2008 September » otoh

Thy Name is Folly

Posted by Tim at 19:40 on 2008/09/08

Sep 082008

It looks like Hurricane Ike is going to miss Central Florida. Of course, the Gulf coast area where it seems to be headed doesn’t need it any more than we do. The other night someone told me that if her son Kyle is any indication then Hurricane Kyle is likely to be the most destructive of this season.

“You know,” I told her, “some teachers can’t have children because they’ve run out of names that they don’t hate….”

Really. Sometimes I slay me….

And I don’t remember whether I ever passed on this bit of wisdom that I read over the summer:

Electricity come from electrons. Morality comes from morons.

Shiny Happy Browsing

Posted by Tim at 19:43 on 2008/09/04

Sep 042008

Another volley has been fired in the browser wars, this time from search masters Google. Their offering, now in beta release, is Chrome.

You can learn about the nuts and bolts from a YouTube video and a comic interpretation, both of which are linked here. I suspect though that unless you are a developer, programmer, or just a big technogeek like me you won’t understand or care about the nuts and bolts. Nor should you. [After all, most of us drive automobiles without more than a glimmer of an idea of how they get us from A to B... although I personally think any driver should at least be able to remember to release the freakin' parking brake before trying to drive off into the sunset....]

Speed, stability, security — that’s what is supposed to be better about Chrome compared to whatever browser you currently use. You’ll just have to try it and see if it works better for your web experiences. [Oh yeah, you can get it here.] I’ve played with it a little yesterday and today. Too little time to make a determination. But I like the principles on which it’s built [because you know I read the comic and watched the video....]

I’ll probably do another post after I’ve played with it some more. If you try it, let me know what you think of it.

But You Didn't Hear it from Me

Posted by Tim at 17:54 on 2008/09/04

Sep 042008

Something like this may have happened once: I assisted a woman in getting her car started in the grocery store parking lot. But, even if it did happen, I would probably never tell you that. I would however very likely say, “I jumped a blonde at Publix.” But, you know, only if it happened to come up in conversation….

And if at some other time in a different place some totally different woman asked for help with her car because she couldn’t get the hood up and thinks it needs water and when she tried to drive it, it just sort of stalled and… sure enough the hood latch was broken and I had taken my tools out of my car because I was moving some things into storage and did you say it did start and then stalled? And if she started it up and put it in gear and it didn’t move and I looked underneath to make sure it wasn’t caught on something before I asked, “Is the parking brake on?” … And if she said, “Oh, yeah… I’m going to try to make it home now….” I would say, “Good luck.”

But that’s not exactly what I was thinking. Of course you didn’t hear it from me….

3SP: The Third Degree

Posted by Tim at 20:47 on 2008/09/03

Sep 032008

Three thirds make this 3-Song Playlist. Only the first one is really about today, but I can’t resist mixing a day you will always remember, another sleepy, dusty Delta day, and a day the fireworks came early.

Papa was a Rolling Stone by Temptations
Ode to Billy Joe by ArtistName Bobbie Gentry [wikipedia]
Third of July by Pensive

The song titles link to YouTube videos and the artist names link to their official web sites [or wikipedia pages when I can't find an artist site].

Fourth and Goal

Posted by Tim at 00:01 on 2008/09/01

Sep 012008

First: Thanks!

And B: It is my goal for the next month to write every single day. [Sit down, you two!] Before you get too ~~nauseated~~ excited, only a small percentage of what I write do I plan to post here. Some will be posted in other blogs and some will be old-school pen-and-paper. Like you care.

How ironic is this though? The first draft of this post included a diatribe against angst-ridden musings about whether to post… but it looked too much like an angst-ridden musing about whether to post for me to post it. Hah!