Irrsinn.net: taking joy in human unreason

First and last credit card

My first credit card -- a Chase Rewards card that I got back in 2005 to help with Thorn expenses -- is now my last and final. It had a $300 credit limit when I got it, and had a $2700 limit earlier this evening. I paid the ...

Deliberate starvation

I find that I have a lot of trouble mustering the courage to write about weight loss here. I mean, to really write about it, to give numbers and talk about specific failures and how I felt and how much weight loss sucks. My one goal for 2008 (from March ...

One credit card down!

With the payday last Friday, I sent in the final $500 to one of my high-interest credit cards. One more credit card left, then I'm down to student loans and money I owe my parents. Such a nice feeling... I haven't decided whether I'll cancel the credit card yet. There ...

Little Engine That Can

I was partway through a post about struggling to find continuing motivation when I decided to reread Zen Habits' "Get Off Your Butt: 16 Ways to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump. Unsurprisingly, it got me out of my slump. The winner for now, I think, was ...

Shameless plug: MS Walk

March 29, 2008. 07:30. Symphony Park. Charlotte, NC. I'll be walking in the MS (Multiple Sclerosis) Walk with Dulin, Shelly, and several others. The walk is either a 2.5 mile or 5 mile walk, depending on how I feel that morning (and, likely, what others are doing). I'm ...

Awesome trumpets: no longer an oxymoron

Curt Ramm played with They Might Be Giants in Wednesday and last Friday's shows, and I'll admit, he's given me more than a little crush on the trumpet. I'm sure Greg will be jealous. I can't find much in terms of videos of him except for Bruce Springsteen ...

Quasi-daily linkage

10 Usability Crimes You Really Shouldn’t Commit - Nice and easy list to follow. I fixed a silly problem on my site this morning courtesy of the reminder. Clients From Hell : The client calls around 9 PM on a Saturday... - “[very angry] I am reading your email in ...

I’ll be damned – more WP trouble

I was fixing a webcomic issue on Greg's blog, and I'll be damned if from one minute to the next, it didn't suffer from an index.php injection, too. This is weird as hell. A bunch of spurious content appeared on his homepage, although clicking through to those posts ...