December 22, 2004
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The F-16 fighter has kind of a UI issue. You use the same trigger, in a different software mode, both to mark your position relative to the ground and also to fire on a target. This resulted in a pilot last month accidentally strafing a middle school in Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. Said [...]
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The one nice thing about the depths of darkest winter is that you can be awake when the killer sunrise happens.
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December 22, 2004
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Photos of kids who are scared of Santa Claus Apparently the Chicago Tribune runs a yearly contest where you send in photos of when your parents forced you to go sit on Santa’s lap even though you knew he was going to eat you. Not that I have unresolved issues about this or anything.
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Today marks the winter solstice, the darkest day of the year. Out here in California, we get 9 hours 37 minutes of sunlight today. Because day length is so important to my emotional wellbeing I intend to celebrate the solstice by eating everything in the house and then going to bed at sunset, which today [...]
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Went in for my once-in-a-zillion-years eye exam this morning. Something had to be done; I was having trouble seeing the TiVo. My eye doctor has a new cool machine. You press your eye up against a giant lens, there’s a big flash of green light, and then your retina shows up in bright reds and [...]
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