Month: December 2005

  • …and to all a good night

    I’ve just (barely) beaten my self-imposed deadline of “before Christmas” for turning in my MSF application. They say that I should hear back from them in 3 or 4 weeks. The next step would be an interview. Don’t know how soon it would happen. I haven’t sent out an update in a while, so here’s…

  • The real reason to do humanitarian aid work

    Guys, here’s the real reason to do humanitarian aid work. Ladies, fear not, I’m on my way, as soon as I get around to putting my MSF application in, and they realize I’m the perfect candidate…

  • Cyberpunked Dog

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    Today in addition to getting her shots, Kat got microchipped. I’m a little jealous; I figured my criminally invasive government or one of my evil employers would have chipped me before a pet I owned got it done. Anyway, in case you care (or happen to be searching the Internet for Kat’s number because you’ve…

  • Kat the Dog: Cuter on video

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    Last night I made a video out of the random video clips I’d gathered with my and other people’s digital cameras. Instead of emailing the 45 megabyte movie to y’all (Bad Idea), I put the video on Google Video (Good Idea). The other nice thing is that instead of being in the stupid Windows-only movie…

  • Feature wish

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    I want a Firefox extension that lets me select some text on a webpage, right click, and get that HTML in a box to edit. Once I edit it, I want the extension to compute the diff between my edited copy and the copy in the web page, find an address to send it to…

  • I love the IRS

    I like the IRS. I’ve never really minded paying taxes, and though I have some complaints with the complexity of our tax code, I know that’s not the IRS’s fault. They do the best they can with the mess given to them each year by congress. I think the way the IRS does e-filing is…