I always knew I’d hear the name Naomi Matsunobu again. I expected it would be with an announcement of an award, or her curing a disease, or her appointment to the Supreme Court, or something similarly momentous. I didn’t expect it to be with a link to her obituary. I went to school with Naomi, [...]
So much for it being a transparent process. I was just about ready to move my sites to the new provider when I got an email from my old provider, saying that my sites had been hacked because I was using an old version of WordPress, and that if I wanted them back, I needed [...]
Since a couple people have asked, after some comments I made here and there… Yes, we did get married. All official like and everything. The bribes offered by the State and Federal government (in the form of tax breaks and less hassle explaining that I could handle medical decisions) were too much incentive. It overwhelmed [...]
I’ll be moving this site and jbhelfrich.com to a new host over the next couple weeks. Not that there’s much going on or anything, but given that, I shouldn’t be paying as much as I am for webhosting. It should be transparent and all that, once it’s done, though there may be some short downtime [...]
Music Festival Producer Pre-Sues Bootleggers – Something is horribly horribly broken. I think it might be the world. –Joe Tweet
Sign at BP gas station: "Do not leave pumps unattended / You are responsible for spills" Tweet
AZ Gov. Jan Brewer lies … about her father's death – You cannot make this stuff up. –Joe Tweet
Star Wars trilogy retold in 2 minutes, 13 seconds using LEGOs Tweet
Onion: "Supreme Court Upholds Freedom Of Speech In Obscenity-Filled Ruling" – Best. Use. Of. Photoshop. EVER. –Joe Tweet
Apple blocks Pulitzer-winning political cartoonist from iStore for "ridiculing public figures" – How’s this for thinking different? Fuck you, Steve Jobs. Any lingering interest I had in a iPad or iPod touch (if they ever put a decent capacity in them) just evaporated. –Joe Tweet