Year: 2003
Great Moments in Data Mining
So there I was at drugstore.com looking for nose-hair trimmers. I found the “Conair Ultimate Nose & Ear Hair Trimmer” which is described as having a pivoting head for “hard to reach and delicate areas.” While pondering what that meant, I noticed that the “Customers who bought this product also bought” list consists of K-Y… Read more
Can I Have That In Writing?
In Best of the Web Today for October 28, James Taranto quotes from a Larry King interview with Michael Schiavo, who is trying to get the hospital to stop feeding his wife Terri, who is in a vegetative state, so that she will die: Schiavo: […] This is Terri’s wish. This is Terri’s choice. King:… Read more
Conscription…what’s up with that?
Over at Reason, Matt Welch is discussing some of the recent history of over-reaching government programs, which brings me to this: Our current system of military draft registration was created in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Now that we’ve helped kick the Soviets out, and the Soviet Union has crumbled and fallen, and… Read more
Damn the Media!
TWELVE YEARS we’ve been bombing Iraq…and Chicago’s WGN cuts off the last 15 minutes of Angel to announce the explosions in Baghdad. It wasn’t even a scoop: they just rebroadcast the CNN feed. Bastards. I called them at (773) 528-2311 at the time to complain. It’s all recorded messages at that time of night, unless… Read more
Been busy…
I’m in the process of converting this site to use XML and .NET because I’m a programmer by trade and I want to learn how. However, I’ve had an actual paying programming job for the last month, and that’s used up all my spare time so I can’t update the site. I’ll be on hiatus… Read more