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Monthly Archives: March 2007

two saturday nights

11-Mar-07

For once, I get to be the family food blogger- I made dinner last night. (Krissa sat on the couch and/or played sous chef from time to time.)

Salmon cakes and corn salsa from the Foster’s Market Cookbook; pumpkin and sweet potato soup from the New World Kitchen.
Was just great to out of the house, go [...]

gmplayer blows, and a not-so-lazyweb request re: wireless keyboards

11-Mar-07

For the record, gmplayer is a gigantic pile of shit. Like something from GNOME 0.1. None of this fancy ‘keyboard navigability’ (even once I found the keyboard docs on the web, most of them didn’t work, I’m sure I wasn’t in some mode or something) or ‘just working’ (failed to figure out a working video [...]

GNOME wine

10-Mar-07

Clare: I had a bottle of Barefoot Wine the night of the GNOME 2.0 release. Their foot isn’t quite right, but it was close enough for my purposes. :)

‘the great associate salary spike’

06-Mar-07

Long but interesting article on the economics of law firms, why first-year associates in the top firms now make $160K per year, and what might be broken about this. (For comparison, once you count bonuses, this is more than the salary of Supreme Court Justices.) (See also.)

misc. post-weekend bits

06-Mar-07

Diebold is considering selling their voting machine unit. RH, this is your chance.
Actually used a Wii for the first time this weekend. What fun. This is real thinking outside the box. (I’ve never owned a game machine, and never previously been particularly tempted. But I am now, esp. since I didn’t buy myself anything for [...]

winner: most gratuitous use of quotation marks

01-Mar-07

From Donald Trump, via my junk mail today:
Please be my personal guest to hear my real story… and also be trained by “4″ self-made multi-millionare experts.
Yes. He puts quotes around “4″. (He also puts quotes around “0″ later, though relatively speaking that use almost makes sense.) Kudos to Mr. Trump for a new low in [...]