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Comment on For Sale: Quad Core Mac Pro by Kate

Kate — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:56:26 +0000

For the record, we have decided to keep this one for now. We need someplace to store all the MP3s and other media. Might as well use the hardware we have!

Comment on Oh God, I’m an Adult by aminorjourney

aminorjourney — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 17:09:54 +0000

It’s downhill from here my angel. But that’s good. We can coast!

Comment on Why do [American] straights hate gays? by knome

knome — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:11:29 +0000

*wave*

I’m here to say that not all American straights hate gay folks. We don’t.. in fact I/we (my wife and I) find folks who are biased against gays repugnant. All of our friends feel pretty much the same way.

The reason ‘gayness’ is being pushed as negative in America has to do with Religion, primarily. That, and remnants of the ‘pioneer’ culture brought to America in many waves since the beginning. Pioneers of any stripe generally find gayness to be ‘bad’ because they want their fortunes to increase through their children. THEIR children.

And by the way, lesbians are far, far more accepted than gay men.

Comment on Why do [American] straights hate gays? by aminorjourney

aminorjourney — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:20:45 +0000

It’s easier to have someone to blame than to accept your own weaknesses. Perhaps that’s at the crux of the problem?

Comment on How Things Change by aminorjourney

aminorjourney — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:12:16 +0000

It really doesn’t surprise me. They weren’t the best at what they did…

Comment on Google Reader – Without Suck by aminorjourney

aminorjourney — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:30:46 +0000

Do I have a G-Mail account?

Comment on Men in IT by aminorjourney

aminorjourney — Mon, 15 May 2006 11:45:57 +0000

Of course, this is why I like MacOS X and Unix/Linux.

Comment on Can Santa Be Naughty? by Kate

Kate — Fri, 12 May 2006 13:11:30 +0000

Aw, blast. Even possessing one of these can get you 5 years in the UK. Pout!

Comment on Tony Snow As White House Press Secretary? by Kate

Kate — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 15:25:18 +0000

Oh dear goddess, it’s actually true: http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-04-26-voa24.cfm.

Comment on New Developer Motivation Technique: Beatings! by Kate

Kate — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:26:29 +0000

Okay, this one is just icing on the cake:

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(”Partner ‘” + Id + “‘ is missing the following list type: ‘”);

He was going tot he trouble of actually using the StringBuilder class and he *still* managed to fuck it up. That little jem will create 5 strings in memory, all of which will have to be garbage collected.