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Colorado Driver’s License == National ID Card

May 17th, 2006 · 8 Comments

My Montana vehicle tags expire at the end of this month. In the interest of neatly compartmentalizing official Colorado residency duties, I decided I should also get a Colorado driver’s license around the same time I get Colorado plates. Thus, I headed to the Colorado DMV website to learn what I should bring […]

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Tags: Politics · Rant

Bad Defensive Design for the Web

November 5th, 2005 · No Comments

37Signals would be aghast at TIAA-CREF’s take on defensive design.

Firstly, an error message is displayed when a I initially go to the client log-in creation page. Hmmm, I thought to myself. Some functionality isn’t working apparently, but the form is still there, so I must be able to continue. Wrong. […]

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Tags: Rant · Geek

A Letter to the Random Dude Walking Down the Street

August 10th, 2005 · No Comments

Dear Random Dude (I had a better name for you, but I thought I best not post it here),
Yes, I was getting parking lot passes well after they are necessary. Why? Because I didn’t want to run out to the lot early tomorrow morning in my pajamas and sloppy hair just to put passes […]

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Tags: Random · Rant

Seeing Shades

August 8th, 2005 · No Comments

The following piece was spotted today in a Gawker note on the death of Peter Jennings:

Jennings was an anchor for the blue states. This is not to say that his politics leaned one way or another, or that he somehow provided a friendlier newscast for liberal causes than for conservative ones; we have no idea […]

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Tags: Politics · Rant

The ONE Campaign

April 24th, 2005 · 5 Comments

You’ve probably seen the commercial. Various celebrities including Cameron Diaz, Bono, and Brad Pitt flash on screen in a subdued black and white tint trying to mobilize us to some action. At the end Brad assures us that they “don’t want your money, we want your voice.”
Already skeptical of the campaign, I visited […]

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Tags: Economics · Rant

Enough already

November 9th, 2004 · 3 Comments

Just a few minutes ago, I came across something that made me so mad that I had hot tears pricking at the back of my eyes. Anyone that knows me well knows that I DO NOT cry.
Go check this link out and come on back. I’ll wait here.
Why people? WTF!? It’s […]

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Tags: Rant · Election 2004

It’s my weblog and I’ll rant if I want to

August 5th, 2004 · 3 Comments

Things bothering me right now:

The color black
The color pink
The words liberal, conservative, Democrat, and Republican
A "Missing Argument 2" error
Stuff

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Tags: Rant