The best damn response to the “ex-gay” “movement” EVAR.

[note use of ironic quotes in title.] I really can’t add anything to this patient-yet-powerful rebuttal that hasn’t already been said. (Thanks Quev for the link.) How Not to Make Me Ex-Gay

CardSystems loses Visa agent status

You may remember new reports about the credit card numbers that kinda got stolen from a Tuscon processor (if not, read up)… well, today Visa kicked CardSystems out of their system. So CardSystems can now no longer process Visa cards. All I would like to know is why the fuck this took so long. Hi [...]

No, really, I’ll pay attention next time.

I had SUCH a good post started, but managed to close that tab before doing anything with it and I can’t remember all that was in it so now it is gone. ‘Scuse me while I mourn for it… <mourns> OK, done now. Back to stuff. Blork shows us tasty fare. Those mushrooms sound especially [...]

Making a better car A/C unit

A certain geeky site (hint: they named an effect for it) directs us to this Salt Lake Tribune story about a couple HS kids who created a new style of car air conditioning unit. It’s cheaper, smaller, more efficient, and more environmentally-friendly than existing units, because it uses the thermoelectric effect (aka Peltier effect) to [...]

ennui, malaise, etc.

Just not motivated to do any “real” work today… so fiddling with the blog instead, and astroturfing the company Intranet forums. (Hey, SOMEBODY has to get content on there.)