Plenty. IT folks are a passionate lot who gets agitated over an Apple, excited about anything big, powerful and sexy, and offended by any remote reference to a four-letter word (we mean “geek”, or “nerd”, mind you). And yes, IT folks do have a strange fascination with four-letter words. From BIOS to SCSI to EULA,… Read More: What’s love got to do with IT? »
Spotted on the menu of Figaro Coffee Company: Cappuccino: 105 pesosDecaf: add 15 pesos
Since we on the subject of romance, here’s something to convince you that marriage is not a word; it’s a fucking sentence!The 10 Commandments of MarriageCommandment 1 Marriages are made in heaven. But so again, are thunder and lightning. Commandment 2 If you want your wife to listen and pay strict attention to every word… Read More: Don’t get married; get even »
For Valentine, a pagan priest who lived during the grotesque Roman persecution against Christians, love was more than the mushy stuff we think of today. It was above sentimental feelings or infatuation. It was deeper than sexual attraction or physical desire. It is not based on circumstance, climate, clothes, character or come-ons. It is a… Read More: Overdose of Valentine’s crass commercialism »
In case you’ve downloaded Google Desktop 3 beta, here’s an article at ZDNet about a newly-added feature that may pose “serious privacy implications“. Apparently, the new version allows users to search for files across multiple computers, by storing copies of the user’s documents on Google’s servers. So if the servers are compromised by hackers, there… Read More: Privacy concerns over Google Desktop »
I was reading American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and it suddenly dawned on me that the choice of Christian Bale as Batman in Batman Begins was, to put it in Ellis’ term, “premeditated”. In the chapter titled “Nell’s” (page 206, Vintage Contemporaries, paperback), there is a paragraph that goes: “Daisy! And Patrick, you devil!”… Read More: Probably how “Batman Begins” began »