Category: Life
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Who are you? Who, who, who, who?
Apparently, when you post to Slashdot claiming to be someone you may not be, people don’t take your word for it. In the hour after I wrote that post, my access logs show that 10 different people searched Google for “Christopher Finke” and ended up at my site. (This normally happens about twice a month.)…
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A gentleman and a scholar
C.K. announced yesterday his departure from Netscape. It’s really too bad; he’s been an incredible boss and an exciting person to be around. I especially enjoyed the caffeine-fueled afternoon when we created the Netscape Digg Tracker. Good times, good times… He’ll be sorely missed, but I don’t harbor any sore feeling towards him for leaving.…
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I see what you did there…
Here’s an editorial cartooon I submitted a while back for publication in the Minnesota Daily, the overwhelmingly left-wing student newspaper of the University of Minnesota. (For those of you who didn’t go to the U of M, the Daily’s oft-used advertising slogan is “I get it Daily.”) I wonder why they didn’t publish it…
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Cynicism
The oyster who couldn’t be prouder Of making a pearl out of powder Feels much better than He who spit out the sand, But they’ll both end up floating in chowder.
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The Truth About Cats and Dogs
I got my wife a kitten for Christmas: Our dog Pedro thinks that the kitten is his pet and hasn’t stopped hovering over it for the past 6 days: In fact, he only eats when the kitten does: The kitten quickly figured out that Pedro is afraid of this baby-gate (it tipped over on him…
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America’s Next Top Remodel
My wife and I recently remodeled our back entryway, partly because it needed it and partly as preparation for remodeling our kitchen. We replaced 25 year-old linoleum with laminate flooring, stripped off the textured wallpaper, painted the walls and doors (after repairing some pretty big holes and cracks hidden by the wallpaper), and put up…
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I’ve been tagged… Five things you don’t know about me.
So C.K. tagged me into the “List five things people don’t know about you and then get five more people to do the same” pyramid scheme meme. (For those of you keeping track, the line back to the top of the pyramid is me » C.K. Sample » Jason Calacanis » Amanda Congdon » Michael…
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“Dave & Buster’s” pwns j00
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It seemed like a good idea at the time
10:05 AM: “Oh, look!” said Christina. “Some cute little birdies! I shall feed them my leftover Tostitos!” 10:06 AM:
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It’s nothing like Monopoly
FYI: The Luxe Hotel in Bel Air, CA (or Brentwood or Los Angeles, depending on whom you ask), will charge you $22 per night (plus tax) for parking, and they will only tell you this once you have checked in and given your keys to the mandatory valet.
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‘Scape-o-lantern
I decided not to do a plain old “3 triangles and a mouth” this year: Instructions for making your very own Netscape jack-o-lantern: 1. Obtain a pumpkin, either by way of purchase or barter. 2. Remove everything that doesn’t look like a Netscape logo, either by way of cutting or stabbing.
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Dethroned
Well, I had a good run, but kudos to you, Loic Hay, for unseating my resume from the top of the Emurse popularity heap. Given another few days, my wife might have taken care of this anyway.
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Pedro on Netscape
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Some indicators are frighteningly accurate
I just glanced at my iTunes playlist, and my top two songs by play count are “Code Monkey” and “White and Nerdy.”
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What’s the Dealio?
I’m watching the season premiere of “Deal or No Deal” on NBC right now, and contrary to my assumption before having seen it, it’s much more entertaining than you would expect. Essentially, contestants are given a 1 in 25 chance of winning $1,000,000 (or in tonight’s supersized Howie Mandeltastic premiere, $3,000,000). The stage is populated…
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The Hand Strikes and Gives a Flower
FYI: Season 2 of The Office has arrived in my mailbox; I will be unavailable for the next 18 hours.
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It hailed a little here this morning…
Update: Kare 11 showed my photo for about 2 seconds during the five o’clock news. Fame and fortune, here I come!
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Nah, na na na nah, na na na nah, na na nah, na na nah, na na na nah
I just noticed that the delay between when I mouseover a bookmark folder in Firefox and when the folder’s contents appear is the same duration of one beat of Ini Kamoze’s “Here Come the Hot-Stepper.” I then spent 30 seconds opening bookmark folders to the beat. I don’t know what’s worse – the fact that…
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TV Channel Bookmarks
If you’ve ever used Macromedia Homesite to write code, then you’re probably aware of a feature it has called “bookmarks.” You can bookmark (or unbookmark) a line of code with Ctrl-K and then visit each consecutive bookmark by pressing Ctrl-Shift-K. This way, you can keep your proverbial finger in several parts of the page without…
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At Least They’re Honest
I just heard a Maaco commercial where one of the guys says, “Our quality? Well, you won’t even know it’s been repaired!” I know what they’re trying to say, but perhaps they should rethink the choice of words…