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Look, it's George W. Bush singing "Sunday, Bloody Sunday."

A king is having a feast. His intelligence officer comes up to him 30 days before the feast and tells the king that 1 of his 1,000 bottles of wine had been poisoned by his enemies. The poison kills immediately after 29.9 days, but has no other effects beforehand. The king has only 10 wine tasters. How will he find out which bottle of wine was poisoned in time for the feast?

pal: Hey
me: hi
pal: Do you have a 15" PB?
me: 12
pal: I updated to 10.4.7 and I just noticed that "Use two fingers to scroll" appears in the Trackpad tab of Keyboard & Mouse.
me: on the old ones? hmm.
pal: Yea. There is nothing mentioned about it in the update. Interesting.

Interesting indeed. Can anyone else confirm? I have a 12" PowerBook, but Carey's yet to update it to 10.4.7.

Not only does Kool-Aid do it, but Tropicana Grape pop makes your poo green, too.

And yeah, it's all in how your body metabolizes certain dyes.

Corporate types are so stupid sometimes. Like this time. I'll have to check my local Best Buy to see if it's company-wide.

P.S. Cabel = Little Man. Best Buy = not. Dumb entry title, but so what? It's a blog fer crissakes. It's not like I give this any thought. 😉

Yes, -f overrides -i. But from a pay phone?

I'm starting to dread the words "How about this…" They're always the beginning of an attempt at bargaining by the Little One who runs around this house (and who would like to think she commands the house).

What's worse, her counter-offers are never even close to fair. A few such exchanges:

Parent: Eat five more bites of hot dog and some macaroni.
Little One: How about this… I eat one bite of hot dog and then six marshmallows?

Parent: We're going to brush your teeth and put you in bed.
Little One: How about this… We stay up and watch fourteen episodes of Doodlebops, then we go on a walk around the block?

Parent: We're going to go shopping, then get some McDonald's.
Little One: How about this… We go to McDonald's, then we go to Chuck E. Cheese, then we go to the Golf Dome and then play arcade games?

Parent: You're not listening very well today.
Little One: How about this… You listen to me very well and I will be a good girl?

Question: How many videos appear in your iTunes "Videos" playlist? What are they?

My Answer: Most of mine are music videos (and most free, either with an album purchase or because I encoded them myself), but I have movies, funny video clips, and a few other more serious things in there as well.

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

Question: When did you last attend a funeral?

My Answer: Today, obviously prompting this QotD. My wife's grandfather passed away on Wednesday. She has only one grandparent - his wife - remaining.

You are encouraged to answer the Question of the Day for yourself in the comments or on your blog.

I've said before and I'll say again that nobody really close to me has ever died. I was not terribly close to my paternal grandma or grandmother. I can't fathom being 80+ and knowing that your time is coming soon as you watch your brothers, sisters, cousins, friends, and perhaps even your children (or theirs) pass on. What a sad feeling that must be.

But if there's one thing to be taken from a funeral, or someone's death, it's the thing most of the older people I saw earlier today seemed to exude: that family matters, that one truly should live each day as if it was his last, and that the little things in life matter.

I wonder when the Wii pre-orders be taken by places like EB or GameStop? I'd like to get in early. 🙂

During the winter I started a site at http://billiardsdrills.com/. Obviously, the idea behind the site is to provide tips, tricks, and the occasional puff piece (reviews, interviews, news, etc.).

With the big gaps (i.e. spring/summer/fall, or "golf season") in my own pool playing, the site hasn't been updated in awhile. I'm looking to sell the site - the domain name, the copyrights to all existing images and articles, everything. I'd help with the transition as best as I could.

If anyone is interested, they can contact me via any of the contact methods listed to the right. I have both a "good" price and an "acceptable" price in my mind. The first person with the "good" price gets it or, failing that, the next best offer above the "acceptable" price will get it.

Carey's grandfather passed away a few hours ago after breaking his hip last year and suffering a series of minor strokes in April. It was a relatively short (when compared to other life-ending illnesses) decline, and for that I believe Carey and the rest of her family are relatively happy. Though I'm not the religious sort, I do believe his soul is in a better place.

I didn't have much opportunity to get to know him, as I've only been here in Erie for a few years and they winter in Florida, but I will personally remember him as a man of lively spirit, a sound work ethic, and unflinching principles.

Fare thee well, "Pop Pop."

Suppose you have a whole bunch of data in a Core Data document. How would you choose to export that data to HTML? Would you use XSLT? Would you just do a flat dump of the file? Would you manually create the HTML virtually line by line?

I despise Internet Explorer for Windows. Plus, I don't have a copy of Windows, so… that makes testing things harder.

This page, a temporary page, renders fine in Safari and Firefox, but due to the fact that IE doesn't support negative margins or pseudo-classes on anything but a, it really renders rather poorly in IE.

I have an iTunes gift certificate (admittedly a small one of $10) if someone can generate the HTML/CSS to render the page as it's seen there in all three browsers (Safari/Firefox and IE for Windows). It's likely too that IE for the Mac will work as well.

Of course, you're free to just give hints or ideas. It's likely a rather simple fix (or one coming from a different direction than the approach I've taken). Or at least I hope it is.