http://blog.sessrumnir.net sessrumnir.net Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:00:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hilarious video describing a new laptop by Apple with no keyboard. Apparently keyboards are standing in the way of human progress. Sometimes I forget how funny theonion.com really is. It's right up there with xkcd and dinosaur comics. The MacBook Wheel http://blog.sessrumnir.net/2009/01/06/classic-onion/ When I was little, I was always quite excited by Hyper-Bowls. They sounded like fantastic places to put 5 dimensional cereal. I was devastated to learn the actual pronunciation... http://blog.sessrumnir.net/2008/12/04/hyperbole/ So, those of you in Rochester during November might be interested to know that Hanny's clothing store downtown is having a huge sale this month, mostly because the construction on 1st Ave and 1st St is making it very difficult to see Hanny's at all, or even get to it. ... http://blog.sessrumnir.net/2007/11/20/hannys-the-construction-is-killing-us-sale/ or, Data is cool, and so can you? Everybody likes data, right? Everybody collects databases of the stuff for later analysis; everybody saves all their receipts, just in case, one day, they can get all the data into a computer so that complex statistical analysis can be performed; everybody sets ... http://blog.sessrumnir.net/2007/11/12/mmmm-data/ Another quote from iGoogle's quote-a-day: Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? - Henry Ward Beecher I'm thinking that even these quotes must be given to people based on Google's huge database of knowledge of everyone's habits and behaviors? 'Cause I sure do seem to get a ... http://blog.sessrumnir.net/2007/11/08/the-problem-with-bookstores/ So, everybody likes The Wizard of Oz, right? The quintessential American Fairytale (arguably, one of the only ones). The books are fun to read, and although aimed at children, adults are not uninterested. The movie is a timeless classic. A cornerstone of our modern culture. (I ... http://blog.sessrumnir.net/2007/11/07/yay-zooey/ So, yesterday, it tried really hard to snow here in Rochester, and it did flurry a bit on three separate occasions throughout the day. I was very proud. Soon we'll have real snow, on the ground and everything! Then, I saw Andy's away messages telling me to go look ... http://blog.sessrumnir.net/2007/11/06/snow-and-something-about-canadia-land/ or, Things that you were sure never actually happened in the office break-room, but still are funny. So, I actually saw someone today try to rock the candy machine back and forth to make the bag of M&Ms fall. In the end, it worked for him, but I was almost ... http://blog.sessrumnir.net/2007/11/05/persistence-pays-off/ So, yeah, it had been two months almost. Sorry about that. The longer it got to be, the more frightened I was about blogging. Just too much pressure for a high quality post or two. So, I got that out of the way earlier this week ... http://blog.sessrumnir.net/2007/11/02/sigh-another-apology/ So, today at work, I noticed that I am often a mere fives of inches away from my laptop screen. I am pretty sure I don't actually need to be that close (at the moment I am at least 20 inches away), but over the course of the ... http://blog.sessrumnir.net/2007/10/29/an-interesting-study/