FEMA does a fake press event about how well they’re handling the California wildfires – but the “reporters” are FEMA staff members, who, of course, are feeding softball questions.
Wired’s blog about why twitter is an excellent tool in emergency situations to let everyone know quickly how you are, with the lowest possible bandwith use, and without overloading cellular services.
Read this story about health care in the U.S. and find out why the Republicans who voted against SCHIP are a bunch of retarded fucking morons. Then pray this doesn’t happen to you, because you’re 2 steps away from it.
I actually know how to build websites (unlike novels, which I seem to be unable to achieve).
B. I promised her I’d do it months ago.
It will be fun, and not stressful, like trying to write a novel was.
D. Chi is an actual published writer, so, it’s LIKE I’m getting some writing done, because I’ll be helping her.
So, that’s my grand plan for National Novel Writing month – to once again NOT get a novel written, only this time with less stress and some actual pretty, creative stuff to show for it at the end of the month.
One of the best things about working for a big corporation is that you get to see real life examples of the Peter Principle in action. For example, I actually really received this as a note on a design I’m working on for a couple people very high up in our company:
Add a search result to the bottom of the list that represents a community contribution. The price should be “free”. See “Microfinance – community content” below for content. You should not elongate the page, but rather shrink the “Source” column and those graphics to as small as possible, and enlarge the “Summary” column. That should give you enough room.
Yes. Yes it should. If I were designing a book, poster or flyer, rather than a website. Sigh.
IU law student shoots his textbook and shuts down his apartment complex for hours. I heard IU law was an unpleasant major, but dude, that book did nothing to you.
Impressed by their piety, courts have permitted the Amish to live outside the law. But in some places, the group’s ethic of forgive and forget has produced a plague of incest—and let many perpetrators go unpunished.
Photos of my new Truck Camper Shell
Not sure if mentioned this yet or not – I bought a used camper shell for my truck to replace the tonneau cover that was such a pain in the butt to put on. I got it from someone through Craigslist – I’m glad that site is really taking off here in Indianapolis; there’s lots of great stuff on there now.
