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I didn't get a weenie there, but I did get a nice bit of homemade custard in a waffle cone.

One of the worst I've seen. I hope they didn't make this mistake on their business card, bank accounts, business records, etc.

Well worth the 15 minutes:

Four for a penny! Now that's a deal!!!

Affecting something can produce effects.

Of course, one can have affectations, too.

Both can be a noun or a verb, but generally affect is the verb, effect is the noun.

I'd give up half of my download speed to double my upload speed. 😛

Let's hope this is fixed before general release.

Update: Oops. It wasn't.

Some links on the Maisel/Baio thing that's been talked about lately.

http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/

http://duncandavidson.com/blog/2011/06/maisel_vs_baio

http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/06/kind-of-screwed.html

http://john-mccoy.blogspot.com/2011/06/sound-of-money.html

I think Maisel had a right - perhaps "artist to artist" - to ask that the cover be pulled. But that's about it. The $32k? Puh-lease. Going way too far there.

IANAL, and I did read some things about "derivative" versus "transformative" that gave me pause. I think the, just based on what I know of those two words, the work was both derivative and transformative. That seems clear to me.

I've decided that, while I work, this summer I'm going to watch the entire series of West Wing ((Or at least up until the point at which Aaron Sorkin left the show and it started to suck.)) in a row.

I may follow that up with Sports Night. We shall see. 😉

Anyone out there know of a good Brainy Smurf icon? I'll even take an easily extractable image. One that's a bit larger than the one on the Wikipedia page.

I wrote about this sync issue back in April but I've finally resolved this nagging issue:

What finally did it?

This KBase article which had me eventually run this:

/System/Library/Frameworks/SyncServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/resetsync.pl full

Thank goodness that's gone. I'm a bit anal about these types of things and that one was driving me nuts.