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When discussing the first computer - the Mark I at Harvard - a funny exchange:

Letterman: How did you know so much about computers then?"
Hopper: I didn't. It was the first one.

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Another monetary redesign, another flop.

Ugh. The first African American president? And he trumps the first president (of any color, height, weight, etc.) HOW???

Jeez. I don't care what party you support, that's just stupid.

Desktop pictures (wallpapers), .ics, Excel, and other formats, all available now for download from the Penguins site.

Any fall TV shows you plan to watch?

I can't say that there are many (or any?) that I'm looking to watch. I'll continue to watch Bones, Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother, Chuck, Fringe, 30 Rock, Castle, and a few others. I'll pick up a few shows like Blue Bloods and give them a try but I'm not all that interested in picking up too many shows.

I haven't been on it yet, but this looks fun. Too bad Waldameer is closed for the season soon.

I've been playing with it off and on, and I've gotta say I'm impressed. Over 3G I experience no buffering issues, good sound quality, and an incredibly impressive resolution.

These are still frames, so they're going to look blockier than things look in motion, but I still think they're impressively detailed:

Do not speak to me when you see me. If I want to to speak to you, I will do so. I want to save my throat. I don't want to ruin it by saying hello to all of you sons-of-bitches.

More here. Hilarious.

I originally goofed this survey up by not including the proper spacing in the {democracy:##} block, so here it is again:

I've been a lifelong "wallet" guy, but I'm using a MoneyClamp and kinda digging it. If you visit The Sand Trap and reload enough times for the MoneyClamp ad to load (currently on a 50% rotation so you shouldn't have to reload much, if at all), you can save 20% on a MoneyClamp of your choosing.

Anyone do any dissections at home? It seems that a kit - with six to eight specimens to dissect - will run only about $50, and for that price it'll be a really fun thing to do together over the winter.

I've just spent 20 minutes or so adding friends to two lists on Facebook: "Friends & Family" and "Golf."

I thought that posts could be made available to people based on the list in which you've put them, but I can't seem to find that option. Is it available somewhere? Am I missing it somehow?

I'm building a website for a piece of software that I'll be selling shortly. I've read Matt Gemmell's take on software websites and, in general, agree with him.

I will say this, though: a site can change its goals fairly drastically if it's trying to sell $19 software or $500 software, and not always in the ways you'd expect.

For example - and this seems somewhat counter-intuitive - people will often do a lot more "demo testing" of a $19 app and a lot more research poking around the website and such than for a $500 application.

The reason being that with the $500 app they're buying a professional quality app (or one they assume is such). They're likely not spending "their" money (even if they're a sole proprietor) and it's for a business purpose or a hobby they seriously enjoy. For a $19 app, they're spending their own money on some little trinket app that will do some smaller, often non-business-critical function.

When I owned Freshly Squeezed Software, we saw these features borne out in $9 apps versus $59 apps - MailDrop was sold to about ten to twelve people who later discovered that it was a Mac OS X application… something which never happened with any of our other applications. And if you remember the FSS site, all the pages were the same - they had the Mac OS X logo, the system requirements, etc. all in the same places.

As he did last year, Dave managed to finish high enough in the local qualifier for the National Club Pro Championship, which will be played in Hershey, PA next year.

Woo! Congrats to Dave, and I look forward to bettering the top-50 finish we had this year.

Brilliant:

I've always been a big wallet guy, but I've gotta say I'm kinda liking the money clip I've been using lately.

"To insure proper service?" I don't think so.

If "tips" ((As in the money you give to a waiter or waitress.)) was an acronym it would be "teps" because "ensure" is the proper word there, not "insure."

For years one of the club (membership required) restaurants nearby has automatically added a 15% gratuity to the bill. Waiters and waitresses thus didn't have to work to get a tip, and service stunk.

I've heard rumblings that the auto-gratuity will go the way of the dodo soon, and I'm pleased. I've been talking about that for years.