As he promised a while back, Jon has hacked together an RSS Feed for The Bulletin. It’s obviously not perfect, and ideally The Bulletin would have one of their own, but this gets the job done for now.
Month: September 2004
113 Reasons to Have a Desk Job
Sometimes I’m really glad I have a desk job, especially after I read about all the industrial accidents out there. In Japan, nearly 2,000 workers die annually from industrial accidents, and they’ve documented (and illustrated) some of the most common here. Some of the grizly deaths include being run over when a dump truck stopped on sloping ground starts to move and explosions inside a tank during wastewater system repair work. Scary stuff.
Lock Down SSH
Now that I have root-level access on my Web server, I’m going to make sure these are all taken care of as the last thing I need is somebody compromising my Web server. Link via Neil.
Photoshop Tools In Real Life
What would life be like if you could use Photoshop tools in real life? An entertaining Fark Photoshop contest.
Want a House With A View?
Either buy a new house, or spend dang near as much and construct these virtual windows.
Photography Tip for the Day
In a pinch, you can use a lamp shade post as a tripod as the thread is actually the same on many digital camera tripod mounts. Thanks to Simone for the tip.
How Do You Increase Youth Voting?
I think Chris has the best idea yet:
If Pepsi and Burger King can give away a free song download with food purchases, why not the government too? Yep, when you vote you get a free song download. Hell, since this voting thing is important, give the people two free music downloads!
Sounds like a grand idea to me!
Man Arrested for Low Tipping
Humberto A. Taveras aces a misdemeanor charge of theft of services after he and his fellow diners argued with Soprano’s Italian and American Grill managers over the legality of requiring an 18 percent tip for large parties. He only tipped about 10 percent. Full Story.
I know I’d probably go straight to jail, as I usually tip low unless service is exceptional. I went to place here in Bend one time that added a 20% tip as part of the bill. We fought it, as the waiter was a butthead and totally not helpful to us at all. We gave a 10% tip directly to the chef, and made sure the waiter didn’t get any of it.
WiFi Before I Die
I know where I want to die. I got an e-mail out of the blue from Paul who was visiting his parents at a retirement home here in Bend. He was expecting a “death resort,” but found that Whispering Winds was not only fairly nice, but had free WiFi access (he didn’t mention it in the blog post, but he did mention it to me).
I wonder how common this is in the retirement home industry, especially locally where the things are popping up all over the place (there is a huge one getting built on the corner of Studio and Butler Market which is probably one of the biggest building I’ve ever seen).
So what that also means is that their network connections are probably much faster than they are (thanks to Barney for that bad joke and the headline).
25 Great Calvin and Hobbes Strips
I really miss Calvin and Hobbes. It was a brilliantly written strip that, to this day, still hasn’t been matched. I own many of the collections of strips, and really enjoyed reading good commentary on some of my favorites at this site:
And it’s really a shame that it’s so difficult to quantify this strip’s greatness. I can confidently state that Calvin & Hobbes outclasses the rest of the comic strip world more than anything else has ever outclassed the rest of its medium. Sans this strip, the industry is characterized by guys sitting on rocks making stupid puns, a Family Circus kid misunderstanding the meaning of a word, or an overweight father playing golf while telling jokes such as I LIKE GOLF and GOLF IS HARD. It’s a medium that doesn’t really deserve something as good as Calvin & Hobbes, but it got it anyway, and the newspaper-reading world was made a better place by it.