August 2007
54 posts
shonk: @noncomposmentis A lot of the online phone books let you search by phone number. (via Twitter / shonk)
shonk: Damn you AT&T! (via Twitter / shonk)
Clay Shonkwiler: Being a bad TA is awesome. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Clay Shonkwiler: Back in Philly. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Clay Shonkwiler: Still hungover. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
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“I can’t remember what I was looking for, but I didn’t find it.”
– Me
Clay Shonkwiler: Translating .doc files into LaTeX sucks. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
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A Very Short History of Mathematics →
“Cauchy’s theorem is very important, but is much harder to prove now than it was when Gauss invented it.”
Clay Shonkwiler: I have to say, I have very mixed feelings about dailylit.com, which I’m trying out with Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Clay Shonkwiler: The question now becomes: can I write a paper and develop some classroom activities in the next three days? (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Clay Shonkwiler: I’m surprised that Office Depot actually carries fountain pen cartridges. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
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Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe →
“Welcome to Web War one.”
Clay Shonkwiler: What’s the deal with these Field Notes notebooks? Why is everybody so damned excited about them? (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Time and the Hour Running Through Rough Days →
It’s surprisingly difficult to figure out how many days have elapsed between two (relatively distant) dates, though the problem does admit a fairly simple algorithmic solution.
Clay Shonkwiler: It’s sort of disturbing how much satisfaction I derive from buying computer accessories. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
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“We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself...”
– H.L. Mencken
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Why didn’t the player’s union defend Michael Vick? →
Curt’s description: Writer inadvertently reveals the essence of the reductionist insanity at the heart of many “slippery slope” arguments. “If we don’t defend the indefensible, then how are we going to defend the…defensible?”
Clay Shonkwiler: Here’s hoping I put the right email address on that form. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Clay Shonkwiler: My visual brain is kicking my verbal brain’s ass. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Clay Shonkwiler: Mmm…delicious port. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Clay Shonkwiler: One of the best things about visiting my parents: being able to cook in a real kitchen. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Clay Shonkwiler: Oh, Pearl Street bar scene, you’re as inane as ever. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Clay Shonkwiler: And now, off to Colorado. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Clay Shonkwiler: Yep, I’m hating myself right now. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Clay Shonkwiler: I’m really going to hate myself in 5 hours when my alarm goes off. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Joint failure - The Boston Globe →
“The JCS lies beyond salvaging. Before you build a new house, you tear the old one down. For the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it’s wrecking-ball time. A chairman possessing vision, strategic insight, and integrity ought to be the first to acknowledge that.”
A failure in generalship →
“For the second time in a generation, the United States faces the prospect of defeat at the hands of an insurgency. … These debacles are not attributable to individual failures, but rather to a crisis in an entire institution: America’s general officer corps.”
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Clay Shonkwiler: Modular pictures! (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Blows Against the Empire →
“There are many books with unreliable narrators under the control of sane authors; [Valis] is the only one I know where a sane, reliable narrator (on the book’s own terms) is under the control of a clearly crazy author.”
Clay Shonkwiler: Damn you Ikea and your cheap French presses. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Clay Shonkwiler: @cederber No, but the difference is that I could see immediately that MySpace was going to suck, so I never even bothered to try it. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Clay Shonkwiler: Am I the only person that thinks Facebook seems like a cool idea but actually sort of sucks? (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
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Clay Shonkwiler: Fun fact: the OED’s first cited use of the term “counter-intuitive” is attributed to Noam Chomsky. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Clay Shonkwiler: The English language really needs a more profound antonym for “productive” than “unproductive”. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Dinosaurs with Jetpacks. →
Why sell DRM-free tracks, but not through iTunes? “[T]o prevent the DRM monopoly Apple currently has going. The one, ironically, that Universal and other music companies demanded of Apple in the first place. The one that Apple also wants out of.”
Clay Shonkwiler: Oh, preseason football, why must you tease me so? (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Clay Shonkwiler: Annoyed with Verizon. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Clay Shonkwiler: Working up the initiative to call Verizon. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer →
“While the Internet has produced some strange new job descriptions over the years, it is hard to think of any more surreal than that of the Chinese gold farmer.”
The Road to Clarity →
Very interesting story of the development of a new typeface for American highway signage.
Clay Shonkwiler: Finally finished drawing for a while. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Clay Shonkwiler: Most people probably wish Inkscape were more like Illustrator. If I ever get Illustrator, it’ll probably be just the opposite for me. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
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Clay Shonkwiler: Drawing pictures of 3-component links. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
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Clay Shonkwiler: Turns out I was trying to figure out the wrong thing. What I thought was 1 was actually 2, and I already knew 0 = 2. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
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Clay Shonkwiler: Trying to figure out why 1 = 0. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)
Clay Shonkwiler: Drinking Sam Adams’ Black Lager, which is really good. (via Twitter / Clay Shonkwiler)