Tag Archives: history

Poor Franz

October 3, 2009

It’s a sad day when a random one-hit wonder band who stole your name gets a higher page rank in Google than you do. Poor Franz Ferdinand. I’ll bet he’s rolling in his grave. He should Black (back)Hand that band.

As We Go Marching First Edition

August 17, 2008

I ordered a first edition (1944 Doubleday) of John T. Flynn’s As We Go Marching, which is an interesting book I’m half-way through. I found a curious letter inside from one Andrew W. Wilson…

Thomas Jefferson Bookmarks!

June 29, 2008

Here’s some nice bookmarks to remind you of the beliefs of the great Thomas Jefferson: Update! An interesting turn of events – it seems you really can’t trust quote sites! See here Originally, I had this quote: A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. This, apparently, is a false quote. I apologize. The new quote: If the American people ever allow private banks to [...]

Another new blog name

August 26, 2006

Well, I got rid of Relentless Pineapple and went for something a little more code related. So I came up with this: "Score"*4 && 7.years.ago Liberty.conceive(Nation.new) if Man.create == Man.create The awesome part is you could actually run this in Ruby! :O irb(main):001:0> require ‘active_support’ => true irb(main):002:0> "Score"*4 && 7.years.ago => Thu Aug 26 21:12:10 AKDT 1999 Yes, I know the date isn’t right, but it’s the thought that counts :D. It references this great statement: “Fourscore and seven [...]