Musings of a Chicagoan

My Mac is alive. It has a brain, and, more importantly, it has a sense of humor.
I came across a post from Michael Hanscom’s eclecticism, a silly little meme where you take the next 10 random songs that iTunes plays and add the phrase “In My Pants” to it.
My Mac had some amusing titles [...]

I received an e-mail from my father today, letting me know that my sister discovered an amazing fact, courtesy of this webpage. (And, later, thanks to details available here.)
President Abraham Lincoln was my seventh cousin, five times removed.
He and I have a common ancestor, Edward Gilman II. Edward was my great10-grandfather; he was [...]

“Marshall Field’s will be officially renamed Macy’s the weekend of Sept. 9-10.”
Because, you know, who cares if we’re obliterating the oldest department store brand name in America and pissing off millions of Chicagoans?
(tags: annoying as_hell chicago dumbass corporatism)

iTunesRating
A nice little menulet that lets you rate songs right in the menu bar.
(tags: cool mac useful music)

Another [...]

Godspeed to the original geek.

Don Knotts
1924-2006
Henry Limpet: What if I told you I used to be a human being?
Ladyfish: I don’t care how terrible your past was, Limpet.

You very much need to watch this:
CBS ran an incredibly powerful story tonight that brings you to your feet and just keeps on giving each and every minute into it. Jason McElwain, an autistic high school basketball team member in Rochester NY, served as the coach’s assistant and spirit leader for several years. On the [...]

A blogger points out how the New York Times got an article on Internet terminology entirely wrong.
“Somebody needs to fact-check his ass, because I fear that the echo chamber is likely to repeat this nonsense. Peter Merholz will tell you that blog is short for weblog, and if you could find him, Jorn Barger could [...]

Thought I could upgrade to WordPress 2.0.1 in a few moments without benefit of caffeine early this morning.
Yeah, right.
Corollary: Adhesive 3.0 does not like WordPress 2.0.1, evidently.