you do the clean slate re-install?

Re: [happy.reddit.com] The Most-Needed Subreddit

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:36:36 -0000

You'e right, reddit needs to lighten the fuck up.

I think that may be the source of the whole pic onslaught. People are just sick of Redding being an absolute downer.

Re: The Best Drummer

Steven G. Harms — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:12:38 -0000

No one touches Neil Peart. That's un-American....er, Canadian.

Although a lot of my friends like Terry Bozzio.

Re: “In Convinces”

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:08:44 -0000

"In Convinces" is actually an ancient Latin formation.

"in" meaning "in" or "among".

"convinces" is of course the 2nd-person, present indicative future of "to win with".

So the sign is stating that if you are there by means of having won something then you should talk to the front desk! Perhaps your fiancée missed out on a great prize! She should drive back!

Re: Dumping Intense Debate

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:05:56 -0000

Which means the regular old peanut gallery will post again!

BTW. You may want to take div#sidebar < div#container < body < html 's width towards 130px from 160 px. The ul dots are getting into the comment field ( you may have made that tweak for the ID engine? ).

steven

Re: I’m Calling The 2008 Election

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:52:52 -0000

I don't see Huckabee making it past the primaries. Rumour round Houston ( when I was there over the holidays ) is that if he gets too powerful against the candidates the RNC want out, there's a few matters related to his association with Tom DeLay which will knock him out.

Rudy, well, I think his funding mishaps and Mistress-O-Rama will knock him out in the primaries with the values voters.

I think that it's a Romney / Huckabee battle and I think Romney ( being from Taxachusetts ) has a chance of spoiling enough centrist Democratic votes that the smart money's on him.

...As for the other side....

Romney running ( mormonism aside ) as a craven, do whatever-saywhatever would be an antipode to do- whatever-saywhatever Hillary. I'm going to assume that Obama's lack of cinching a single early primary will throw him out.

So there you have it, Mitt vs. Hill. Double consonant battle royale.

And the winner....I'm gonna give it to Hillary by a nose. A hawkish-un-committed-to-out-of-Iraq nose, but still, a nose.

Re: Serpenticus

Steven G. Harms — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:45:54 -0000

And this entire post is dedicated to the being Serpentor.

Re: Mitch Fatel

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:48:47 -0000

He was good but it was no

"A salad is a sandwich ...some assembly required.

Re: Jason Microwaved Coffee

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:18:41 -0000

I don't think a fellow should be mocked for this. It's such a sad thing, you go out for coffee and you're all stoked to enjoy it, pipin' hot and then the phone rings, or a user materializes, or a server croaks and then the next thing you know your coffee is cold.

That hot jolt, that game of not searing your tastebuds, all for note ( and if you went out for it, a substantial drain on the coffers! ). The best you can do is micro it. Micro! Such a pale ghost of the goodness you had expected.

I hope the poor fellow got to enjoy a nice fresh one later.

Re: Email Authentication (SPF)

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:23:28 -0000

Tough call on this one. I mind a fairly large mail system and I doubt that we would ever want to move to using DKIM as a 'reject' ruleset ( I'm more in the Yahoo-Cisco DKIM vs. Microsoft SPF camp, but all protocols of this nature are an improvement ).

I think there are some vendors out there that provide exceedingly good reputation blacklists -- but who wants to wager that that one critical client's email just happens to run afoul of the filter?

As such I think the most common implementation will be rulesets which respond to the level of failure by injecting an X-header, altering the subject or setting some other flag. Based on that flag big box mail architecture systems ( notes, exchange ) can alter the display to signify the level of failure.

Deciding to write a local rule to do a deletion should be up to the user.

I think that may be a good rule of mail systems administration in large organizations: Only users have the power to write autodelete rules.

Re: Hypocrisy

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:33:04 -0000

I demand you remove this blasphemous image of the Prophet.

Re: God is TextMate-Like

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:27:23 -0000

Using all of my modifier keys in finger twisting contortions?

I think you're mistanken, God wrote the world in LISP:

http://www.prometheus-music.com/audio/eternalflame.mp3

Re: What’s a Cooler Name: Magnus or Thor?

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:28:44 -0000

What about Ragnar?

Ragnar Magnus Thorssen

Thanks be to the Swedish patronomic system.

sgh

Re: An Atheist Debate Reference

Steven G. Harms — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:36:31 -0000

Funny you should mention this, Lauren and I saw Dawkins at UT Wednesday night and he was his usual brilliant self.

Re: Rijndael is Pronounced “Rhine Dahl”

Steven G. Harms — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:47:31 -0000

The trouble with that this name is that it features two exclusively Dutch dipthongs: first the ĳ. First this letter nota bene is not i+j, but a ligature.

This dipthong is pronounced "ay" and denotes the Dutch "lange ĳ". Frequently, in handwriting, this is shortened to "ȳ" or with an umlaut. The macron or umlaut serve to make this glyph distinct from the Greek y (y-griega in Spanish or y-Grec in French).

The æ, being the second dipthong, is particularly difficult. Pronounce the "a" in the English "pal" with an extended length in the a. Then allow your throat to "close in". You may get closer to the right feel by working your adam's apple lower.

As a result the closing "l" will occur by touching the tip of your tongue to your front teeth, making a very soft "l" sound.

Dutch is the missing link between Anglo-Saxon and modern English.

Re: Rijndael is Pronounced “Rhine Dahl”

Steven G. Harms — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:48:00 -0000

Boo my unicode glyphs are monkey'd.

Re: Typography Check

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:42:03 -0000

It definitely looks like you did some line-height changing in the right sidebar, that's really nice.

Have you thought about using a glyph for your li tags, instead of the Milk-Duds?

I checked out Bimbo/Caveman and I think the ads are munching up the text flow.

Re: Typography Check

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:33:13 -0000

Regrettably on FF on Win, the comments box is intersecting with the bullets. I can fix this in firebug by changing the cols to 67 ( 65 is better i think for making your math easier ).

</li>
<li>

Re: Glyph

</li>
</ol>

a. Your smiling face is the only one that really works for me, but...
b. Any wide glyph in the right pane may require sucking in on the right for your main pane. This may be a gigantic pain (NPI), so you may prefer to let the right pane out slightly if you're picking a larger glyph.

To ease pain, a small glyph is preferable, something about the width of the small circle bullet.

c.
i. Minus (boring)
ii. Leafy thing ( too list apart, but nice )
iii. border-left and border-top to make a raised box ( too busy, esp. with all the text )
iv. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_sign ?
v. Typographic dagger
vi. Maybe you have to stick with the classic here?
v. Zen: No bullet.

Perhaps increase gap size between them and drop the bullet altogether?

All of those are contained in div#readerpublishermodule0 so you could spec. your paddings there without worrying about a change to the a style having weird effects.

Just ideas, play with as you see fit :)

Sorry to make your life more hassle ;)

sgh

Re: What I Want to See in iPhone 2.0

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:18:09 -0000

Here's a basic one: 3G.

Is that a done deal now?

Another: Dvorak Keyboard :)

Re: The Best Way For a Regular Person to Save the World

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:58:18 -0000

I believe this is the plot of Moore's "The Watchmen" - roughly.

Re: Hang Drums: I Need Some of These

Steven G. Harms — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:20:43 -0000

It sounds a lot like Radiohead's work on "Kid A".

Re: Signing with Initials

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:26:48 -0000

DM is better because he thinks you are either DangerMouse or DungeonMaster: either of which are inexpressably cool ( especially with the D&D 4.0 release later this month ).

But to address the question there are indeed different standards of communication

Hacker
My name's in the from field, my email address is in the from field, what's the point of salutation? Just send the message and be done. Think of all the precious bits you slaughter with you antiquated formality (Lenin would have loved high-tech).

Hacker trying to convince someone
Adopt the formalities of Dear Blank / ...Thomas J. Hacker

Manager
All formalities, all the time, unless talking to staff and using the non-countable address "Team:".

Middle-Manager
Manager + Themed Graphic Stationary

Senior Manager
Middle-Manager plus photo in header bar

Engineering Manager
See Hacker

CEO
Someone else writes my emails for me.

Re: Signing with Initials

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:27:25 -0000

Agggggghhh. Need preview function for comments.

Re: Delicious Library

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:56:48 -0000

Will Shipley's blog is pretty good too: “Call Me Fishmeal”. He writes a bit about his OCD, a lot about Cocoa, and a some more about design.

Re: Hacking and Grinding: The Balance Between Passion and Self Control

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:24:07 -0000

The grinders surely do have the exotic sex life—for what is more essential to the sexy than control?

Re: The Logical Solution to the Civil Union vs. Marriage Debate

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:33:22 -0000

I used to live in The Netherlands and here's a sight i saw, weighted towards the summer and late spring.

Old-style fancy cars ( Duisenberg, Rolls ) with paper adornments is parked on the sidewalk. A happy couple exits the door, both in beautiful rainment: he in gray top-hat ( occasionally with tails ) or suit; she, in a lovely white gown, or a fashionable dress. Their families cheer them as they enter the car and drive off.

Now, to your point, the building they exited? The Raadhuis, the city hall.

Subsequently the bridal couple were welcomed to take the civic license and have a ceremony performed at their church, but that was not the state's business.

Another parallel may also be seen in the difference between the King's Courts and the Ecclesiastical courts in Plantagenet–Tudor span of English history. Ultimately the amicable divide prevailed: the state could deprive you of liberty or lucre, but could not damn you; the ecclesiastical courts could damn you, but couldn't imprison or fine you ( unless you bought into their flim-flam and lent them that authority, not unlike a dominatrix, curiously ).

Re: Initial iPhone 3G and Software 2.0 Experiences and Impressions

Steven G. Harms — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:40:46 -0000

Can i remap the keyboard to dvorak?

Re: Agriculture Ruined the World

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:52:53 -0000

This argument was made much more cogently in Guns, Germs, and Steel.

Re: Why I Carry A Gun: A Personal Anecdote

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:01:03 -0000

So, for the peanut gallery, what are you packing these–a–days?

Re: Very Poor Rhetoric on Race

Steven G. Harms — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:39:38 -0000

Derek,

Please qualify “helping hand”.

Re: Very Poor Rhetoric on Race

Steven G. Harms — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:11:46 -0000

Derek,

Funny, women seem to have done it just fine?

Steven

Re: Indulgence as God

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:43:03 -0000

http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html

Re: Indulgence as God

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:44:07 -0000

Slightly less religulous:

http://www.swarthmore.edu/~apreset1/docs/if.html

Re: Take From Me and Give to Him: A New Perspective on Prayer

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:53:38 -0000

Uhm, here's an idea. Why don't you get up and go volunteer, that's doing God's work without His having to kick one in the ass to do it?

Re: Fyodor Runs Ubuntu

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:17:09 -0000

Maybe when you can better about yourself becasue you can pwn anyone's box you don't need that vague “sense of more superior to everyone” that running a Mac provides.

Re: The Verdict on iPhone Update 2.0.2

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:40:21 -0000

There's something about those warped wooden cabinets and 1978 linoleum that makes Bay apartments special isn't there ;)

Re: Facebook Privacy Violation: Secret Group Activity is Public!

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:26:05 -0000

What?! Facebook rides roughshod over users' sense of privacy like Alberto Gonzales in a Caterpillar? Color me shocked.

<cite>
We may provide information to service providers to help us bring you the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email updates about Facebook, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to process payments for products or services, to offer an online job application process, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links).
</cite><sup>1</sup>

I see the FB Kool-Aid and I will have to pass, thankyouverymuch.

Footnote:
<ol>
<li>http://www.facebook.com/policy.php</li>
</ol>

Re: but she's a girl... » Ceremonial

Steven G. Harms — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:00:17 -0000

Hey bsag,

You often do this thing where you make <sup>superscripts<sup> and then link them to a footnote below.

When I do this it is pretty typing–intensive, do you have an automated way that you're doing this?

Footnotes

<ol>
<li>SuperscriptSuperscript reference [BACK]</li>
</ol>

Re: The BMW 335i’s Power Is Underrated

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:02:07 -0000

I loved my BMW while I had it. You'll definitely appreciate going from to a 33x versus a 32x, the difference is sizable and your very handy dynometer graphic shows what the Bavarian experience is.

Re: More On Incentives

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:25:47 -0000

Re: The Great Purge

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:42:00 -0000

I thought you were in NYC? Did you lug all your stuff w/ you, or are you back home ( or did I miss a post ? ).

Re: Playing With My Wii

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:45:59 -0000

Re: The Real Reason MacWorld Didn’t Have Anything About Leopard

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:49:17 -0000

Re: Security + Language = Shibboleth

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 12:46:59 -0000

Re: Flattered

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:09:28 -0000

Re: I Live In Constant Fear Of Doing Things Inefficiently

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:38:57 -0000

Re: I Live In Constant Fear Of Doing Things Inefficiently

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:07:34 -0000

Re: The Will To Power

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:05:20 -0000

Re: Language: Ending With A Preposition

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:38:13 -0000

This is the sort of English which I will not put_up_with (the infinitive of the phrasal verb).

Re: Tornadoes

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 16:43:04 -0000

The sky was blacker than a funeral suit
Hotter than a depot stove
Hide in the cellar
Here comes Amarillo, blowin up the road.

You guy hail stones big as hen eggs boys
clouds as green can be
Old Mother Nature's raisin' hell
She parked a pickup in a tree

Tornado Time in Texas, take the pain right offa your barn
Tornado time in Texas, blow the tattoo offa your arm.

Guy Clark : "Tornado time in Texas" :: Workbench Songs

Re: Cheerleaders Make The Best Saleswomen

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:32:09 -0000

Re: Love

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:58:55 -0000

Re: I Used To Like My Own Site Design

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 05:47:35 -0000

Re: Perhaps The Most Important Reason Cannabis Should Be Legal

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:36:25 -0000

The correlate to insight of this variety is: "Once the phone rings, hang up." .

Incidentally someone else agrees with that point of view too...

http://archive.salon.com/letters/daily/2000/07/...

Re: RoR: Mac + Textmate + SSHfs = Remote Development

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:34:37 -0000

Re: Dumping OS X

Steven G. Harms — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 17:58:30 -0000

chmod fooled steven

Re: UFC Bought Pride !!!

Steven G. Harms — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:48:19 -0000

Re: Theme Envy

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:36:13 -0000

Another example of subtraction.com-ese derivation...

Re: Cultural Dissonance: Why Hip-Hop Customer Service Is Crap

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 16:46:11 -0000

Re: Proof That White People Aren’t Superior

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:37:36 -0000

This is Fred Phelps' family in Kansas City. I saw a film about them during SXSW called "Fall from Grace". Very interesting, very well put together film as well.

Re: Cultural Dissonance: Why Hip-Hop Customer Service Is Crap

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:16:36 -0000

Incidentally, I think I would take Urkel's advice on being ultra-smooth...

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0772137/Ss/07721..., Jaleel

Re: A Logical Approach To Gun Laws

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:51:20 -0000

Re: A Logical Approach To Gun Laws

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:23:52 -0000

Dan,

There is only one taboo in the world of insurance actuaries: Foretelling One's Own Death

( On Actuaries and their Tatoos: _The Areas of my Expertise_ by John Hodgman )

Re: Grassroots Atheist Video

Steven G. Harms — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 02:22:21 -0000

Helps that she's attractive.

Re: Vulnerability Management Without Asset Management, Isn’t

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 09 May 2007 12:09:34 -0000

Re: The Best Thing I’ve Ever Seen On YouTube

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 09 May 2007 12:24:44 -0000

Re: My Future: The Semantic Web and RDF

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 29 May 2007 12:35:11 -0000

This post has a lot of words.

Re: How I Became An Atheist

Steven G. Harms — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 18:02:03 -0000

I very much enjoyed these two posts. They were very well put together and I very much liked the narrative about being in the MidEast.

Re: I Love The Internet

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:11:17 -0000

Re: So I’m Trying To Learn How To Drink Beer

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:23:15 -0000

Re: Us In Cali

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:20:28 -0000

Re: The Bimbo and The Caveman II

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:13:24 -0000

Can you post a diff :) ?

Re: Introducing Paul Potts: Try Not To Cry

Steven G. Harms — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:21:18 -0000

Is a holiday at the oper-ah
Where people all dress in black
A holiday at the oper-ah
Where you'll be a-taken back!

Paul Potts, Paul Potts, Paul Potts, Paul Potts,etc.

...with apologies to the Dead Kenneds.

Re: The Life or Death of Harry Potter

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:37:37 -0000

Re: New Laptop: 15″MacBook Pro

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 06:40:15 -0000

Re: Theme Changes II (Subversion Issues)

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:40:49 -0000

Much love kemosabe, sorting out the CSS around Wordpress themes is something to make you add PHP back on your résumé.

Re: Knife

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:14:25 -0000

What's up with the knife? Need it for splicing cable?

Re: Episteme

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:40:34 -0000

Re: Episteme

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 15:53:33 -0000

BTW. Buy hardback.

Re: Almost a Shibboleth

Steven G. Harms — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:57:33 -0000

Re: Dave Winer and the Gnomedex Incident

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:19:50 -0000

Re: Redefining the Goal of Teaching

Steven G. Harms — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 19:48:07 -0000

Re: I’ve Just Discovered Constructive Epistemeology

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 07:04:24 -0000

Re: Dumping Firefox. Going to Safari.

Steven G. Harms — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 01:11:15 -0000

Re: Glen Danzig Does Reading Rainbow

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:24:39 -0000

Re: The Math and Philosophy Behind Tool’s Lateralus

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:51:09 -0000

Re: Economics as the Solution to Cognitive Dissonance

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:04:47 -0000

Here's a thought about economics as a science.

When was the last time that you heard an economist say " we were wrong on that point ".

:: crickets ::

Re: I’m Waiting for Google’s Version of Facebook

Steven G. Harms — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:19:17 -0000

Orkut is still trapped in the friendster era, which is really a shame because it had an excellent userbase in the months after its beta release.

I'm hoping they just use Orkut as a learning experience, and then do a migration over to the superior technology ( i.e. Yahoo Photos -> Flickr, Orkut -> Goobook(?) ).

Re: Dexter: Thinly Veiled Societal Sickness

Steven G. Harms — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:23:54 -0000

America loves a vigilante, many of our greatest folk legends are about that ( for the record the US loves a vigilante, Australia a thief ).

Next time you walk through SoMA in San Francisco realize that many of the streets' names come from the early civic leaders of the city by the bay: that is, vigilante squad organizers.

See: The Barbary Coast by H. Asbury.

Re: Pedantic

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:00:16 -0000

I was worried we were going to learn how to pronounce DOS for the next post ;)

Re: Hidden Leopard Features: Mail.app IMAP IDLE Support [Screenshot]

Steven G. Harms — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:33:56 -0000

Did you do the in-place upgrade or did you do the clean slate re-install?

Re: [happy.reddit.com] The Most-Needed Subreddit

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:36:36 -0000

You'e right, reddit needs to lighten the fuck up.

I think that may be the source of the whole pic onslaught. People are just sick of Redding being an absolute downer.

Re: The Best Drummer

Steven G. Harms — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:12:38 -0000

No one touches Neil Peart. That's un-American....er, Canadian.

Although a lot of my friends like Terry Bozzio.

Re: “In Convinces”

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:08:44 -0000

"In Convinces" is actually an ancient Latin formation.

"in" meaning "in" or "among".

"convinces" is of course the 2nd-person, present indicative future of "to win with".

So the sign is stating that if you are there by means of having won something then you should talk to the front desk! Perhaps your fiancée missed out on a great prize! She should drive back!

Re: Dumping Intense Debate

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:05:56 -0000

Which means the regular old peanut gallery will post again!

steven

Re: I’m Calling The 2008 Election

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:52:52 -0000

Rudy, well, I think his funding mishaps and Mistress-O-Rama will knock him out in the primaries with the values voters.

I think that it's a Romney / Huckabee battle and I think Romney ( being from Taxachusetts ) has a chance of spoiling enough centrist Democratic votes that the smart money's on him.

...As for the other side....

So there you have it, Mitt vs. Hill. Double consonant battle royale.

And the winner....I'm gonna give it to Hillary by a nose. A hawkish-un-committed-to-out-of-Iraq nose, but still, a nose.

Re: Serpenticus

Steven G. Harms — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:45:54 -0000

And this entire post is dedicated to the being Serpentor.

Re: Mitch Fatel

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:48:47 -0000

He was good but it was no

"A salad is a sandwich ...some assembly required.

Re: Jason Microwaved Coffee

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:18:41 -0000

I hope the poor fellow got to enjoy a nice fresh one later.

Re: Email Authentication (SPF)

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:23:28 -0000

Deciding to write a local rule to do a deletion should be up to the user.

I think that may be a good rule of mail systems administration in large organizations: Only users have the power to write autodelete rules.

Re: Hypocrisy

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:33:04 -0000

I demand you remove this blasphemous image of the Prophet.

Re: God is TextMate-Like

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:27:23 -0000

Using all of my modifier keys in finger twisting contortions?

I think you're mistanken, God wrote the world in LISP:

http://www.prometheus-music.com/audio/eternalflame.mp3

Re: What’s a Cooler Name: Magnus or Thor?

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:28:44 -0000

What about Ragnar?

Ragnar Magnus Thorssen

Thanks be to the Swedish patronomic system.

sgh

Re: An Atheist Debate Reference

Steven G. Harms — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:36:31 -0000

Funny you should mention this, Lauren and I saw Dawkins at UT Wednesday night and he was his usual brilliant self.

Re: Rijndael is Pronounced “Rhine Dahl”

Steven G. Harms — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:47:31 -0000

The trouble with that this name is that it features two exclusively Dutch dipthongs: first the ĳ. First this letter nota bene is not i+j, but a ligature.

As a result the closing "l" will occur by touching the tip of your tongue to your front teeth, making a very soft "l" sound.

Dutch is the missing link between Anglo-Saxon and modern English.

Re: Rijndael is Pronounced “Rhine Dahl”

Steven G. Harms — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:48:00 -0000

Boo my unicode glyphs are monkey'd.

Re: Typography Check

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:42:03 -0000

It definitely looks like you did some line-height changing in the right sidebar, that's really nice.

Have you thought about using a glyph for your li tags, instead of the Milk-Duds?

I checked out Bimbo/Caveman and I think the ads are munching up the text flow.

Re: Typography Check

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:33:13 -0000

Regrettably on FF on Win, the comments box is intersecting with the bullets. I can fix this in firebug by changing the cols to 67 ( 65 is better i think for making your math easier ).

</li>
<li>

Re: Glyph

</li>
</ol>

To ease pain, a small glyph is preferable, something about the width of the small circle bullet.

Perhaps increase gap size between them and drop the bullet altogether?

All of those are contained in div#readerpublishermodule0 so you could spec. your paddings there without worrying about a change to the a style having weird effects.

Just ideas, play with as you see fit :)

Sorry to make your life more hassle ;)

sgh

Re: What I Want to See in iPhone 2.0

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:18:09 -0000

Here's a basic one: 3G.

Is that a done deal now?

Another: Dvorak Keyboard :)

Re: The Best Way For a Regular Person to Save the World

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:58:18 -0000

I believe this is the plot of Moore's "The Watchmen" - roughly.

Re: Hang Drums: I Need Some of These

Steven G. Harms — Sun, 25 May 2008 11:20:43 -0000

It sounds a lot like Radiohead's work on "Kid A".

Re: Signing with Initials

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:26:48 -0000

DM is better because he thinks you are either DangerMouse or DungeonMaster: either of which are inexpressably cool ( especially with the D&D 4.0 release later this month ).

But to address the question there are indeed different standards of communication

Hacker trying to convince someone
Adopt the formalities of Dear Blank / ...Thomas J. Hacker

Manager
All formalities, all the time, unless talking to staff and using the non-countable address "Team:".

Middle-Manager
Manager + Themed Graphic Stationary

Senior Manager
Middle-Manager plus photo in header bar

Engineering Manager
See Hacker

CEO
Someone else writes my emails for me.

Re: Signing with Initials

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:27:25 -0000

Agggggghhh. Need preview function for comments.

Re: Delicious Library

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:56:48 -0000

Will Shipley's blog is pretty good too: “Call Me Fishmeal”. He writes a bit about his OCD, a lot about Cocoa, and a some more about design.

Re: Hacking and Grinding: The Balance Between Passion and Self Control

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:24:07 -0000

The grinders surely do have the exotic sex life—for what is more essential to the sexy than control?

Re: The Logical Solution to the Civil Union vs. Marriage Debate

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:33:22 -0000

I used to live in The Netherlands and here's a sight i saw, weighted towards the summer and late spring.

Now, to your point, the building they exited? The Raadhuis, the city hall.

Subsequently the bridal couple were welcomed to take the civic license and have a ceremony performed at their church, but that was not the state's business.

Re: Initial iPhone 3G and Software 2.0 Experiences and Impressions

Steven G. Harms — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:40:46 -0000

Can i remap the keyboard to dvorak?

Re: Agriculture Ruined the World

Steven G. Harms — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:52:53 -0000

This argument was made much more cogently in Guns, Germs, and Steel.

Re: Why I Carry A Gun: A Personal Anecdote

Steven G. Harms — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:01:03 -0000

So, for the peanut gallery, what are you packing these–a–days?

Re: Very Poor Rhetoric on Race

Steven G. Harms — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:39:38 -0000

Derek,

Please qualify “helping hand”.

Re: Very Poor Rhetoric on Race

Steven G. Harms — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:11:46 -0000

Derek,

Funny, women seem to have done it just fine?

Steven

Re: Indulgence as God

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:43:03 -0000

http://www.terrybisson.com/meat.html

Re: Indulgence as God

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:44:07 -0000

Slightly less religulous:

http://www.swarthmore.edu/~apreset1/docs/if.html

Re: Take From Me and Give to Him: A New Perspective on Prayer

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:53:38 -0000

Uhm, here's an idea. Why don't you get up and go volunteer, that's doing God's work without His having to kick one in the ass to do it?

Re: Fyodor Runs Ubuntu

Steven G. Harms — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:17:09 -0000

Maybe when you can better about yourself becasue you can pwn anyone's box you don't need that vague “sense of more superior to everyone” that running a Mac provides.

Re: The Verdict on iPhone Update 2.0.2

Steven G. Harms — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:40:21 -0000

There's something about those warped wooden cabinets and 1978 linoleum that makes Bay apartments special isn't there ;)