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I’ve always assumed that I would be too stupid to survive the Microsoft interviewing process.  In case you don’t already know, Microsoft is renowned for asking clever little logic questions during their interviews, and I am renowned for being really stupid.  Not a good combo. But then Jensen Harris linked to a list of the ...

Alan: The Dilbert guy has a good post about Hamas winning that election. Alan: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/01/dog_catches_car.html Jason: I haven't watched television or read the Interline in a while.  I'm completely out of it.  I thought hamas was a dip for stale bagels.  It isn't? Alan: No, it is.  It ...

I live in a normal house in a normal suburb, and I’m pretty bad at math.  Even so, I must admit that I am guilty of sending suspicious packages across international boundaries.  (I wonder if this is how Kaczynski started.  Maybe I should look into Mailers Anonymous before this becomes a thing.)

Somehow I didn’t know about this piece of Denver/Longmont history until I saw it on Masoner’s blog. Check it out: That afternoon, Graham drove [his mother, Daisie King] to the airport after stuffing 25 sticks of dynamite, two blasting caps and a timer in her suitcase. He told King he had hidden a Christmas gift in the ...

The Snack Cakes for Links program ended a little over a month ago and was a roaring success.  Several people participated, I found a couple of great blogs, and — most importantly of all — it didn’t take the Internet by storm.  (Sending a snack cake for each hyperlink is one of those ideas that sounds a lot better when you’re ...

The snack cakes for hyperlinks program is picking up steam.  We’re nowhere near a full head of steam, mind you, but the first signs of a boil have appeared.  Speaking of which, I had boils once, and I found the home remedy of treating them with water vapor to be way too confusing.  By the end of the treatment I was ...

I'll start with the good.  We live in Northern Colorado and recently had our house painted, inside and out.  We hired Perfection Painting of Longmont to do the work, and they did a fantastic job.  The interior had its challenges (a wide variety of colors, lots of transitions, a kitchen, etc.) but their work ...

All your base are belong to us.  And, how to destroy the earth.

We’re still busy putting our house back together again, but I finally have my computer back into place and plugged into various things.  I think having no computer (or television!) for a few days gave me a new outlook.  Specifically, I don’t think I ever realized just how difficult it must have been for our forefathers to ...

If you’ve ever sat in a car made by Chrysler or any other automobile manufacturer, you must read this short article.  Please take a few seconds to read the entire thing.