I think that was a neurontin I swallowed. Used to take those. Boy that was really stupid. Santa came. He brought a gun.

Having awoken to Christmas morning from a strange, alcohol fueled nightmare involving CIA agents who control people with heroin, I found my sister still sleeping and so I popped on to twitter to kill some time. Blurry eyed and having absolutely no idea what neurontin is and no context for this tweet because I hadn't seen your earlier comment about your foot hurting, I imagined wanton Christmas carnage had occured at your home under the influence of randomly selected psychedelics. The sort of Christmas story you'd get from a tag team of Quentin Tarantino and William S. Burroughs. So, thanks, I guess, for the strange mental image which I hope is the furthest thing from the truth. :)

Twitter / skullaria: I think that was a neuront ...

"What was it?" asked mamma. "Saint Nicholas?" She smiled.

"Yeah," I said.

She sighed and turned in the bed.

"I saw him," I said.

"Sure."

"I did see him."

"Sure you saw him." She turned farther toward the wall.

Delightful. The history of the original poem linked at the end is also interesting.

A Visit from Saint Nicholas In The Ernest Hemingway Manner by James Thurber

ubernoir wrote:
merry christmas

Well, you could have AT LEAST bothered to capitalize that! :) Are you already up for Christmas morning there? Its 8PM on Christmas eve where I am. I hope everyone is having a good holiday.

RE: 25th December

A collection of brief "vision statements" for government funded computing research.

Computing Research Initiatives for the 21st Century

Acidus wrote:
You trying the Ubuntu thing again?

I never actually switched to ubuntu the last time I declared OSX my nemesis. Basically, my mac came back from the shop and I kept using it and didn't have time to switch. Recently, I installed ubuntu on a box in order to investigate something. So far, I'm very happy with it. It automatically downloads proprietary drivers for hardware devices, making it arguably easier to setup than Windows. Everything seems to work properly, so I've actually been using it. With PC laptops available at a fraction of the cost of macs, this is a very reasonable option at this point.

My only real complaint so far is that is that MemeStreams' fonts look terrible on it. Ghastly. Thats probably my fault, but I'm not sure how to fix it.

U: Setting subpixel smoothing with full hinting seems to have improved things considerably, but the text still seems to be rendered smaller that it ought to be.

RE: Bookmarks not saved - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

The rolls of companies nipping at labor costs with measures less drastic than wholesale layoffs include Dell (extended unpaid holiday), Cisco (four-day year-end shutdown), Motorola (salary cuts), Nevada casinos (four-day workweek), Honda (voluntary unpaid vacation time) and The Seattle Times (plans to save $1 million with a week of unpaid furlough for 500 workers). There are also many midsize and small companies trying such tactics.

Three points:
1. Hopefully this non-structural cost cutting is intended to be temporary.
2. If its not, this might be how we get to a 30 hour work week.
3. You can expect companies doing layoffs to continue to lobby Congress for H1B under the pretext that they cannot find people to fill jobs.

naked capitalism: Wage Deflation Underway

If changes to bookmarks are not being saved after restarting Firefox 3, reset the browser.places preferences to the default settings: [1] [2] [3]

Had this problem out of the box on Ubuntu. All these said "user-set" but I had not set them. Strange.

Bookmarks not saved - MozillaZine Knowledge Base

The city has partnered with Agnes Scott College, City Schools of Decatur, Columbia Theological Seminary and the Downtown Development Authority to build a citywide wireless network.

Decatur Muni Wifi

Not one to be outdone by the likes of PlayStation Home, World of Warcraft, or even that cesspool of flying dildos Second Life, the city of Decatur, Georgia might be going virtual.

The virtual city, or "Virtual Decatur" as the fine elected officials of Decatur are calling it, would be a networking hub for the city as part of a greater overall effort to boost the economy.

You've got to be fucking kidding me.

Virtual Worlds: City of Decatur, Georgia Mulling Virtual World Interface

It's good to have a plan, but if something extraordinary comes your way, you should go for it.

I'm enjoying Noteworthy's summary of various MemeStreams discussions from this year in the linked thread.

A Noteworthy Year