Check out my spiffy G+ profile under this long-established handle, en_ki. (Sorry, you can't, it's blocked. But rumor has it that this post will lead to it being unblocked.)

I did my fortnightly drop-in to LinkedIn, and had a connection request from an obvious spammer. Their profile information was generic, job descriptions copy/pasted from random places, the job title they claimed to have was not one used at the employer we supposedly had in common, their career trajectory did not make much sense, and their photo was ( Read more... )

They do not give you points for Sitting On A Fire-Ant Hill After Your Run. I'm pretty sure that burned some calories.

Is this:

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You. Yes, you.

Update Flash. Again.Yes, any random web site can completely take over your computer, steal your lunch and piss on your rug unless you update ( Read more... )

1. I have heard approximately 200,000 things about The Hunger Games, some random SF thriller, by people in my social network. (The things I hear are the same things over and over again: apparently it is about a girl who is admirable because things happen to her, and some people in the movie are not white, and there are a lot of racist people on ( Read more... )

Yet Enki risked the anger of Enlil and the other gods in order to save humanity from the Deluge designed by the gods to kill them. In the Legend of Atrahasis-later adapted into a section of the Epic of Gilgamesh-Enlil sets out to eliminate humanity, whose overpopulation and resultant mating noise is offensive to his ears. He successively sends ( Read more... )

siderea asked a few months back how to keep track of separate bookmark collections for work and personal web browsing.

I now have this problem solved to my complete satisfaction with Chrome sync + multiple usersOn both my work and personal computers, I have two users in Chrome: Work (synced with my work account) and Personal (synced with my personal ( Read more... )

http://matociquala.livejournal.com/2127326.html:
"You'd never tolerate somebody talking about me--or any of your friends--the way you talk about yourself."

via http://nancylebov.livejournal.com/541075.html:
It also helped to ( Read more... )

For those who are the type to read it, but haven't read it yet: if you liked Cryptonomicon, you'll like REAMDE. Stephenson is back to writing what I used to think of as The Stephenson Novel (version n), but he's matured a bit, as you'd figure after like 10 years. I liked it, but would be happy to give my hardcover to the next person who wants it ( Read more... )