Category Archives: Miscellaneous

This is a long, rambling diatribe that took me a couple weeks to write during odd hours. In that time it seemed that there was another major Google-related story every week and I kept coming up with new insights to … Continue reading →

I’m a big fan of English-like programming syntax. I love that Ruby has an unless operator and that both it and if can be put after the statement, like do_this if this or do_this unless that . I also like … Continue reading →

Oh hai. I’ll start writing here again, I swear. This is just a quick “I had an idea” post. An idea for a Firefox extension/Jetpack plugin: You right-click on some text, select “speak it”, the text gets sent to the … Continue reading →

This reminded me of a local meme1 in my office, based on the blank cat is blank global meme. But while I have your attention, I want to talk about my software plans. One thing I’ve meant to work on … Continue reading →

A dystopian “control” society based on distraction. Remember, in Brave New World it’s entertainment, in Brazil it’s bureaucracy and prolishness, in 1984 it’s fear and propaganda… but distraction as such is something different. You set your mind to do something … Continue reading →

I actually wrote this a couple of months ago, but I was too shy to post it then. I get the occasional weird spam mails that are sent to the alexandria-list-owner and I’m not sure if I can safely spam … Continue reading →

Okay, so events are past public occurrences that get a URL. E.g., “a man who was wearing a gaudy green coat and playing a ukelele that disturbed people in the cafe at X.” In the case of crimes, these events … Continue reading →

I was at the local PNC Bank to deposit a paycheck, and I was writing out a deposit slip.  A woman said loudly to the bank teller something like, “I wish she’d just had the heart attack then!” and the … Continue reading →