Monthly Archives: June 2003

My Fortune

Posted on June 28, 2003 by Joey Gibson

I got this from my fortune cookie tonight at the Mah Jong Chinese restaurant in Snellville: Promote literacy. Buy a box of fortune cookies tonight. Somewhat amusing…

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Kata 6

Posted on June 27, 2003 by Joey Gibson

I took a swipe at implementing Dave Thomas’ Kata 6 which is an assignment dealing with anagrams. The goal is to parse a list of 45000-ish words, finding all the words that are anagrams of other words in the file. … Continue reading →

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The Food Industry Strikes Back

Posted on June 27, 2003 by Joey Gibson

In an effort to inform and entertain people about the spate of ridiculous lawsuits being filed by lard-asses against McDonald’s and other food makers for “making people fat”, a food industry group is launching a series of ads that mock … Continue reading →

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Excellent Weigh-In!

Posted on June 27, 2003 by Joey Gibson

Last night I went to my Weight Watchers meeting and discovered that I had lost 2.2 pounds! So now I’m 0.2 pounds lighter than I was before the funeral weekend. And that’s a good thing.

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Letterman Funny

Posted on June 26, 2003 by Joey Gibson

Last night David Letterman‘s Top 10 List was the “Top Ten Things The Iraqi Information Minister Has Admitted Since Being Captured”. My favorite was number 10: Okay, Iraq didn’t win the war. It was a tie. I almost sprayed Pepsi … Continue reading →

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I Hate Fade-Outs…

Posted on June 25, 2003 by Joey Gibson

I really hate songs that end by just fading out instead of coming to an end. It always strikes me as a cop out; the composer couldn’t think of a good way to end it, so they just turn down … Continue reading →

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“Free” WiFi

Posted on June 24, 2003 by Joey Gibson

I found two links to this BusinessWire story this morning; one at /. and the other at Boing Boing about the island country of Niue rolling out nationwide “free” wireless networking. Why can’t people understand that nothing from the government … Continue reading →

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Big in Nigeria… Update!

Posted on June 24, 2003 by Joey Gibson

Yesterday I wrote about how I had gotten two emails trying to get me to help get loads of cash out of Nigeria and Senegal. I replied to one of them with a single line: “Blow me.” Believe it or … Continue reading →

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Pain and Stupidity

Posted on June 24, 2003 by Joey Gibson

Pain = Broken toe. Worse Pain = Trying to ride a mountain bike with a broken toe and dismounting quickly to keep from hitting my son, landing squarely on the aforementioned broken toe.

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Big in Nigeria… And Senegal

Posted on June 23, 2003 by Joey Gibson

I’ve gotten two 419 Scam emails just this morning. One was from the traditional Nigeria, while the other was from Senegal. The first, the Senegalese one, had some of the worst spelling I’ve ever seen. This asshat tells me he … Continue reading →

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Not a Good Weigh-In

Posted on June 20, 2003 by Joey Gibson

Headed out to my weekly Weight Watchers meeting last night and got some bad news… a 2 lb gain. Drat! Several factors contributed to this… the funeral over the weekend and all the food constantly being delivered and the fact … Continue reading →

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First Cut At Kata 8

Posted on June 20, 2003 by Joey Gibson

Dave Thomas of the Pragmatic Programmers has started publishing programming problems, calling them Kata. He’s just published Kata 8 this morning and I’ve had a go at a solution. The problem is to take a supplied list of words and … Continue reading →

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Are You Ready?

Posted on June 19, 2003 by Joey Gibson

This is a few months old, but I just rediscovered it and laughed by head off. It’s a “re-captioning” of the emergency icons from www.ready.gov; the site that The G has put up to tell folks what to do in … Continue reading →

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Watchblog Is a Y! Pick

Posted on June 19, 2003 by Joey Gibson

If this post is dated before 2011, I almost certainly do not agree with its contents any more. I had a profound philosophical shift that began in early 2010, which ultimately left me somewhere left of center. Please disregard all … Continue reading →

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Writebacks Enabled

Posted on June 18, 2003 by Joey Gibson

I’ve enabled a Blosxom feature called “writebacks” on the blog, which is basically a comments system. I had been using the TrackBack feature before, but I think it may have confused people because it was being used in a non-normal … Continue reading →

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Isn’t This a “Hate Crime?”

Posted on June 18, 2003 by Joey Gibson

If this post is dated before 2011, I almost certainly do not agree with its contents any more. I had a profound philosophical shift that began in early 2010, which ultimately left me somewhere left of center. Please disregard all … Continue reading →

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Watch WatchBlog.com

Posted on June 16, 2003 by Joey Gibson

If this post is dated before 2011, I almost certainly do not agree with its contents any more. I had a profound philosophical shift that began in early 2010, which ultimately left me somewhere left of center. Please disregard all … Continue reading →

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Weigh In For June 12

Posted on June 16, 2003 by Joey Gibson

Some of you who know me know that I’ve been battling my weight for years. Tammy and I have been Weight Watchers members for two years now, and I had lost a ton of weight, but then fell into a … Continue reading →

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I Need a “Favorite Icon”

Posted on June 16, 2003 by Joey Gibson

Everyone seems to have nifty little icons for their websites that show up in the address bar and on their bookmarks. I need one for my site, but I can’t think of anything. Does anyone have any suggestions? (And no, … Continue reading →

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A Vision At the Funeral

Posted on June 16, 2003 by Joey Gibson

As I mentioned here we had to head out Saturday for a funeral. It was yesterday at 15:00 in Milledgeville. The service was nice, if a bit generic. But during that service I was struck with a vision that was … Continue reading →

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