Erudition and Inanity

Bigelow Tea, a regular advertiser on Mr. Imus’s radio show, said it was suspending its current advertising and re-evaluating its future relationship with the show.

Apparently there exists some non-trivial subset of human beings who reside at the interstices of shock radio and soothing, understated beverages. Are they advertising herbal teas, I wonder, or caffeinated?

P&G, Others Pull Imus Ads (subscription required)

The job search: It’s hard to tell, but I think it went well. When a blog post rhymes, I eat limes. Friday is here, and I’m drinking a beer! Let’s end this.

California was quite nice in the daytime. I flew the redeye back this morning and I’ve been napping all day as a result. JetBlue may have a lot of forward leg room, but from side-to-side it’s torture. I did meet a couple of cool people, though. To my right, this guy. To my left, director of development here. I enjoy a little schmoozing now and then.

Blog news: Upgraded to Typo 4.1. Pain in the butt. Broke some CSS. Backend seems nicer. We’ll see.

Other: I did manage to get a little bit of work done. Expect a new release of Handshake soon with some small updates (documentation, checked_self, no blame system yet).

xkcd, the best webcomic in the world, reveals its insightful theory about cat proximity. We must be vigilant.

And yet all I can think about is what would happen if it scratched up the screen.

As seen on Lifehacker.

I was working with the TA for our Software Development class the other day and I noticed that he’d remapped his browser to display fixed-width fonts as Monaco instead of Courier New. It’s a good idea and I thought I’d repost it here in the service of others who were, like me, too dumb to come up with it on their own but still unsatisfied with their fixed-width font experience. The setting is in Firefox under Preferences -> Content -> Fonts & Colors -> Advanced.

Running Windows? This is similarly old news, but the new ClearType-enabled fonts that Microsoft released for Windows Vista work just fine in XP. I discovered this a couple of months ago when I installed Windows on my shiny new Mac via BootCamp and was suddenly acutely aware, in a way I never had been before, how ugly everything looked. Their new fixed-width font is called Consolas, and it’s lovely. You can grab them all here.

It’s not that Courier New is such a terrible font. Well actually, I guess it is.

I am reservedly pro-Scheree but unconditionally pro-kitty. Link