Comments for Arbitrary Musings http://www.arbitrarymusings.com A smattering of ideas, rants, and raves on subjects large and small Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:40:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 Comment on Bad user-agent string checking by Ankur Jalota http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/08/16/bad-user-agent-string-checking/#comment-45 Ankur Jalota Fri, 17 Aug 2007 05:54:14 +0000 http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/08/16/bad-user-agent-string-checking/#comment-45 LoL. You don't wear your FireFox shirt anymore? How will people know there's important security updates. You were like the walking "live update". I was thinking maybe Safari3 would push to make the web more compliant...but I don't even use Safari on Mac. I'm actually using Camino, since it's based on FF, it's more compatible with most sites. Opera is pretty awesome too, but it's just that it not supported enough that it makes it panful to use (I rmr I used Opera, and when things didnt load, I would use FireFox, and then when that didnt work, I fired up IE). LoL. You don’t wear your FireFox shirt anymore? How will people know there’s important security updates. You were like the walking “live update”. I was thinking maybe Safari3 would push to make the web more compliant…but I don’t even use Safari on Mac. I’m actually using Camino, since it’s based on FF, it’s more compatible with most sites.

Opera is pretty awesome too, but it’s just that it not supported enough that it makes it panful to use (I rmr I used Opera, and when things didnt load, I would use FireFox, and then when that didnt work, I fired up IE).

]]> Comment on Bad user-agent string checking by Peter http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/08/16/bad-user-agent-string-checking/#comment-44 Peter Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:51:35 +0000 http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/08/16/bad-user-agent-string-checking/#comment-44 I don't know what the hell you were just complaining about, but I got your back. Stupid non-changing user-agent string mother fuckers. They'd better hold their F8 keys when they wake up tomorrow morning and start the day off in safe mode, because anyone who writes crap code like that is just begging for a beat-down. I don’t know what the hell you were just complaining about, but I got your back. Stupid non-changing user-agent string mother fuckers. They’d better hold their F8 keys when they wake up tomorrow morning and start the day off in safe mode, because anyone who writes crap code like that is just begging for a beat-down.

]]> Comment on Neil on NPR! by tigerblue http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/08/09/neil-on-npr/#comment-43 tigerblue Sat, 11 Aug 2007 00:51:02 +0000 http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/08/09/neil-on-npr/#comment-43 Yay Neil! Fantastic interview, it's funny hearing his English accent dissolve into Minnehsotah drawl just a bit here and there. Couldn't stop there, though. His mood is infectious. Since I'm not seeing Stardust until Sunday, I dragged Snow, Glass, Apples from Two Plays for Voices along with me to work. It seems to have done the trick, insofar as I'm now sufficiently creeped out to avoid Neil topics for the next day and a half. Beowulf will be fun, too, but not quite the same, especially with Robert "uncanny valley" Zemeckis directing. And I'm definitely bummed that they cut the tree part from Stardust. Yay Neil! Fantastic interview, it’s funny hearing his English accent dissolve into Minnehsotah drawl just a bit here and there.

Couldn’t stop there, though. His mood is infectious. Since I’m not seeing Stardust until Sunday, I dragged Snow, Glass, Apples from Two Plays for Voices along with me to work. It seems to have done the trick, insofar as I’m now sufficiently creeped out to avoid Neil topics for the next day and a half.

Beowulf will be fun, too, but not quite the same, especially with Robert “uncanny valley” Zemeckis directing. And I’m definitely bummed that they cut the tree part from Stardust.

]]> Comment on Neil on NPR! by Hrmph http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/08/09/neil-on-npr/#comment-42 Hrmph Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:46:29 +0000 http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/08/09/neil-on-npr/#comment-42 simply delightful... you're slowly but surely catching the gay bug. simply delightful…

you’re slowly but surely catching the gay bug.

]]> Comment on Foto Friday (or FF#1) by Peter http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/08/03/foto-friday/#comment-41 Peter Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:10:17 +0000 http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/08/03/foto-friday/#comment-41 Hmmm, FF #1...something about that seems vaguely familiar. I have a better idea for you. Since that's awfully close to the well-established FUF pieces on some other blog that's sweeping the nation, here's what you do: From now on, they're SPFs. What the S stands for is up to you. It can be 'stupid,' 'silly,' 'Silver,' or 'streptococcal' even. Then the "Photo Friday" to finish. The cool part of it is that it'll always sound like sunscreen. That's right, Jason, your observations and photos are protecting us from the harmful rays of stupidity and general weirdness out there in the world of signage. Each week, the SPF gets stronger, and we're able to handle the pictures with greater ease and no fear of getting our retinas (ahem) burned by the images. You see what I did there? Man it feels good to be a gangsta. -PT Load Letter Hmmm, FF #1…something about that seems vaguely familiar. I have a better idea for you. Since that’s awfully close to the well-established FUF pieces on some other blog that’s sweeping the nation, here’s what you do: From now on, they’re SPFs. What the S stands for is up to you. It can be ’stupid,’ ’silly,’ ‘Silver,’ or ’streptococcal’ even. Then the “Photo Friday” to finish. The cool part of it is that it’ll always sound like sunscreen. That’s right, Jason, your observations and photos are protecting us from the harmful rays of stupidity and general weirdness out there in the world of signage. Each week, the SPF gets stronger, and we’re able to handle the pictures with greater ease and no fear of getting our retinas (ahem) burned by the images. You see what I did there? Man it feels good to be a gangsta.
-PT Load Letter

]]> Comment on Foto Friday (or FF#1) by Wendy http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/08/03/foto-friday/#comment-40 Wendy Sat, 04 Aug 2007 00:36:57 +0000 http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/08/03/foto-friday/#comment-40 Your Starbucks is better than mine...cranberry orange scones, flat screen tv with a listing of the current music playing. We just get crappy blueberry scones and a display in front of the register of the current CD being played. No fair. Eeeewwwwww re: body fluid cleanup kit! I think there's one of those in one of the office shuttles. I wouldn't want a Zune either. Your Starbucks is better than mine…cranberry orange scones, flat screen tv with a listing of the current music playing. We just get crappy blueberry scones and a display in front of the register of the current CD being played. No fair.

Eeeewwwwww re: body fluid cleanup kit! I think there’s one of those in one of the office shuttles.

I wouldn’t want a Zune either.

]]> Comment on Deceptive advertising by Ankur http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/07/18/deceptive-advertising/#comment-39 Ankur Fri, 27 Jul 2007 21:56:14 +0000 http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/07/18/deceptive-advertising/#comment-39 You know Apple, they are all about making a pristine impression (SteveJ: "just stare into the pretty glowing Apple logo") lol On a related advertising note, Pepsi and Coke will now state that their bottled water is filtered tap water: http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/07/27/pepsico.aquafina.reut/index.html You know Apple, they are all about making a pristine impression (SteveJ: “just stare into the pretty glowing Apple logo”) lol

On a related advertising note, Pepsi and Coke will now state that their bottled water is filtered tap water:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/07/27/pepsico.aquafina.reut/index.html

]]> Comment on Reality shows by Wendy http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/07/23/reality-shows/#comment-38 Wendy Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:19:40 +0000 http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/07/23/reality-shows/#comment-38 America's Next Top Garbage Collector Reality shows are famous for contestants talking trash behind each other's backs. Why talk trash when you can take out the trash instead? This new reality show pits 13 garbage collectors against each other to see who is the most efficient, resourceful, and talented garbage collector in America. Challenges, such as the "Two Pails: One Hand," "Show Me the Rotten Fish," and "I Bet I Can Fit That into the Truck" will send one contestant per week to the dump and crown one as "Trash Master of the Week." The lucky grand prize winner of "America's Next Top Garbage Collector" wins a state-of-the-art solar powered trash compactor, a lifetime contract in their home state's trash collection department, $50,000, and the right to the title of "America's Next Top Garbage Collector." Tune in to get the dirt. America’s Next Top Garbage Collector
Reality shows are famous for contestants talking trash behind each other’s backs. Why talk trash when you can take out the trash instead? This new reality show pits 13 garbage collectors against each other to see who is the most efficient, resourceful, and talented garbage collector in America. Challenges, such as the “Two Pails: One Hand,” “Show Me the Rotten Fish,” and “I Bet I Can Fit That into the Truck” will send one contestant per week to the dump and crown one as “Trash Master of the Week.” The lucky grand prize winner of “America’s Next Top Garbage Collector” wins a state-of-the-art solar powered trash compactor, a lifetime contract in their home state’s trash collection department, $50,000, and the right to the title of “America’s Next Top Garbage Collector.” Tune in to get the dirt.

]]> Comment on Reality shows by Peter http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/07/23/reality-shows/#comment-37 Peter Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:50:52 +0000 http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/07/23/reality-shows/#comment-37 Who Wants To Be a Fighter Pilot? Two teams of eight contestants go through the training regimen and practice drills that real military pilots do and graded by real life instructors. Every week, the lowest scoring member of each team is then put into a real dogfight...with live ammo. The winner automatically earns immunity for the next week. The loser goes home, either with his head hung in shame from ejecting from the cockpit like a pansy...or in a bodybag. Flight simulation? No, this is flight STIMulation! Who Wants To Be a Fighter Pilot?
Two teams of eight contestants go through the training regimen and practice drills that real military pilots do and graded by real life instructors. Every week, the lowest scoring member of each team is then put into a real dogfight…with live ammo. The winner automatically earns immunity for the next week. The loser goes home, either with his head hung in shame from ejecting from the cockpit like a pansy…or in a bodybag. Flight simulation? No, this is flight STIMulation!

]]> Comment on Introducing…Shadow! by Jason http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/07/18/introducingshadow/#comment-36 Jason Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:38:43 +0000 http://www.arbitrarymusings.com/2007/07/18/introducingshadow/#comment-36 Of course, how could I forget them? :) Of course, how could I forget them? :)

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