http://www.joshmillard.com The personal blog of Josh Millard Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:53:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A little over a year ago, mefite Roger Dodger made a nice post to Metafilter about some free LISP resources. I'm actually goofily fond of the LISP family, but I have a hard time walking away from a good straight line. Another user commented, I zinged back, and ... http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/06/27/things-that-are-better-than-scabies/ Go read this wonderful little Princess Bride satire, from econ blogger Macro Man. Vizzini: But it's so simple. All I have to do is divine from what I know of you: are you the sort of problem that will respond well to a tightening of domestic monetary policy that will not ... http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/06/27/economics-theater/ Via AskMe: Drama penguin of the day: I am infatuating a work colleague of mine badly and I am looking for resources to understand the nature of my infatuation to get over it. Emphasis mine. Now what the hell is a drama penguin? I'm pretty sure it's not this ... http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/06/24/drama-penguin/ From the frenzied mind and hands of bandmate and engine-of-creativity Hiram comes a stop-motion film about heartbreak, nude beaches, and tiny plastic dinosaurs. He did a really good job with it. It's not a recording I had any hand in creating, but he borrowed my tripod so technically I helped. The ... http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/06/24/dont-go-stop-a-harvey-girls-music-video/ People ask a lot of questions over at Ask Metafilter. And some of those questions are about the bathroom: about why people talk in there, why they flush things, how to not die of bathroom poisoning, and so on. Really, there are a whole dang lot of these questions. ... http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/06/23/bathroom-etiquette-ask-metafilter-edition/ Something started itching at the back of my skull when I read this sentence today, from a local weekly's article about a man suspected of killing and dismembering his roommate as well as his landlord: Prosecutors still aren't sure why Hudson allegedly killed both men. Now, a couple of reasonable givens, here: - ... http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/06/16/allegedly-misplaced-modifiers/ What's a chyron? The graphical overlay occupying (approximately, at least) the lower third of TV broadcasts, particularly news. So named apparently for a major manufacturer of equipment used for said overlaying; "aston" in the UK, also after a manufacturer. Neat. This bit of news production lingo via a ... http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/06/12/new-to-my-vocabulary-chryon/ From a boston.com article on two male college students currently in hot water over a peeping-tom video they made of two female students in an adjascent dormitory: "We in no way meant to embarrass them," he said. "We didn't understand the severity of the situation when we were taping it." While it's ... http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/06/12/the-implied-severity-of-sex/ There's a discussion from late last week on Jeff Atwood's Coding Horror of a strange comment left on one of his old posts, offering a nonsense defintion of "programming": Programming is all about knowing when to boil the orange sponge donkey across the phillipines with an orangutang gorilla crossed with a ... http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/06/12/found-poetry/ Got a nice note in the mail from a fellow mefite this morning: Hi Josh, You wrote this last night, "tim, the folks who are pointing out that posting a metatalk thread to tell us we can email you is weird are right. " and I just thought it was a supercool ... http://www.joshmillard.com/2008/06/11/mefi-makes-strange-embedding-fellows/