posted by Gene on Jul 21
Maybe I’m behind but I just learned something awesome about the Chrome awesome bar. This was something that I had looked into once or twice before, briefly, and failed to find an answer to. I always thought there should be a way to search Google images directly from the bar, instead of going to images.google.com first, and then searching.
This time when I searched around I found this which explained that you can right click on the awesome bar and select Edit search engines. There you can input alternative search engines, including images.google.com or any website and associate a keyword with that engine. So now if I want to search Google images I can just type image [search term]. Google even auto populates this list with frequently visited sites, so the engines you are likely to want to use might already be there. I just didn’t know to look. It’s very handy, so I thought I’d make sure you all knew.
posted by Gene on Jul 3
Just now I noticed a friend of mine from middle school has posted on facebook that she’s engaged and pregnant. I’m sure the two are pretty unrelated. This friend of mine, and I, have 9 mutual friends on facebook. So, including her, that’s 10 people, all about 25, all from my middle school/early high school years. 1 is gay. 2 don’t have any children, that I know of. The other 7 have either adopted, had kids, or are pregnant. 70% is higher than is generally represented amongst my friends, probably, but I found it noteworthy. It seems like that ratio can’t change much in the near future.
posted by Gene on Jun 3
Wolfram Alpha has informed me that Scarlett Johansson was born on the same day as me. See… very useful.
posted by Gene on Mar 18
The little bar code containing cards that one gets from grocery stores, that gives one deals and allows them to track ones purchases, also provide addresses for ones keys to be sent to, if found, postage guaranteed, presumably so they can return the keys to you, valued customer.
Kinda neat. I didn’t know that.
posted by Gene on Jan 30
25% of false convictions were for cases where an innocent confessed.
posted by Gene on Jan 29
It was brought to my attention today by news of recent events that the voice of Bart Simpson, Nancy Cartwright, is a Scientologist. As a result I will boycott the Simpsons, and watch it no more. I have watched every episode of the nearly complete 20 seasons, and the movie, so far, so this will be the most difficult boycott I’ve made against celebrity stupidity yet. Still, I have my principles.
posted by Gene on Jan 26
Factoid: Every movie nominated for an Oscar in 1996 featured a Zippo lighter.
Also, eggnog chocolate is not disgusting.
posted by Gene on Jan 17
Personal: I’ve implemented a new comment system. It should be all fancy and stuff. I primarily did it so you guys could comment using your facebook as a login as opposed to registering for something new. Hope ya’ll enjoy it.
Science: This is cool. Just so you know, generally advances don’t come in 8 orders of magnitude steps.
Politics: Obama has a digg type system for making policy recommendations. People can submit proposals, and vote on them, the most highly rated ones will be given in some big book to the President for consideration. Who knows what that means but I voted up this proposal because it’s a good pro science anti nonsense proposal. You should vote it up, too.
Charity: Freerice is onto my little game and has reduced the rice reward for answering questions with fewer options. So, now I’m down to my old rate of donation again. 
Entertainment: I listened to all the Stephen Fry podgrams. He’s got quite the vocal and rhetorical skill. I think he pretty much played himself in V for Vendetta.
Fitness: I have been on push-up hiatus due to a mysterious abdominal injury. It seems to have healed now, though. So today I did push-ups on my new swivel devices. They make things significantly more difficult. They, combined with degradation from my inactivity, take my count down to 40. So that’s where I’m starting. I plan to attempt to climb back up to 100 in 2 months. We’ll see how feasible that pace is with these contraptions.
Conclusion: I’ve stayed up to see the sunrise. It’s really not my fault. The internet was so slow as to necessitate it. If any of you Central people read this it’s ok to bang on my door around 1:30 if you want. Extra sleep won’t kill me, I guess.
posted by Gene on Nov 18
I think this excerpt speaks for itself.