bcm
chief suspect
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2007-11-14
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2007-11-11
Secret Gardens: Making City Blocks Green to the Core (WorldChanging)
How cool is this? Back yards in densely packed urban blocks are just plain stupid. There’s almost never enough space to take pride in, and from the ones I’ve seen, very few people care for their yards anyway. Do something useful with that space!
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2007-11-09
- 13: 54 < bcm> oh my god
- 13: 54 < bcm> insurance is such a fucking racket
- 13: 54 < bcm> i get my tire slashed, right?
- 13: 54 < bcm> it costs ~$300 to replace the tire
- 13: 54 < bcm> #1 there's a $100 deductible
- 13: 54 < bcm> #2 when i call to file the claim they don't bother to tell me that somebody needs to look at the slashed tire
- 13: 55 < bcm> #3 somebody else has to call me 3 days later to tell me that, after i've had the tire replaced
- 13: 55 < bcm> #4 i have to take the car somewhere else so somebody can look at one of the other tires since i didn't save the slashed one
- 13: 55 < bcm> and the instructions on how to find this place could fill a book
- 13: 56 < bcm> #5 they only reimburse me for the depreciated value of the tire, not the cost of replacing it
- 13: 56 < bcm> so i go through all these phone calls and appointments and driving here and there and i get maybe $50-100 back?
- 13: 56 < bcm> ridiculous
- 13: 57 < bcm> i declare defeat. they won. they made it so annoying to get even the smallest amount of money back that i am not going to bother.
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2007-11-03
Taunt Changes (TankSpot)
Taunt success affected by hit rating in 2.3.
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2007-11-02
OpenSocial: First Impressions (Robert Cooper)
Google didn’t design a spec for interoperability of social networks as much as they built an API for dealing with Google. I don’t think this is what people really wanted here.
Heh. Yea. Google is good at pretending to be interoperable, but only on their terms. In my experience, they are piss-poor at working with people outside of Google on interoperability. To this day, I still can’t get anybody to work with me in a sustained way on figuring out why people can’t subscribe to Cosmo calendars from Google. There’s no dialogue, just arrogance. -
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Just had my car towed. Apparently Tuesday night some merry prankster slashed my tire and those of six other cars on my street and numerous other cars on nearby streets. Spare tire was already in use thanks to an encounter with a giant pothole on Broadway in Oakland a few years back, so it’s off to the shop.
It’s no big deal, though. My lease is just about up, so I’m going ahead with the end-of-lease service appointment and starting the turn in process. For at least the next few months, I will be checking out the various car sharing services. Let me know if you have a favorite!
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2007-10-31
Uncrushable (TankSpot)
Satrina’s excellent guide to uncrushability for tanks. I never knew about the increased miss chance for dual wielding bosses. I’ll be improving my avoidance set to get passive uncrushability on these bosses for sure.
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Open Social: a new universe of social applications all over the web (pmarca)
Does this mean Mimi has to start calling social network containers “MyOpenFace”?
Challenge to Cosmo UI guys: build an Open Social Cosmo app over the weekend.
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2007-10-30
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Today’s run
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2007-10-28
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2007-10-27
Why Credit-rating Agencies Blew It: Mystery Solved (Robert Reich)
What Would Tyler Durden Do?
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2007-10-24
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2007-10-16
