Intentionality

1. If you don't watch where you're going, you're going to end up where you are headed.
2. Life is the instruction manual for what comes later.

Apple iBook G3

I have a used Apple iBook G3 for sale.

Search Preferences

By Scott Cunningham, Dis-Associated Press Writer

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA - Internet giant, Google, announced today that their index will not longer return results for searches beginning with the letters D or O, or the word "stimulus", until the Obama Administration agrees to increase their monthly AdWords budget.

Internet searchers, outraged at not being able to search for terms like dog and ovary, have flocked to Bing, the competing web search (or 'decision engine') created by Microsoft Corporation, headquartered in Redmond, W.A. To their dismay, searchers found that Bing returned no results for anything starting with the letters G or Y, or the word "chair".

DeVry Institute of Technology, 9D Graduating Class of 1981

I wished to post this photo long ago. Yesterday, I found my classmates names, tucked into a very old "Phone Lists" folder. So, without further ado, I give you the 9D 1981 Graduating Class of DeVry Institute of Technology, in Phoenix Arizona.


1st: Reza Mahjoub, Russ Zimmerman, Curtis Kosley, Kevin Sharpley, Ken Scott, Eddie B. Collins, Bob Wiley, Gregg Syrovatka, Kelly Myers
2nd: Rob Sell, Layne Thomas, Doug Meyers, James Sorrell, Dave Markgraf, Lance Mortenson, Dan Beckman, Kurt Anderson
3rd: Jesus Abulencia, Scott Cunningham, Matt Wagner, David Page, Rob Sandberg, Mark Collins, Jim Heilig, John Sterba
4th: Markley Gordon, Mike Steinman, Thomas Hashimoto, Norm Nealy, Bob Oettinger, Tim Kiphuth, Jam Lamarre, Tom Boe, Hans Prorok
5th: Jim Howard, Mike Kandziora, Mickey Bowen, Rahim Keramat, Greg Peterson, Dan Bross, Rickey Bowen, Larry Rahm, Jim Black

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Murphy's Law in Machine Translation

Using machine translation, translate Murphy's Law: "Anything that can go wrong, will" to Japanese, and then back again to English. Repeat until the translation reaches equilibrium (i.e., doesn't transform to something else). The Japanese-English phrases equalize to:

仕事では？
At work?

Go to http://translationparty.com/#1374308 for more fun.

Dead and Gone

Awhile back, I lamented the dying of our four Monterey pines (Monterey Pine Death).

Alas, they are gone. A couple of weeks ago, we paid a "tree service" company to cut down the dead trunks (though the largest still had green needles on its branches), haul away the wood, and grind out the stumps.




There is now a bright emptiness in our backyard where they once stood. We are considering planting citrus trees in their place. Perhaps a lemon or lime tree.

Putting the "No" in Innovation

A deliciously slackeresque ad from Post cereal: Putting the "No" in innovation. I particularly like Frank's recommendation of Google Earth as a good way to waste time.

See the whole series here.