Tag: TODO: Split

Posts with several unrelated topics that I’m considering splitting into individual posts.

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Roomba Path (photo by SignalTheorist)

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  • Last night I learned that the Satellite Market near Disneyland is still there, but the Sputnik-style sign has been replaced. Old & new photos.
  • Side salad vs. fries study: Adding a healthier option caused people to choose the unhealthy option more often. It’s made me a lot more aware of what I order for lunch.
  • Spam apparently advertising speed bumps: “Women won’t hide their excitement when they see your bulge in the street”
  • Funny webcomic: Ada Lovelace: The Origin! (via @johannadc)

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  • Warner Music issued a DMCA takedown notice to an official Warner Music video channel. I think I need some popcorn.
  • From @david_colquhoun via @BadAstronomer:

    Guardian science editor’s daughter gets measles. He’s angry with the anti-vaccination brigade.

  • I nearly mistyped “foreign” as “foregin.” It sounds like an appetizer you should eat before drinking gin.
  • Senator Arlen Specter’s party switch is largely symbolic. He didn’t toe the Republican party line, so why expect he’ll toe Democratic line?

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  • Grr. Amazon wants to stop paying me because they think I’ve been buying search keywords to link to them. No, I haven’t. Update: Two days later, they responded: it’s a bad form letter, and even if I were buying keywords, they’d only stop paying referral fees on those links.
  • More concerned than usual about person sneezing in stairway.
  • Bad idea: leaving your pay stub in the brochure holder by the ATM. WTF? Someone’s asking for identity theft.
  • Good deed for the day: tearing it into tiny pieces and tossing the confetti in the trash.

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  • Glanced up at server monitors. It was 11:11:11 on the 11th, tiled 3 times. OMG!11111111
  • Cake Wrecks: The Problem With Phone Orders. Now back to work…
  • How appropriate: BNL’s “Shopping” in background of a Kohl’s commercial!
  • Also: the pop-up summary bits on the LOST rerun are seriously annoying. Fortunately I’m managing to tune them out.

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  • Weird: Zunes all over the world froze up at the same time overnight.
  • Comment win: “like she was going to rip his arm off and beat his spleen to death with it. Not him; just his spleen”
  • Just a quick store run – yeah along with everyone else in town.
  • More holiday creep! I still need to mail Xmas gifts to people I missed! It’s still 2008!

Valentine's Day Display