Doug

Doug

Husband & father with youngins; Presbyterian; Will devops for boardgames; Dadjoke Enthusiast; Longtime WordPress user; The failure mode of “clever” is...

Top Ten Rejected New Jersey Slogans

In local news, New Jersey “Don’t Call Me Acting” Governor Dick Codey revealed NJ’s new state slogan yesterday: “New Jersey: Come See For Yourself”. However, there was little discussion of the entries that weren’t selected. We here at Literal Barrage…

I Possess Rare Talent

How else to explain the fact that I managed to injure my thumb yesterday when trying to open a pistachio, so much so that it pains me even to type these very words? I don’t care who you are, a…

Good Advice From Slate

I stumbled across an article over on Slate (by way of a Slashdot story) that attempts to answer, in a nutshell, the essential question PC users the world over ask themselves “Why can’t Microsoft get security right?”. The article, unfortunately,…

Best Line I’ve Read In Ages

From Powerline’s rough transcript of today’s Alito confirmation hearings comes the following gem of an exchange: […][SPECTER:] Do you agree that Casey is a super-precedent or a super stare decisis, as Judge Luttig said? ALITO: Well, I personally would not…

All Hail Jobs!

MacWorld ’06 started today, and what did Steve Jobs announce but the very first Intel-powered Macintoshes. One was the iMac, as predicted, the other was the newly-christened MacBook Pro, starting at $1,999. Of course, the base model is for poseurs…