The little things in life.

The little things in life.

• James Spahr: “I’ve had several conversations with students that in the last 24 hours that deal with issues of superficial morality.” One professors hilarious non-missed opportunites to talk straight with his students about good and evil.
• Sidesh0w: On joining a book club because he’s 26. “Which, if you math good (which I do not), infers that I am two-fifths of a decade from 30, which in turn places me at seventy-five percent of the way toward forty. So, rather than slouching toward middle-age crises in a lackadaisical way over the next fourteen years, I’m going whole hog into the experience now. Ergo, bookclubs.”
• The Dead Parrot Society has discovered that digital images of the front page of the New York Times are available on their website for every day since Jan 21. 2002. Very nice. Here’s the front page from my birthday this year. Musta been a slow news day.
• Matthew Haughey bemoans the our continued reliance on paper receipts as proof of purchase. “We live in a mechanized, computerized society. Every purchase from my debit/credit card is a sophisticated, multi-step electronic shuffling of digital cash from my bank to a store, and everything I buy in a store is recorded in a database, backed up redundantly, and analyzed, but in the end, I’m given a pointless piece of paper that stands as my only proof of our transaction, despite the deep data trail formed between me and a store.” Amen to that! I had to return a VCR to Circuit City last year and nearly went into shock when they didn’t ask for my receipt. Just my phone number. Why doesn’t everything work like that?
• And on a somewhat related note, the FCC has clarified that the new phone number portability rules apply to land-lines also. Very cool! Combine that with the new Do Not Call Registry and things are looking for for telephone usage.
• And finally, I’m not sure if we’ll be able to make it before we head to Florida for Christmas and it will be gone by the time we get back, but I would really like to see The One-Man Star Wars Trilogy. It’s showing at the The Noble Fool theater downtown. See accompanying mini-review and copious discussion over at the Slashdot for more.

Xian 02:32 AM, 11.14.03 - p-link