Posts from 2006 (Page 22)

233 posts from 2006

May 02, 2006
Random Funniness

Drunkenbatman on the Notion of Marriage

I was just chatting with Drunkenbatman on Messenger. What follows is a lightly edited copy of our conversation. drunkenbatman says: was dealing with some wedding stuff aaron says: huh? aaron says: who’s getting married? drunkenbatman ...

May 01, 2006
Politics

Stephen Colbert' Fantastic Zingers

Taken from the transcript at Daily Kos: Now, I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don’t pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that refle...

Apr 07, 2006
Personal Life

Ticketmaster = Spawn of Satan

I’ve been going (and will be going) to quite a few concerts recently - Coldplay, Ben Lee, Belle and Sebastian/New Pornographers, Sigur Ros, Snow Patrol, etc (not the Arctic Monkeys, though, sadly). The one thing each show has in common is that I p...

Mar 31, 2006
Politics

It' What Makes Us Better Than Them

Stodgy Seattle corporate law firm, Perkins Coie, is defending Osama Bin Laden’s former bodyguard and chauffeur. The rationale: Yes, they’re helping a suspected terrorist. But it’s not an example of “you’re with us or you’re with them.” It’s what m...

Mar 21, 2006
Politics

Patriotism

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serv...

Mar 18, 2006
Personal Life

Apartment Furnishings

The following is a list of things I still want to acquire for my apartment. This list exists for me, in order to allow me to easily track this stuff: Mirrors for behind couch Espresso-finished ottoman Media cabinet TV stand Speaker sta...

Feb 26, 2006
Personal Life

Elize and More Pictures

Elize got married yesterday in a very-sudden fashion. It was a small ceremony; not more than 15-20 people. I hadn’t seen a few of the people there in years, literally. It was great to see Elize’s parents again, along with NJ and Melissa. I posted...

Feb 25, 2006
Developer Tools

Stupid Issue with OCUnit

I hit an issue with OCUnit the other day when I was trying to get a project of mine working correctly with it. The issue was that using the macro STAssertEqualObjects anywhere would cause the following build error: error: parse error before ‘type...