Another Word for Nerd

Here’s a good Best Buy receipt checker story, Best Buy’s Response, and info on the legality of receipt checks.

Tony, want to pipe up in the comments with your CompUSA door nazi story?

Anybody else notice that McDonalds is promoting their new “Chicken McNuggets” (notice the quotes) on banners at their restaraunts?

I could understand Chicken “McNuggets”, but their strategic placement of the quotation would almost lead one to believe that its just a product name, and not an actual accurate description…

I’ve quit using MT to generate the main index page of this site, instead using it only to generate the entries on the front page. The main index is now a static PHP template that includes the dynamic content like weblog entries and the archives and recent entries list. This way, I can just directly edit the PHP/HTML file to change things like the “Other Weblogs” list without having to rebuild templates.

Apparently people from The Sierra Club can’t read, as one was canvassing our neighborhood this evening, and knocked on our door despite the large “NO SOLICITING” sign (2-inch letters) at eye level on our door.

Currently listening to: Kaw-Liga from the album Greatest Hits by Hank Williams, Jr.

Got the results of some hardware trading in today, a iPaq 3650 PocketPC PDA and a Magellan GPS 2000 handheld GPS receiver. They’re both a few years old, but still fully functional. I’ll need to buy a new battery for the iPaq (around $50), but the screen is in great shape and I just upgraded it to PocketPC 2002 and the latest iPaq ROM.

Ask MetaFilter is yet another “why didnt someone else think of this?” site from the same people who brought you MetaFilter.

It’s interior redecorating time in my “office” (the spare bedroom where the computers and Internet connection are located). Cleaned up around my desk a bit, cleaned cobwebs from the wall/ceiling juncture, and replaced some old posters and a Union Jack flag with these NASA EOS posters, which arrived a couple of weeks ago. I’d requested them about three months ago and forgotten about it until they arrived.

After reading the latest issue of “Combat Handguns“, I’ve decided to never look at this magazine again. Its headlines are almost a male-testosterone-gun-owner version of stuff you might see in supermarket tabloids:

“4 AGAINST 1 SHOWDOWN – You’re Surrounded by Gangbangers – You’re 15-foot .32Auto Equalizer!”
“YOUR DAUGHTER’S UNDER ATTACK – He’s Got A Knife To Her Throat – You’ve got One Shot Across The Bedroom!”

If there exists a sane, non-fanatical monthly publication for owners of firearms, that doesn’t suck up to the NRA and/or take up half its pages with rantings about how our “rights are being taken away” and how everyone needs to join the local militia and carry a gun 24/7/365 because of “unsavory people” who might rob you, let me know because I haven’t been able to find it yet. Yes, we have a right to keep and bear arms, but hysterical propaganda like this is NOT the way to promote it.

Yes, I’m a member of the NRA – but both the NRA and its advocates go overboard when it comes to politics and fanaticism; I stay out of that. I own a gun, let me own my gun and take training courses and shoot at the range and buy ammunition in peace.

Here’s a good argument against having a real christmas tree.

Went to Borders and picked up the latest Wired magazine, the latest “Combat Handguns”, and the 50th anniversary issue of Playboy (January 2004).

I much prefer Playboy from the 70s, when the playmates weren’t all generic dyed-blonde blue-eyed chest-implant clones. Normal women, with normal breasts (big or small) and meat on their bones, please! I detest pinups who look like they’d snap in half like a dry twig if you gave them a bear hug. If I wanted to see bleach and silicone I’d go to to the laundry and plumbing supplies aisles at Wal-Mart.