There’s probably a Home Ec manual from the 50s that gives idiot bachelors like me useful domestic advice, like “the day you’re flying out of town is not the best day to clean out and defrost your refrigerator.” Unfortunately, I’ve never read that manual.
July 28, 2003 7:49 PM;
Tags: home, travel;
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I just wanted to give a shout out and thank you to Leigh for teaching me so much, so painlessly.
July 25, 2003 4:36 PM;
Tags: weblogging, xml;
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Apparently, this sound had been no ordinary urban muzak; a large chunk of my house had been stolen. Mysterious.
July 25, 2003 3:47 AM;
Tags: home, story;
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Minneapolis is the most literate city in the U.S.
July 21, 2003 1:07 AM;
Tags: books, reading, twin cities;
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There’s nothing more fun than deciphering other people’s code. Especially when their Javadoc is in German. Poorly spelled German.
July 18, 2003 6:24 PM;
Tags: german, java, localization, programming;
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What’s really great about this game is the care taken in making the single-player battles really interesting — even dramatic.
July 15, 2003 6:15 PM;
Tags: advance wars, games, story;
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By making images too busy and using too many colors, designers don’t just diminish the utility of their icons; they lose opportunities to distinguish their products from the rest of the market.
July 8, 2003 5:55 PM;
Tags: art, design, icons, software;
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On the fabulous radio show Crap From The Past, Ron Gerber just played a hard-house remix of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” by one DJ Russ Harris.
July 5, 2003 5:11 AM;
Tags: crap from the past, music, radio;
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