mushin no shin

so here we go;
sorry I haven’t written much here lately. I have no greater excuse than simply not having been in the right frame of mind.
Well. Don’t know when I’ll be back, but I’m here. And it’s Saturday night, after Christmas. It’s been a decent one. Thursday with the dad, brother, and brother’s family, at [...]

Man, Netflix is getting really specific. The first “category” on my homepage is now “Dark Tortured-Genius Dramas”.
On a similar track, I’ve always been annoyed that they only give us 5 stars to rate with, no half stars, etc, and usually when I go to rate one I’m thinking, “well this one’s really a 3.5″, etc… [...]

After stumbling to the computer this morning, as coffee medicated a mild hangover from a kickass shindig the agonyzer hosted with his partners in crime to celebrate their success in a damn fine production of A Christmas Carol — my firefox went batshit and commandeered my morning.
Long story short, over the course of maybe a [...]

Dear Internets,
Once again I must lament the lack of a furniture search engine providing advanced searches by dimension.
OK, so, I’m trying to find a tv stand. TV console might be a better description of what I want. Problem is everything I find is either wide and short, or tall and thin. I need medium-tall and [...]

Just a quick interjection here, can anyone use a couple of Dell T0529 compatible black ink cartridges? I’ve got two that were shipped to me by mistake. It’s a remanufactured knock off brand, but I’ve had good results with their epson products. If anyone wants ‘em, say the word.

A nugget of common wisdom in the world of computer programming speaks to the division of programmers into two basic categories (we do like things in binary…) — those who code because they love it, live it, and would be doing it even without the paycheck, and those who do it because someone told them [...]

Let’s keep on with the music posts, but make a sharp left hand turn: Howard Jones
I don’t want to overstate the case — I mean he’s not the Art of Noise, or Falco :) — but I always thought highly of him. Loved New Song, liked many of the others. Certainly enough, at least, that [...]

I feel your pain, Béz.
My part of town is totally on the grid — except for my street, which they decided to skip for some reason. It’s like getting picked last for kickball all over again. But if you could turn down this street here, you’d literally be a stone’s throw away. Well, if it’s [...]

Hee! I’m mentioned in Wikipedia!
(For that same Shai Hulud remix of course that lead to Ego Boost #1)
OK, well they misspelled my name, so I’m going to fix that. Still a fun thing to find.

Sigh. Internet Explorer will be the death of me.
The proper CSS rule should be display:table-row. Firefox like this a lot better and expands the TR without the mangling. But IE for Windows will throw an error, because — unlike its MacIE cousin — it doesn’t support table-row.
A few more things I learned, though I suppose [...]