Joel’s Scattered Thoughts

I was reading this Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll the other day and thinking about International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day. It seems to me that some of the approaches described in the first article are being used in the second. Rather than avoiding the label, these writers are seizing it and making it their own. This is nothing new - I’ve seen it done any number of ways but it’s always fun to watch (unless you’re the one giving the off-the wall criticism).

Charlie Stross mentioned that he reads ebooks on a Nokia N800. Jaimie keeps asking me to find her a good ebook reader and this looks very good - now I just need the extra $500 or so.

How to Make Homemade Taco-Seasoning Mix

What you need:

* 6 tsps chili of powder
* 4 1/2 tsps of cumin
* 5 tsps of paprika
* 4 tsps of onion powder
* 1/4 tsp of cayenne powder

What to do:

* Mix everything up. You might want to try using a food processor or a grinder for a fine grind.
* Store in an airtight container.
* NOTE: This recipe is twice strong as the store-bought.

Seth’s Blog: I’d ignore him too links to a story about a world class violinist playing in the Washington subway. Pretty much everyone just walked past and ignored him - the biggest crowd he could draw was two-three people who paused to listen. When I lived in Ottawa, there would sometimes be people playing music along paths I would bike or walk along. Sometimes I would stop and listen, sometimes I wouldn’t. I suspect that if I were headed off to work I would have just passed on by.

Seth’s Blog: Memo to the very small gives another project I can do for Tone Ag Consulting Ltd.

Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums > 10 thoughts for 2006
We know exactly where one cow with mad-cow-disease is located among the millions and millions of cows in America but we haven’t got a clue as to where millions of illegal immigrants and terrorists are located. Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in charge of immigration

I’ve run across the Hillbilly Housewife site a number of times. It looks good, but I haven’t tried the recipes.

What Should I Read Next? looks like an interesting site. Mind you, these sites can be rather hit and miss. Maybe I’ll try it out sometime.

Gmail Craze: 40 + Tools and Hacks for Gmail » MakeUseOf.com

Geek to Live: Back up Gmail with fetchmail - Lifehacker

Menu-Mailer looks like a good idea. Something else for me to try rather that our usual dialogue of:
“What do you want for supper?”
“I don’t know. Food?”
“What kind of food?”
“Whatever”

Strategies such as FlyLady.net: Crisis Cleaning have worked well for me in the past. Now if I can just put them into practice…

I may set up some of these macros, especially the warlock DoT one.