Aug 11 2005
Fearmongering. Idiotic fearmongering. You know (or maybe you're fortunate enough not to know), those emails people send that are all FWD:fwd:Fwd:Re:DANGER! And then go on to describe a more or less completely implausible scenario in which you will be knocked out and sold into slavery, infected with AIDS or some other dread disease, or killed, …
Aug 08 2005
According to a recent press release: UC Riverside now has more than 17,000 students, 2,000 staff members and nearly more than 800 faculty members. Um. Nearly more than? So, exactly 800, then? Proofread, people--always proofread.
Jul 29 2005
When I was little, just about every grade in elementary school "science" included a unit on dinosaurs, probably because (a) kids think dinosaurs are nifty and (b) there are excellent museums in the tri-state area that feature dinosaurs, and possibly (c) they had a special government grant to produce a crop of paleontologists? if so …
Jul 22 2005
It really bothers me when someone says that a show portrays [X group of people] negatively because [character who is a memer of X group of people] did something wrong. For example, from and MSNBC article about Desperate Housewives: "Almost all of the portrayals of gay people are on the negative side," Aterovis said. Among …
Jul 20 2005
Word 2004 has a function to extract pictures from Word docs and save them to a folder. Word X does not. But this doesn't mean that you can't extract pictures from Word docs in Word X--because Preview, the pdf/image viewer, has a function to create a new document from the clipboard. Fancy. So you copy …
