"My life is kind of incomplete without an arbitrary scoring system to validate me."

automated happy birthday emails = fail. "The automated scripts running on our database care about you! really!"

"Gorilla farts so bad zoo forced to apologize" ?? This is why we can't have nice things on the internet, people.

kicking it in Solvang, land of "Sideways"

"Unfortunately, there are not enough FogCreek / Atlassian / SpringSource companies out there." FRIGGING FOUND ONE THEN! Not kidding!

does anyone reading this know how to contact John Fraser? http://tinyurl.com/9yzlfw

How soon after birth is it appropriate to outfit your son with a gun? We're dudes, we love blowing stuff up. Deal with it!

problems with Technorati OpenID. is there anything Technorati does that *isn't* utterly broken?

modal dialogs, yet another terrible desktop metaphor we're ruining the web with.

mr. tweet is actually useful: http://mrtweet.net

at the moment when you actually care about twitter "authority", you've already lost.

I can scan large tracts of text, but I can't scan video worth a darn, not with 'buffering...' http://is.gd/dS4Z

Microsoft Altair BASIC legend talks http://tinyurl.com/yqn58

sometimes I just like to say "milliscobles"

good lord, they're STILL selling Halo 3 Legendary (aka "cat helmet") Editions? Someone made a buying error..

Archeological dig in Holy Land unearths 264gp http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/22/israel.rare.coins/

the Myth of the Twinkie Defense http://is.gd/dNeS

between "W" and "Milk" poor Josh Brolin has the dumbass politician role locked down tight

Mickey Rourke is a major freaktrain. "The Wrestler" must be great.. need to see

there is actual talk of Mickey Rourke getting an Oscar,?

"Blu-ray user generated commentary is 1 part hilarious and 9 parts the end of the world."

porn : video :: gambling : math

oh yeah well if Danica McKellar is such a mathlete why didn't she solve Fermat's Last Theorem, then? eh?

Danica McKellar has pop culture math books?? hilarious!

skateboarding: it really should be a crime.

oh, and the little "it's snowing" javascript web page code pushes Firefox to use an entire CPU core. MERRY XMAS YOU F**KERS!

most insightful UserVoice suggestion yet: http://stackoverflow.uservoice.com/pages/general/suggestions/94889

oh, it's "snowing" on this web page. I have three words for that: OH HELLLL NO.

to install a command line app, copy it into your /windows folder. (Somewhere, in the distance, a bearded UNIX geek's head just exploded.)

not that I'm bitter or anything. Every other browser defaults monospace fonts to same size as regular font. BUT NOT WEBKIT! HAHA! U GUYZ!!

"just put it in your windows directory". Really? That's what we're going with? (starts humming 'in the ghet-to...')

where's the right place on M$ Wind0ze to put a command line .exe I want to be in my user path? If only there was an IT stackoverflow.. hmm..

stackoverflow.com? pff, it's crap: http://tinyurl.com/7he7ns

the good news is, it's my birthday! The bad news is, I have to ask my wife how old I am!

Is there any place in CA that does not "contain materials known to cause cancer, birth defects, and reproductive harm"? I'm thinking no.

ok so 75% of Americans are glad to see Bush go, I want to meet this other 25%. I don't believe they exist.

what abilities make sense for a 10k rep stackoverflow.com user to have?

ooh, Steam holiday sale. Portal for $4.99?!?!?!? http://store.steampowered.com/holidaysale/

as much as I like UserVoice it is so infuriatingly slow. PERFORMANCE IS A FEATURE PEOPLE. That's why we use a Microsoft stack. :)

After hands-on time with the Wii, the lack of true motion support (eg/swords) is a disappointment. http://is.gd/UOQ

Exceedingly odd Amazon "New For You": The Dead Pool (Dirty Harry Movie) original soundtrack. I guess I *am* feeling lucky, punk!

the difference is that I build our servers with a secret ingredient: love.

World of Goo = awesome http://2dboy.com/games.php

My Development Methodology http://tinyurl.com/9pb34c

Every time I'm driving behind a refrigerated truck of liquid nitrogen, I think "this'll come in handy if a T-1000 is after me."

the Marshmallow Bow was a *huge* hit this christmas. Works great, too. http://tinyurl.com/5pkn2c

in other news HOLY MOTHER OF GOD SERVERS ARE LOUD

Depressingly, it may be cheaper to buy 8 x $100 drive trays than deal with return-rebuy servers. Welcome to the winter of my discontent.

I am hopping mad over this Lenovo Thinkserver drive rail issue. 160gb "server" drives for $98 each? That's a lot for drive rails.

arrrrgh! the Lenovo servers include ZERO drive rails. And you can't buy the drive rails seperately. Sigh. return or resell time, I guess.

@endash I see it this way: Apple = closed (hardware dongles + first party bias), Windows = semi-open (3rd party focus), Linux = totally open

I mean, now that Puzzle Quest is available for the iPhone, it's game over for everyone else. http://is.gd/8beO

It just seems to me that phones are so much bigger biz than music players or computers. And the iPhone is sooo far ahead of everyone else.

I'm starting to wonder if the iPhone will eventually be looked back on as Apple's most important product intro of all time.

OMG THE STACKOVERFLOW.COM SERVERS ARRIVED!! WOOOO! best xmas EVER, people!!

obey. stay asleep. consume. do not question authority. http://tinyurl.com/8d7y2y

Best. Answer. Ever. "What is the problem? The “You’re Doing It Wrong!!” feeling is the essence of our existence." http://is.gd/dnDG

DISCLAIMER: I have no idea what I am talking about.

"apparently there’s big money in fart apps" http://tinyurl.com/9epbhk

@JGMurray "half and full suplex modem" I see what you did there!

nobody says "wild ahss" with quite the gravitas of David Attenborough.

it's too bad you can't suplex people via email, Rowdy Roddy Piper style. http://tinyurl.com/trq2g

this is a shirt for @betsyphd "the good news is, she's pregnant!" http://is.gd/di77

RE: Gillmor Gang .. seriously, this milk is bad. taste it. http://tinyurl.com/a5r796

wow, I didn't think our podcast was particularly good until I listened to the Gilmore Gang. Hooooooooly crap.

"Is this a good idea? No, not particularly." I think every internet web page should feature this disclaimer.

every time I write an awesome SQL query, part of @robconery dies. This is as it should be.

SQL is a harsh mistress

"hey, don't make fun of him, that's a Parisian Night Suit!" http://tinyurl.com/7zoxgv

It is now time for The Airing of Grievances 2008 http://tinyurl.com/2attro

next week's Rock Band DLC is one of the best (small release) weeks ever, IMO http://is.gd/dh2x

and yes, I am this guy. RIP Freaks and Geeks, you were greatly loved. http://is.gd/dgWG

It is embarrassing how much I enjoy using the smoke/strobe/leds in Rock Band 2. Just got a fog refill from Guitar Center.. http://is.gd/6isy

the D&D guide to sex. All ascii text, but sort of NSFW, I guess. http://tinyurl.com/54tyd

Videogamers make good weapon turret operators http://is.gd/bzmP

I was just watching the intro to Crank in hi-def and I realized THIS IS THE BEST F**KING MOVIE EVER MADE!!

amusing voting issues on Stack Overflow, social software FTW, see comments http://tinyurl.com/737o4j

"Sixteen times I pressed that damn button! aND nOT once did it do anything! This site is a useless sack of crap!" http://tinyurl.com/93eybq

let's hug it out, bitch. http://tinyurl.com/6q9mgp

I have so much *content*. If only there was some kind of *management system* I could apply to said content. IF ONLY!

"I'm polish, and I don't get the joke about the word Potrzebie. I've read the wikipedia entry but I still don't get it. Why is it so funny?"

"all of the platinum in the world would fit in a cube that is 6.3 meters (about 20 feet) on a side" http://is.gd/d6hn

oh, so.com vote cheaters, I gots your number(s) now!

don't you wonder sometimes, about sound + vision? http://is.gd/d5Lx

via @hmxcasey - "once you understand the genre tropes of anime, you have already lost"

best Doom mod ever http://tinyurl.com/yugunv

I like Rush as much as the next hoser, but "The Trees" could totally be a Flight of the Conchords song. I'm just sayin' http://is.gd/d58Y

"This is an atrocity." -- hacker news commenter, December 2008

Mahalo Answers, bravely going where Yahoo Answers has gone before http://tinyurl.com/3kxzd9

I am toying with the idea of penalizing users who cast (n) sequential votes against another user, but they'd just optimize around it..

private void InvalidateRageVoting() // it is sad what the world has come to

See, this is what I was getting at with my last blog post. http://tinyurl.com/6ctz2f

The looming Road Warrior hellscape future, as portended by the global economic apocalypse? I'm unafraid. Razor boomerang, fools!

If you can run the #13 website in the US essentially by yourself, on 5 servers, is anything possible? http://is.gd/cF2D

"Toyota Motor Corp. on Monday forecast its first-*ever* operating loss this year" http://is.gd/d38i

I kinda want to see Superman IV after reading this. Although they did misspell "ColecoVision", for shame. http://is.gd/d31h

2008, the year in band names. http://tinyurl.com/4f4hxn

the phrase "dear reader" needs to die a terrible, ignominious death. Patronize much?

CONGLATURATION !!! http://72pcfiles.info/72pinconnector/Pictures/Conglaturations.png

Hey, remember all those DVDs you bought? Obsolete! Not high definition! (I guess 10 years from now we'll repeat w/ ultra high definition?)