A Modest Construct

From my brother’s blog

Dear Jesus,

There is very little about you that we know with absolute certainty. One of those few things we can be fairly certain about is that you were executed by the Roman Empire via crucifixion.

There are a lot of different theories about why you were executed, when…

Title pun aside, this is a rather serious matter. My dad had a heart attack this morning. His second, in fact, since he had his first one 10 years ago, at age 37.

I got a call in the middle of Statistics from my mom, who didn’t tell me what happened,…

Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club, among other things, has been reading this new story to audiences on his latest book tour. Supposedly, it has made some of the members vomitous and/or faint. I think it’s pretty freakin’ cool. See for yourself, but consider yourself warned.

Inhale.

Take in as much air…

For those of you waiting for the new webmail service implementation, I have received the following from my hosting company (my explanations are in brackets):

If you look at [my module testing page], you’ll notice we installed everything we could so far except support for Pear. Currently there are issues with…

Step 1: Get a craving for peanut M&Ms.

Step 2: Insert $1 bill into functioning (as indicated by an absence of "Use change" or "Use correct change" lights) vending machine.

Step 3: Insert $1 bill again after it is spit out.

Step 4: Repeat step 3 until frustrated

Step 5: Walk across the street…

I recall with some horror seeing excerpts from a 1950s “How to Be a Good Wife” guide, and marvelling at how very prehistoric and antiquated such a concept was. Perhaps it’s not so very remote from us at all.

School Trains Girls to Be Good Wives

Yikes.

Al Sharpton is for gay marriage. I didn’t believe it, but when he personally told this to a close friend of mine, well, what can I say?

John Kerry is not for gay marriage. He is for civil unions, and for letting the ultimate responsibility for gay marriage’s legality rest upon the states.…

Ok, we do, but we prefer to prolong it as long as possible in favor of writing code, playing games, or otherwise tinkering with our custom boxes. The last week, I’ve installed 5 operating systems (or, rather, 3 OSs 5 times), played games, monitored the aforementioned server switch, and attempted…