Waiter Rant

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Waiter admits Caroline sex attack

Waiter admits Caroline sex attack 06/08/2004 04:04 AM
The man accused of murdering Caroline Dickinson admits sexually assaulting her but denies her murder.

Waiter, there's a microchip in my pork
butt

Waiter, there's a microchip in my pork
butt 09/18/2004 02:38 PM
Xeni Jardin: Over a thousand pounds of pig flesh processed at a Sioux Center meatpacking facility was recalled over fears that a missing microchip could be embedded in the meat.

The Sioux-Preme Packing Co. recalled 110 pork shoulder butts -- about 1,100 pounds of meat -- that could contain the metal devices used to measure scientific data in hogs.

Pass the tofurkey, please. Link

Waiter admits Caroline's killing

Waiter admits Caroline's killing 06/22/2005 01:59 AM
A Spanish waiter admits killing British schoolgirl Caroline Dickinson but says it was "an accident".

True story: as a teenage waiter, I once
spit-shined the silverware.

True story: as a teenage waiter, I once
spit-shined the silverware. 02/01/2005 09:58 PM
Revenge is a dish best served cold. The NY Times [bugmenot ] tables a tasty selection of vindictive waitstaff blogs. MeFi (ahem) servers, past and present, who were your worst customers? And did they get their just desserts?

Secret Service Takes Blame for
Waiter’s Exit

Secret Service Takes Blame for
Waiter’s Exit 12/12/2003 05:39 AM
just love our brown friends .. Read article

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DNS Rant

DNS Rant 12/20/2002 03:45 AM
My broadband provider seems incapable of running a reliable DNS service. It pains me greatly because DNS isn't that difficult...

stunning rant

stunning rant 05/12/2004 01:30 AM
Cold Turkey:

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New Rant: Die, Version 4, Die!

New Rant: Die, Version 4, Die! 10/10/2002 09:55 AM

RealPlayer Rant

RealPlayer Rant 03/08/2004 11:17 PM

Real Obnoxious: Another great rant about how crappy RealPlayer is. I agree with everything here — RealPlayer borders on malware these days.

...playing video streams is only a very small aspect of what Real Player does; Real Player, most prominently, is a small bastard with inferiority complex and delusions of grandeur, not too different from Napoleon. Although Real Player's task is simple and limited to a certain timeframe, Real Player defaults to running at all times, whether its limited functionality is needed or not, and claims a seat for itself in the throne commonly called the systray.

Here was the last rant. Via BoingBoing.

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Another Google Rant

Another Google Rant 12/18/2003 11:52 AM
About Web Search Dec 18 2003 10:47AM ET

The famous Dean rant

The famous Dean rant 01/23/2004 02:19 PM

This morning I watched the Diane Sawyer interview with Howard and Judy Dean, and was very touched. I told the Berkman Thursday group last night that I was pretty sure that Dean would turn the corner and emerge out of New Hampshire as a viable candidate, and after watching the interview and last night's debate, I'm even more sure. Last night I also told what I know about The Scream, and why it was so shocking and where it came from. After seeing the Sawyer interview I feel I must tell the story in public. First a disclaimer. No one in the Dean campaign asked me to tell it, nor does anyone in the Dean campaign know I'm going to. I don't work for them and I don't support any of the candidates for President at this time. Anyone who wants to point to this piece should use this link< /a>.

I wasn't counting, but they must have shown the famous Dean rant twenty times during the Sawyer interview. I saw it live and was disgusted by it, and then saw it twenty more times, so that's a total of approximately 41 times. Once was enough for me. The other (approx) 40 times it was just sensationalism, and over time my opinion of it shifted. During the interview I wanted one of them, Judy or Howard to ask her a pointed question -- what is the big deal Diane? Of course that would be anger, and was probably exactly what the producers at ABC-News hoped would happen.

I was at Dean headquarters on the night of the Iowa caucuses, and I watched the Dean rant on TV in the office, with the other Web programmers. A few minutes before the speech they had a staff meeting in the conference room. Everyone was there except me and another guest. Not being a staffer, I didn't belong in the staff meeting. Several times during the meeting a loud crazy-sounding scream came from the room, everyone was doing it, and it was really frightening. The stuff of nightmares. This was before Howard Dean's rant. I asked Jim Moore what that was about, he said it's an Indian war yell or something like that, they used to do it in United Farm Workers rallies, and they adopted it at Dean For America. A few minutes later Dean let out the famous scream, it was the same scream I heard in the conference room.

They're probably not saying this publicly because it wouldn't seem contrite to do it, and they probably know they'd get roasted for saying the scream and ranting you heard was part of the motivational culture at DFA. Some have compared the Dean speech to a similar rant by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that made the rounds of the Net. So Dean gets a bit whacky, but after seeing it so many times, the shock value is fading. Taken at face value it wasn't anger, it was a steam-letting, and an attempt to rally the troops, and totally understandable. The press, as usual, is making a big deal of catching a candidate being a human being. But that's what he is. He's not an actor, he's not a commercial, he's not a deodorant, he's not a product, and I'm glad we have a chance to have this discussion. I'm not a Dean supporter (yet, but I'm getting there) and they didn't ask me to say this, but please, it's time for the press to let us have an election, or maybe it's time for us to have an election without them.

Timothy Noah at Slate seems to agree. "If only Dean had taken a swing at Nurse Ratched before they wheeled him into the operating room." Amen!

Cory's drm rant wikified

Cory's drm rant wikified 06/20/2004 08:34 PM

Cory's excellent drm rant which he presented at Microsoft Research has now been wikified to allow people to comment and add to it. Excellent.

sometimes people inspire me to rant

sometimes people inspire me to rant 06/06/2004 08:22 AM
ponyboy's done the most effective trolling of me i've ever seen on the web

Stross's future-rant

Stross's future-rant 04/30/2004 03:37 AM
Tomorrow, I'll be interviewing Charlie Stross at Plokta.con, a con in Newbury, UK. He's the Guest-of-Honour, and he's written up a corker of a GoH contribution for the programme book.

Eusocial animals like ants, termites, bees, or naked mole rats, exhibit curious behaviour; their societies are stratified by role, with workers, warriors, and reproductive castes that may differ morphologically from one another. Humans aren't so obviously specialized, but if you consider our machines as part of our extended phenotype, it begins to look that way: if our machines become intentionally driven, and they're tailored to play different roles in our society, then you could argue that we occupy some kind of privileged position in a hive-relationship with tools that require our continued safety and comfort in order to further their own reproduction. There's nobody here in this hive but us queens, and the living machines we so carelessly manufacture as conveniences for our own comfort. Individual ants or other eusocial insect species all share the same genetic code, but different castes express radically different phenotypic traits, and indeed most ants are sterile workers who can only further their genetic traits by ensuring that their cousin, aunt or mother the hive-queen succeeds. Our machines don't share our genome (yet), but they share parts of the vast haze of information that has gathered around the genome, and they can only reproduce through us.

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David Weinberger's excellent rant

David Weinberger's excellent rant 04/27/2004 04:03 PM
C-SPAN captured David Weinberger's excellent rant yesterday at the Technology and Politics Summit in DC. The stream was overloaded last I checked, but I captured a clip (WinMedia< /a>, QuickTime ). The corresponding segment of the stream, when it becomes available, is here. It's the part where he talks about how networked markets erode the power of conventional marketing, empower the customer, and transform the business of product evaluation. ...

Java, day #3: JDBC, MySQL, and a Rant

Java, day #3: JDBC, MySQL, and a Rant 12/23/2002 02:48 AM
Well, it's not really day #3. But I've spent a fair amount of time on Friday and over the weekend reading a copy of "The Java Programming Language" to refresh my memory on all this new-fangled Java stuff. I decided...

The Daily Rant: Carnival of the Vanities
No. 25

The Daily Rant: Carnival of the Vanities
No. 25 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
25th edition of the Carnival of the Vanities .. the Daily Rant here .. Jay Caruso's place .. It's up .. COV25?

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Interesting rant on unix usability

Interesting rant on unix usability 10/28/2003 11:08 PM
Seems jwz wrote a rant about the lack of usable videoplayers under linux and had a "slashdot moment" afterwards. I...

Google Blogger Comment Rant

Google Blogger Comment Rant 05/15/2004 09:38 PM

Just now I found out that users commenters to get a Google Blogger account before they can post comments to blogs hosted by Google Blogger.

This makes no sense.I wouldn't mind if they just required the commenter to register themselves and made creation of a blog optional.  Yes, one could just create one and ignore it but it's irritating to be forced into creating and abandoning something like a blog just so I can post comments.

The right way to grow membership is by increasing the quality of service for members (i.e. convenience), not by telling blog readers to either join or go away.  Maybe Evan or Jason can explain why.

Update:

It turns out that this was caused by a preference setting.  Now it makes sense although I sure hope this was not the default setting.  Evan and Jason, nevermind.

Other News: Anti-eMac Rant

Other News: Anti-eMac Rant 12/22/2004 01:56 AM
Leave it to Louderback to trash the eMac....

Skip this rant and read Shirky

Skip this rant and read Shirky 12/03/2003 07:33 AM

Talk? These Walls Rant (Los Angeles
Times)

Talk? These Walls Rant (Los Angeles
Times) 09/03/2004 04:51 AM
Los Angeles Times - JERUSALEM — Take a stroll through the Mea Shearim neighborhood and listen to the walls speak.

Ebooks talk has a hidden posthumanist
rant in it

Ebooks talk has a hidden posthumanist
rant in it 08/01/2004 08:00 AM
This is pretty funny -- kaksoisagentti took my ebooks talk and replaced "book" with "human," "ebook" with "posthuman" and "paper" with "flesh." The results are surprisingly cogent:

2. Posthumans complement flesh humans. Having an posthuman is good. Having a flesh human is good. Having both is even better. One reader wrote to me and said that he read half my first novel from the bound human, and printed the other half on scrap-flesh to read at the beach. Students write to me to say that it's easier to do their term fleshs if they can copy and paste their quotations into their word-processors. Baen readers use the electronic editions of their favorite series to build concordances of characters, places and events.

Link (Thanks, kaksoisagentti! )

Dean Reprises Election Night Rant (AP)

Dean Reprises Election Night Rant (AP) 01/23/2004 08:48 PM
AP - Howard Dean reprised his memorably loud election night rant Friday, this time sticking to the mellowest and most presidential of tones.

Loic's rant at the European WEF (Davos)
meeting

Loic's rant at the European WEF (Davos)
meeting 05/01/2004 09:34 PM

Loic's rant at the European WEF meeting. With his French accent, Loic criticizes France and is our designated agitator at the Warsaw meeting. Wish I had been there to heckle him. ;-)

Interesting talk. Loic's soliciting comments on his blog.

Revolting Librarians Redux: Guardians of
culture rant out

Revolting Librarians Redux: Guardians of
culture rant out 03/15/2003 11:03 AM
Next fall will see the publication of a followup to the classic "Revolting Librarians," a collection of radical librarian ranting.

...cover topics that range from library education and librarianship as a profession to the more political and spiritual aspects of librarianship. The contributions include critiques of library and information science programs, firsthand accounts of work experiences, and original fiction, poetry and art. Ten of the original librarians who wrote essays for Revolting Librarians back in 1972 reflect upon what they wrote thirty years ago and the turns that their lives and careers have taken since.

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Celtic boss leaves rant on wrong phone

Celtic boss leaves rant on wrong phone 04/19/2005 06:25 AM
Own goal forces public apology

Extended iCal rant from a timezone
warrior Apple' ...

Extended iCal rant from a timezone
warrior Apple' ... 10/31/2003 07:24 PM

Extended iCal rant from a timezone warrior

Apple's iCal has an unbelievably annoying, poorly thought-out system for handling timezone changes. Here's how it works: when you change the timezone of your system-clock, it adjusts all of your calendar items, so if you go from Pacific to Eastern time, you noon lunch appointment is "fixed" so that it shows up at 3PM -- the Eastern equivalent of 12PM Pacific.

What is the use-case for this? If I'm in San Francisco and I'm going to Toronto in a week and I make a 6PM dinner appointment with my brother and sister-in-law, should I enter it as a 3PM appointment, knowing that my computer will adjust this to 6PM when I land in Toronto and change my system clock? And if I do, how do I avoid double-booking myself when someone else asks me to have dinner at the same time and my calendar shows that 6PM isn't booked, that's fine?

In other words, why does Apple think I want to use Greenwich Mean Time, rather than my internal, subjective frame-of-reference, as my clock?

Now, Apple has updated iCal with a "switch timezones off" feature. Which doesn't work.

Here's how it doesn't work: Create an appointment with timezone "support" switched off. Make it from noon to 1PM. Now, go to your system clock and change your timezone to one hour back. The appointment will shift back by one hour. That's with timezone "support" switched off.

If you switch the "support" on and change timezones, iCal will ask you if you want to change the timezone "display" for your appointments. Answering "no" seems to solve the problem, as all of your events will stay localized for whatever timezone you were in when you created them. What's more, whenever you create an event, it gives you the option of specifying a timezone for it and adjusts it on your behalf -- so if you create a 12PM appointment while in EST and specify that its timezone is PST, iCal will move the event back to 9AM for you.

This stinks. For starters, that's all well and good when you and I make a lunch date for noon next week in New York, but it falls down when you call me back an hour later and ask me if we can make it brunch at 2PM -- now I have to go into iCal and work out that my noon-Eastern/9AM-Pacific appointment is really a 2PM-Eastern/11AM-Pacific appointment and, rather than simply bumping a noon appointment to 2PM, I need to subtract three and move a 9AM appointment to 11AM.

It gets worse, though: say you use the timezone "support" and just don't worry about the timezones. All start/stop times stay as you entered them, provided you keep on clicking "no" every time you change zones and iCal asks you if you want to update your display. So far so good. But woe betide you if you create an appointment with an alarm -- your 9AM alarm will ring a 6AM when you're on the west coast (if you created it while your clock was set Eastern), even though it will show up as a 9AM alarm in your calendar. There's a user-hostile design decision!

It gets even worse: Just wait until you synch iCal with your PalmOS device! Last night, I moved from Mountain to Central time. I adjusted the time-zone on my Clie and my Powerbook, but asked iCal to leave all my appointments in Mountain time. Then I made the mistake of synching my Clie: iSync decided that all the appointments in my Clie were an hour behind, and moved them up an hour -- including my wake-up alarm and the alarm for my 8:30AM conference call (Thanks, Apple!).

I have toyed with the idea of leaving my timezone set to GMT or some arbitrary value, and then spoofing my clock by manually setting it forward or back whenever I get off an airplane, but this royally screws up your email (which arrives at the remote end with bogus timestamps that indicates that it was sent hours in the past or the future, depending), and messes up any kind of incremental backup that uses change-dates to determine which version of a file to overwrite.

So, after all that whingeing, I have a solution of sorts. I used to use an app called "iCalTimeZoneFixer" that would automatically adjust your calendar items when you changed timezones, undoing the damage wrought by Apple's system. But with Panther and the new iCal, this doesn't work so good anymore: about 70% of the time, running iCalTimeZoneFixer deletes all the items in my calendar.

So this morning, while I was missing my phone call because my alarm hadn't gone off, I figured out a fix of sorts. It hinges on the fact that your iCal calendar file (which you'll find in ~/Library/Calendars/$CALENDARNAME.ics") is a flat text file, that you can edit with a text-editor like BBEdit.

1. Quit iCal, then make a copy of your calendar file. Open your calendar file in a text-editor (I used BBEdit)

2. Look for the string that denotes the city/timezone your calendar is localized to, i.e. "America/Chicago" or "America/San Francisco"

3. Go to System Preferences -> Date and Time -> Time Zone and use the map interface to find out the name of your desired timezone (i.e., if you're in America/San Francisco on your way to America/Denver, America/Denver is your desired timezone)

4. Search-and-replace the existing timezone string with your desired timezone and save

5. Start iCal up again, then go back to System Peferences -> Date and Time -> Time Zone and change your timezone. iCal will "adjust" your calendar and you'll find yourself looking at the correct times again

There you have it: using a text-editor and search-and-replace, you can undo the stupidest feature I've ever seen in a calendar app. Discuss

8:13 AM | Cory Doctorow

Commencement speaker nearly booed off
stage for anti-Bush rant

Commencement speaker nearly booed off
stage for anti-Bush rant 05/24/2004 04:32 AM
FATHER'S COLLEGE CAMPUS

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Loic Le Meur Blog: Video clip of my rant
on the Future of Business in Europe
panel at the World Economic Forum

Loic Le Meur Blog: Video clip of my rant
on the Future of Business in Europe
panel at the World Economic Forum 05/02/2004 05:40 AM
Loic's rant at the European WEF meeting .. Video

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Charlie Daniels' anti-anti-war rant

Charlie Daniels' anti-anti-war rant 03/15/2003 10:13 PM
Musician Charlie Daniels is disgusted by Hollywood types who oppose Bush's plan to invade Iraq.

You people are some of the most disgusting examples of a waste of protoplasm I’ve ever had the displeasure to hear about.

Sean Penn, you’re a traitor to the United States of America. You gave aid and comfort to the enemy. How many American lives will your little, ”fact finding trip“ to Iraq cost? You encouraged Saddam to think that we didn’t have the stomach for war.

You people protect one of the most evil men on the face of this earth and won’t lift a finger to save the life of an unborn baby.

Freedom of choice you say?

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