Rants
If you want gas prices to go down, use less gas
I’m both amused and annoyed by the various schemes going around by email to lower gas prices. I got two today: one that’s calling for a don’t-buy-gas day and one that’s calling for a boycott of a specific chain.
Clearly people don’t really get the whole supply-and-demand thing. Demand is still demand, regardless of [...]
A reminder about my personality
Just in case I forget (again), I’d like to state for the record (and hopefully for future reference before I sign up for something contrary to this note):
I do not like open-ended projects. I like finite tasks, things that can be checked off a list and marked “done.”
Any chance I’ll remember this the next [...]
Vocabulary review: “humbled” vs. “honored”
Why do people think these words are synonymous?
Look them up: humbled vs. honored
Funny, to me they seem to be kind of… um… opposites. And yet…
The response has far surpassed our expectations and we are extremely humbled by the huge interest.
That quote seems typical lately of the kind of stuff I see by developers of [...]
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