Author: Jesse

Please stop inviting me to FaceBook. 8

Please stop inviting me to FaceBook.

Every couple of weeks, I get FaceBook invitations landing in my mailbox. This is in addition to a bunch of e-mail notices from MySpace and some sporadic ones from LDSLinkup, LinkedIn and Friendster. Orkut doesn't bug me too much, but...

Did Mark Towner Forge an E-mail From George Will? 24

Did Mark Towner Forge an E-mail From George Will?

As the magic 8-ball would say, "all signs point to yes". An e-mail just showed up in my inbox (and probably in many of your inboxes) with a From address of [email protected]. It contained a verbatim cut-and-paste of his recent...

Skipping Halloween 9

Skipping Halloween

Yes, it's true. Shauna and I skipped Halloween. We didn't carve our pumpkin. We didn't give out candy. We didn't even answer the door any of the times it was knocked on. (Note to kids: if all of the lights...

Social Blunder #32 0

Social Blunder #32

If you don't want to wear underwear while riding your bike, that's your prerogative. But please, for the love of everything good in this world, don't wear ripped jeans that advertise it to everyone in sight.

Lessons in Automotive Care 8

Lessons in Automotive Care

I have a really bad habit of leaving my car's headlights on. This ordinarily wouldn't be a problem since most cars have a "you left your lights on, retard" feature. This feature, however, is moot when the little door sensor...

Some Dynamite Chicken 10

Some Dynamite Chicken

I decided to try my hand at making a roast chicken tonight. Yes, it's true: I had never really roasted a whole chicken before. I usually took the lazy route to buy one of those grocery store birds in the...

Help Get a Puppy Adopted 2

Help Get a Puppy Adopted

Jason The over at The Sidetrack found a stray puppy in need of a home. If you know anyone who'd be interested in adopting what appears to be a 2-month-old collie/German shorthair mix, please go over there and let him...

Spam Wars: Revisions, Part 1 4

Spam Wars: Revisions, Part 1

As you all know, I've been doing some work to try and find a way to shut down spam here in Utah. After some feedback on the original proposal and some requests from Sen. Niederhauser, I've come up with the...

Voucher Math, Part 2 5

Voucher Math, Part 2

The number crunching done in the last Voucher Math post really helped me see how big of a difference the switch rate can be even with just minor changes. What I was hoping to establish is the need to replace...