Indistinguishable from Jesse

I came up with several new "matching questions" for OkCupid with some help from Val, but OkCupid decided not to use them.

Which is most important in a desk chair?

1. Rolls easily.
2. Spins fast enough to make you dizzy.
3. Makes you look important.
4. Ergonomic for oral sex.

Which score on the Slut Test is a "failing" score?

1. 10% Slut.
2. 90% Slut.
3. Both.
4. Neither.

What does lol *really* mean?

1. Chuckling quietly to myself.
2. Everyone within earshot wonders what's so funny.
3. End of sentence, like a period.
4. I have thrown up my hands in surrender.

Google launched a free 411 service just in time for my move from San Diego to Mountain View. I found it useful, but it could have been even more useful if it:

• Gave better location information for things in malls. For example, the Goodwill donation spot at 570 Showers Drive would be better described as "in the parking lot near Mervyns and near Showers Drive".
• Knew the difference between Goodwill stores and Goodwill donation spots.
• Knew how to answer questions like "Where can I find a Denny's along I-5 North within the next hour?", rather than simple city and radius searches.

Store hours would be nice too, but the service would also have to know when to say something like "Beach City Grill closes whenever the owner feels like closing, so you are advised to call before driving there."

For years, I have lived in fear of putting ice cream "back" into the fridge instead of the freezer. Guess what I did just two days after moving back to Mountain View?

To my surprise, it did not melt completely. It became soft, and a lot of the water went to the bottom of the container, but it was still passable as ice cream after I returned it to its proper home.

Thanks to repeated trips within California, I now have credit for two one-way tickets between any Southwest cities in the continental US. The credit expires in February 2008. Where should I go, and when?

I was thinking of visiting Portland (plus Eugene), Seattle, or Boston (plus New York), since I have friends in each of those cities.

If I start at SJC and fly to Boston or New York, in which city should I attempt to get a 2-hour layover? I don't think I'd enjoy a direct flight and I know my laptop wouldn't.

If I don't use the credit on an interesting trip, I can use it next time I visit my parents in Los Angeles. But what would be the fun in that?

Galactic Civilizations fan "The Wicked Flea" on game copy-protection:

Call me inane or foolhardy if you wish, but the harder you squeeze, the more slips through your fingers. You can prove this scientifically by attempting to squeeze jello and keeping it all in your hands at the same time.

One side-effect of including a spell checker in Firefox is that some users file bug reports when they disagree with the default dictionary:

• Spell check approves "donut", flags "doughnut"
• Racial epithets should not be included in spelling suggestions
  • Originally "Racial Epithets should not be included in the default dictionary"
• Obama not in spellchecker dictionary
  • Originally "Spellchecker has political bias"

It seems that some people are angry that a Kurdish-language version of Firefox exists. The mozilla.feedback newsgroup has been full of posts about Kurdish, many of them similar to this message.

Who knew that making it possible for volunteers to translate a web browser into multiple languages could be controversial?

When I hear the chorus of Undeniably You (Jeff Savage Mix), I cannot help but notice that you keep using that word:

It's unbelievable all the things that You do
It's unexplainable how Your love pulls me through
And I can't question the one thing I've found to be true
It's undeniably You

I do not think "unbelievable" means what you think it means.

Love,

An atheist fan