Monthly Archives: October 2008

My New Favorite Web Browsing Tool

If you are a Fire­fox user, I highly sug­gest installing Ubiq­uity. It’s a cur­rent exper­i­men­tal plu­gin for Fire­fox but it’s begin­ning to change how I surf the web, send things to peo­ple and in gen­eral, how I inter­act with the browser. Ubiq­uity is an attempt to use nat­ural lan­guage to inter­act with the browser. You …

October 10, 2008 – 9:43 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Internet/Technology | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Discussion Point

I’m cur­rently lis­ten­ing to SomaFM and the cur­rent track is called Codeine Cov­ered Cock­tail Nuts sung by the band Momma Gravy. Dis­cuss amongst yourselves.

October 9, 2008 – 1:10 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Random | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Scary Stuff

So Ice­land may be the first coun­try to go bank­rupt in this fun lit­tle cri­sis we’re hav­ing which in and of itself is pretty scary. But if you read that arti­cle care­fully, and if you are of a lib­er­tar­ian, con­ser­v­a­tive bent, I think you’ll find some­thing even more ter­ri­fy­ing. Did you see it? It’s this …

October 9, 2008 – 7:47 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics, International Affairs | Comments (0)

I Feel So Unprofessional

Next time you hear some­one call them­selves a “soft­ware engi­neer” or “soft­ware archi­tect”, show them this link and then gig­gle mani­a­cally. And peo­ple won­der why soft­ware sucks? It’s because some peo­ple out there learned about data­bases from Japan­ese car­toons! Gah.

October 9, 2008 – 7:30 am | By Scooter | Posted in Programming | Comments (3)

Dumb and Dumber

via Tom Toles at The Wash­ing­ton Post

October 8, 2008 – 3:12 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics, National Issues | Tagged , | Comments (0)

The Rich Get Richer

Not that we need any­more depress­ing news about the econ­omy here at The Exper­i­ment (we haven’t bought scotch in months, at $60 a bot­tle, it’s a lit­tle rich for us right now) but some­times, things need to get seen. Remem­ber the $85 bil­lion with a b bailout of AIG that was all the rage lately? …

October 7, 2008 – 11:55 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Economics, National Issues | Comments (0)

Countrywide: Helping People Stay In Homes They Can’t Afford Since 2008

A story: once there was a cou­ple who got engaged and decided to buy a house. This was in the fall of 2004 when the hous­ing mar­ket was peak­ing and fab­u­lous homes could be bought with no income ver­i­fi­ca­tion and mag­i­cal choose your own pay­ment plans. This cou­ple qual­i­fied for one of these fab­u­lous homes …

October 7, 2008 – 10:17 am | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in National Issues | Tagged , | Comments (4)

Other Non-Topics

Tom Brokaw notes other non-topics tonight. Noth­ing on immi­gra­tion, job cre­ation, NAFTA, Social Secu­rity and Medicare. All of these will come up in future debates which may define bet­ter where this elec­tion is going.

October 2, 2008 – 10:00 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Comments (0)

The Winner?

I think Biden wins this debate, at least the part I’ve seen. Palin is cool and I like her but Biden really came back in the last part of this debate, show­ing some emo­tion, giv­ing facts and being very straight­for­ward and blunt. I don’t like to admit it but I think Biden has the upper …

October 2, 2008 – 9:33 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Comments (0)

I Think I Win My Bet

Not a sin­gle ques­tion since I’ve been sit­ting here about the 2nd Amend­ment. Did I miss it?

October 2, 2008 – 9:26 pm | By Scotch Drinker | Posted in Politics | Comments (0)