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(It turns out that only one of these figures is in error; the actual figure is 8.5%, and the Irish Health story is pointing out that the resulting rates will be one fifth higher than competing health insurers)
(It turns out that only one of these figures is in error; the actual figure is 8.5%, and the Irish Health story is pointing out that the resulting rates will be one fifth higher than competing health insurers)
While Global Frequency on VCD makes for some fine watching, it's not a particularly good boot disk.
This weekend saw the Monaco Grand Prix, the high point - stylistically speaking - of the Formula 1 season. George Lucas and some of his recent directees were present, and two of the cars - from Red Bull Racing, nee Jaguar, nee Stewart - were reliveried as Star Wars cars complete with laser burns, etc. on the, er, hulls.
Neither car finished the race. More embarassingly, what is normally a high-attrition race (due to the very tight nature of the course, which tends not to forgive mistakes) had an high proportion of finishers (14 of 18 starters) this year.
Neither car finished the race. More embarassingly, what is normally a high-attrition race (due to the very tight nature of the course, which tends not to forgive mistakes) had an high proportion of finishers (14 of 18 starters) this year.
ow ow ow bright light
Jan. 16th, 2003 09:28 amSo I was working on some config stuff late at night, and did one of those "sawing off the branch you're sitting on" moves. As a result, I had to get up at godawful o'clock to intercept the staff in the office where I'd sawed off the branch, and get 'em to glue it back on again. And now I'm exhausted, and still have to go to work.
d'you take sugar in that?
Jan. 13th, 2003 11:56 amI just read possibly the funniest non-technical thing I've seen amidst jwz's writings, and it brought to mind the following conversation:
Ralph: how d'you take your coffee?
Waider: Black, no sugar. Student coffee.
Ralph: same way as JC's keyboard, then!
Waider: *much laughter*
See, I used share a room with JC in college, and JC had an Olivetti 286 that Ralph and I used occasionlly borrow for hacking on. Ar, we were poor, but we were HAPPY, etc. Anyway, we also had a toastie maker and a kettle in the room, because the last thing you want to do when you're hacking is go downstairs and do the whole food-and-drink routine. Oh, and no pissant 100g jars for us; we'd buy the 500g jars, being the nearest thing to industrial drums we could get while still getting coffee you'd actually want to drink. And one day, in an incident involving tricksy fingers, a good 250g of instant coffee powder found its way into the keyboard on the Olivetti.
Of course, we poured most of it back in the jar, but forever after the keyboard was a bit squidgy and smelled WONDERFUL.
Ralph: how d'you take your coffee?
Waider: Black, no sugar. Student coffee.
Ralph: same way as JC's keyboard, then!
Waider: *much laughter*
See, I used share a room with JC in college, and JC had an Olivetti 286 that Ralph and I used occasionlly borrow for hacking on. Ar, we were poor, but we were HAPPY, etc. Anyway, we also had a toastie maker and a kettle in the room, because the last thing you want to do when you're hacking is go downstairs and do the whole food-and-drink routine. Oh, and no pissant 100g jars for us; we'd buy the 500g jars, being the nearest thing to industrial drums we could get while still getting coffee you'd actually want to drink. And one day, in an incident involving tricksy fingers, a good 250g of instant coffee powder found its way into the keyboard on the Olivetti.
Of course, we poured most of it back in the jar, but forever after the keyboard was a bit squidgy and smelled WONDERFUL.
Geek Pride before a Technological Glitch
Mar. 30th, 2002 06:11 pmHaving successfully gotten around the fact that the phone salesman had neglected to include my new PIN in the random assortment of doco I acquired at the phone shop, my new phone resolutely refused to switch itself on.
