http://spoonfighter.com Frequently updated and funny. By frequent, I mean yearly. By funny, I mean not very. Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:06:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Oh poop, has it been 9 months since I posted something, here? You know, I thought I’d get my annual blog-post in early. My buddy satyr asks me if Spoonfighter is dead. It probably is. Hey - lots of things died in 2009: Michael Jackson, Patrick Swayze, the Democrats …. I’m actually ... http://spoonfighter.com/archives/250 In case you haven’t noticed, the economy is bad. In recession. Like what happens to men when they jump into cold water. Or so I’m told. It is especially bad in places like Michigan. Michigan is having trouble because it produces only two things, cars, and mosquitoes. And only the ... http://spoonfighter.com/archives/248 I love ninjas, I like doctors, and McDonalds is ok. But I LOVE Dr. McNinja. http://spoonfighter.com/archives/247 If you have a lot of accounts and passwords, you can get password-management software that will keep track of them for you. All you have to do is remember one password to view all the others. Some of this software is free, some is not, and you can get it ... http://spoonfighter.com/archives/246 1. Take off your clothes 2. Stand in front of a large mirror 3. Start jumping up and down 4. Flex all your muscles 5. Observe how much of you appears to be trying to catch up with the rest of you. Optional step for added “fun”: 6. Perform before and after each holiday meal. Merry Christmahannukwanzika! http://spoonfighter.com/archives/245 This XKCD cartoon basically explains how I got into my career: link. In my case, the critical experience occurred after college, when I was doing data entry at Sun Microsystems, and it was Solaris I was messing with, not Perl. (Although I am pretty good at Perl, now, too.) If ... http://spoonfighter.com/archives/243 Interesting quote from Timothy Ferriss (author of the 4-Hour Workweek), from his blog, on why he doesn’t do much stock-market investing: Here’s the deal — to beat the market consistently, you have to: 1) have better information than most people, 2) have superior analysis of the same information, or 3) have ... http://spoonfighter.com/archives/242 I’m on-call at the moment, which means that I get paged any time a customer has a problem with one of their computers, or any time a monitoring program thinks one of those computers might have a problem. The monitoring program has obsessive-compulsive disorder, and it likes to send a ... http://spoonfighter.com/archives/241 It’s going to be hard to trust the election results when electronic voting systems are so easy to hack. http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/evoting.ars Postscript, 11/19/2008: In the end, regardless of who won or lost, I’m glad that the outcome wasn’t ambiguous as compared to polling data. If there was any monkey-business going on in ... http://spoonfighter.com/archives/240 I often hear or read people who argue that the reason we shouldn’t move to a universal healthcare system, like every other developed country has, is that we would lose our status as having The Best Medical Care in the World. The self-evident truth of this status is often thrown ... http://spoonfighter.com/archives/239