random bits

[cellio]

This morning the parkway was uncharacteristically slow, which I discovered only once I was well down the ramp. As I was crawling along I spotted a signboard ahead. Oh good, I thought; it might say what's going on. It said "congestion ahead". Well duh. Would it have been so difficult to say how much farther ahead? (Didn't affect me; I was getting off at the next exit anyway. It could have helped others, though.

I'd sure like to know why, semi-randomly, no browser installed on my home PC will render the ThinkGeek site. The only deterministic aspect so far is that once it fails, it apparently won't work until a reboot. I even tried clearing the cache, turning the firewall off, and trying the site -- zip. (Yes, of course I immediately turned the firewall back on.) Maybe I'll pull out the laptop later.

For what I assure you is a perfectly good reason, tonight I was trying to find DVDs of the Star Wars movies in the Italian language. Searching got a little more productive once I switched to the term "guerre stellari", but it's still bringing me no joy. Looks like even if I could find them, and find them in NTSC, they'd be region 2. Oh well. But it wasn't a completely wasted effort; back-translation supplied the following titles: "Vendetta of the Sith", "The Ghost Threat", "The Empire Still Hits", and "Stellar Wars YOU - The Return of the Jedi".

Last night I learned that my former boss (the most recent ex-boss) is going on the Israel trip. He doesn't live in this city any more, so I didn't expect that. Nifty! More people I actually know in the group. (I already know less than half the group, so far.)

From passionateusers: The zone of expendability: how management feels about you.

osewalrus has an excellent post about why "stealing" wireless isn't stealing but trespassing.

On a different subject, osewalrus also had an interesting entry recently looking at legal aspects of marriage, custody, and consent a little differently.

Scott Adams on Bill Gates for president. There are worse ideas.

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

passionateusers

[blink] Of course CPU has an LJ feed. Doesn't everything? How silly of me.

[grouchyoldcoot.livejournal.com]

rrr, rape and post-consent withdrawl of consent. This very much gives me the willies. If you were having sex with your husband and told him to stop, how many seconds do you think he should have to comply before he was subject to imprisonment?

Sorry; I know I should be addressing this comment to osewalrus, but I don't know that person...

[cellio]

I agree with you on that; allowing retroactive withdrawal of consent is a problem. The idea of "presumption of non-consent" (that is, consent must be explicit) makes sense to me. (Note that in the case cited here she did consent, so with the facts available I would have ruled for the guy in that case.)

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

>> I'd sure like to know why, semi-randomly, no browser installed on my home PC will render the ThinkGeek site.

I have a similar problem. There's a web site I use for work. No browser on my computer will show the updated version of the page (instead, I get an old version dating back to 2005) except for AOL's built-in browser.* This infuriates me because I despise AOL and want to give it up. But I rely heavily enough on that site for work that I grit my teeth and put up with it.

* Their browser is supposedly based on IE. I've tried pulling up the site in the regular version of IE, but no dice.