Brain Drippings

In a recent Op-Ed piece in The New York Times, Jennifer Finney Boylan wrote about the sloppy state of marriage in the US, especially in the case of transgender people. (continue reading…)

When I was a child there was a riddle that went something like this:

A man and his son are in a car accident and are seriously injured. They are both unconscious when they arrive at the hospital.  The son is sent into surgery and the doctor says, “I can’t operate, this is my son.” How is that possible? (continue reading…)

I’ve been using Safari off and on since it first came out in parallel or in place of Firefox. I used it exclusively for quite some time because Firefox did not support the OS X keychain, but now I have 1Password, so that is not an issue.

Well, the 4.0 version of Safari has finally been released and it features a lot of improvements. In fact, with the addition of Glims and Adblock and ClicktoFlash it is a worthy replacement for Firefox in nearly every regard. However, there is one thing that I really hate in Safari, and that is how it handles typing in the address field. (continue reading…)

Apple announced some new pricing on it’s MacBook Pro 15″ models, along with the addition of FireWire  800 and and SD slot.

• $1699 – 2.53 GHz 4GB DDR3 250GB 9400M Graphics,
• $1999 – 2.66 GHz 4GB DDR3 320GB 9400M + 9600M GT
• $2299 – 2.8 GHz 4GB DDR3 500GB 9400M + 9600M GT

But the biggest announcement is that the 13″ MacBook has been upgraded to MacBookPro with the addition of FireWire 800 and the aformentioned SD slot and up to 8GB of RAM. And this MacBook Pro?  yeah, it starts at $1199. Outstanding!

Oh, and the update to Snow Leopard (10.6) is coming in September for $29. Yes, TWENTY-NINE, not $129.

Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.

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