“Listen, baby—these tabloid newspapers—these photographers—the press—these people do not care about us. They could care less what actually happens to us. So you and I have to take very good care of our life. On our own. We can’t expect them to do it for us. We know our values— and we know who we are.”
— Bogie to Bacall, on marriageWell, that explains a lot...
Jim Kirk and time travel: just say “no”.
Pixiv Champloo 3
So here’s an amusing Hugo note: if I don’t put anything above the fold, it won’t show the “more” button at all. So, blah blah blah cheesecake.
Dear US Customs Department,
Please update your Javascript validation code on the Global Entry application page to accept brand new passports issued during the current month.
Update
Works today. Someone must have noticed before I did, because I sincerely doubt that a government agency could make, test, and roll out a change to a web site on a Sunday night.
Now to see how long the queue is.
Dear Amazon,
Are you sure you’re allowed to advertise to kids this way?
Update
Grrr, I hate EXIF image-rotation and applications that don’t convert it to actual rotation on save.
Reminder for the next time I need this…
mogrify -auto-orient foo.jpg
(lossy, but quick for images I intend to resize down for the blog anyway)
Dear Reason Magazine,
Politics Should Be More Like a Starbucks Menu
You mean overpriced, pretentious, anti-competitive, and burned? I think we’re there already.
