<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 21:22:22 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>jasonaut : foolish mortal</title><description/><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>423</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-6576763254206918889</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 20:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-09T16:05:19.123-04:00</atom:updated><title>Lightin em up</title><atom:summary type='text'>I say Hortense, I do quite enjoy the sport called "paintball." Huzzah.



Also, owie.

</atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/05/lightin-em-up.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-6473232249283403411</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-27T11:10:25.214-04:00</atom:updated><title>I love this</title><atom:summary type='text'></atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/04/i-love-this.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-5644867819900553795</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-18T15:46:00.282-04:00</atom:updated><title>oh Internets, is there anything you don't know?</title><atom:summary type='text'>&lt;!--t--&gt;Your result&lt;!--/t--&gt;: the Wit (80% dark, 34% spontaneous, 26% vulgar)      your humor style:CLEAN | COMPLEX | DARKYou like things edgy, subtle, and smart. I guess that means you're probably an intellectual, but don't take that to mean pretentious. You realize 'dumb' can be witty--after all isn't that the Simpsons' philosophy?--but  rudeness for its own sake, 'gross-out' humor and most </atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/04/oh-internets-is-there-anything-you-dont.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-7159657012897672404</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-28T15:59:15.157-04:00</atom:updated><title>The coolest thing I will see online today</title><atom:summary type='text'>Tron à la françaiseUploaded by freres-hueon</atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/03/coolest-thing-i-will-see-online-today.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-2271187307053254774</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-24T17:26:19.942-04:00</atom:updated><title>why telecommuting is hard.</title><atom:summary type='text'>I do work in an office, but far away from the rest of my department. Sometines, it is aggravatingly difficult to make a simple point over any of the various communication methods we have available. 

Such as today, when I'm trying to make the word "Étoile" in a template on our content management system ...

Me: The special characters are not working inside the page headers, which make the titles.</atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/03/why-telecommuting-is-hard.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-8691630025322246016</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-16T13:24:36.954-04:00</atom:updated><title>oh, the transhumanity</title><atom:summary type='text'>You Score as a Transhumanist-Biotech
Transhumanists believe that humanity can and should strive  to attain higher levels of physical, mental, and social achievement through the use of technology. They seek to extend human capabilities and improve the human condition through technology- supporting the quest for immortality, the  conquering of death and disease, the amplification of human </atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/03/oh-transhumanity.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-4478058625282275061</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 14:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-18T10:32:48.736-04:00</atom:updated><title>Coming soon to an ice planet near you</title><atom:summary type='text'></atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/03/coming-soon-to-ice-planet-near-you.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-1118973330313651572</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-17T15:01:31.286-04:00</atom:updated><title>do the test</title><atom:summary type='text'></atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/03/do-test.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-2682762767965031443</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-12T13:15:03.063-04:00</atom:updated><title>Most awesomest site of the day</title><atom:summary type='text'>WordtoYour.com



Yes, I have plenty of time to kill at work... so what?</atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/03/most-awesomest-site-of-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-6976132309722386100</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-07T13:41:32.477-05:00</atom:updated><title>I write like a girl, or, does this post make me look gay?</title><atom:summary type='text'>I just came across the Gender Guesser in a post at Reason. Being totally confident in my masculinity, I plugged in this post to see just how macho I and my words are. Turns out, not much. 

My scores on a sample of 544 words ...
  Female = 1220
  Male   = 776
  Difference = -444; 38.87%
  Verdict: FEMALE

Ouch. Or maybe that's my sensitive side. 

GRR! KICK ASS! LOOK AT MY MUSCLES! RAWR! I WILL </atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/03/i-write-like-girl-or-does-this-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-1911526471968300393</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-04T16:59:15.016-05:00</atom:updated><title>Super villain</title><atom:summary type='text'>Sounds about right... except I wish Magneto was second. Lex Luthor is an idiot, plus his action figure sucks. I don't even know anything about Venom or Apocalypse. To me, Venom is whatever happened after Spidey got the black suit off and figured out it was an alien. Apocalypse=Who knows. FF were as lame as the movies, but I always thought Doom was cool as hell.

You are Dr. Doom.Blessed with </atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/03/super-villain.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-4969579349042767313</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-28T12:02:28.382-05:00</atom:updated><title>Next season is ruined, stupid spoilers</title><atom:summary type='text'>I'll still try to enjoy it, but it just won't be the same.

Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early</atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/02/im-looking-forward-to-next-season.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-4582855713553470358</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-27T14:06:34.329-05:00</atom:updated><title>Decrepit monsters</title><atom:summary type='text'>Just down in the cafeteria, eating my sandwich, reading my book, a guy from Events came up and asked Do you work here?" (we don't all know each other). I answered yes. He said, "I knew it. You look like a professor."
This has been the story ever since I was 17. It must be the sweater, or sitting by myself reading books, or just the durn smartness of my aura. This must also be the reason why </atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/02/decrepit-monsters.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-8629120615008566796</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-27T13:11:50.323-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>eclipse</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>lunar</category><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>moon</category><title>lunar eclipse</title><atom:summary type='text'></atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/02/lunar-eclipse.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-2512616204186638367</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-20T13:46:47.948-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>moon eclipse</category><title>Total Eclipse of the Moon</title><atom:summary type='text'>Get outside tonight and look up!

Many thanks to NASA and also Bonnie Tyler.</atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/02/total-eclipse-of-moon.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-6821586476430295928</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:06:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-14T14:07:37.765-05:00</atom:updated><title>White people drive like this... black people drive like this...</title><atom:summary type='text'>Oh, I'm sorry, we are all wonderful. It's about the SAMEness, not the DIFFerence, jerk! Mos Def.</atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/02/white-people-drive-like-this-black.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-8537912914911279750</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-05T16:44:20.803-05:00</atom:updated><title>The choice was between a black dude and a white lady.</title><atom:summary type='text'>

I love America. I mean, doesn't that blow your mind just a little bit? Dem/Repub... whatever. There are two viable candidates for President of gender/race that we have NEVER had before. I kinda had made up my mind already, but when I'm standing there in front of the machine, looking at the names, being Southern and proud... it's just a little bit of a shock. Is this an indicator that sex/race </atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/02/choice-was-between-black-dude-and-white.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-6520202764482611877</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-05T16:36:32.887-05:00</atom:updated><title>Business proposal</title><atom:summary type='text'>Left under a rock at the bottom of our steps...



Several more found on the sidewalk just up the block. Also seen up and down the street.</atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/02/business-proposal.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-7898779968058937469</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-04T20:26:33.546-05:00</atom:updated><title>wooooooooo</title><atom:summary type='text'>I love how the universal "I gave blood" recovery snack is... Nutter Butters! I never eat these things, but they sure are good after losing a pint(?) of your life juice. 

As I was sitting there being bled, the lady kept asking me "are you ok? are you SURE you're ok? want me to get you some juice?" etc.  I must have looked scared. So now it's caprisun fruit punch, fig newtons and nutter butters, </atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/02/wooooooooo.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-8053029231045605398</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-30T15:33:12.140-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>anagram</category><title>Anagram addiction</title><atom:summary type='text'>Many years ago, I got mildly hooked on the Internet Anagram Server. It was weeks and months of fun. Eventually I was able to overcome my need to ask the computer to make new words out of other words.

And then recently someone challenged me to a game of Scrabulous. Since all my letters suck (Q, Z, O, O, O, O, E (and yes I managed to spell "ooze" on my own, thanks.)), I cheated. It didn't work </atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/01/anagram-addiction.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-3358789919846858747</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-26T18:33:01.751-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>scifi</category><title>I've never even heard of this guy</title><atom:summary type='text'>but apparently, he is the science fiction writer who I most something something...
I am:Samuel R. "Chip" DelanyFew have had such broad commercial success with aggressively experimental prose techniques.
Which science fiction writer are you?

I was so hoping to be Philip Dick or Stanislaw Lem. But no.

Ah, after consulting Wikipedia, I have in fact heard of this guy. I tried to read one of his </atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/01/ive-never-even-heard-of-this-guy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-1783765764315574600</guid><pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-25T19:14:10.296-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>devil</category><title>Sowing the Seed of Love</title><atom:summary type='text'>See, I think I'm being ironic, but I'm not. This is God's Will working through my Evil naughty sarcastic ways. 

And Jack Chick Rulez (second to Almighty You Know Who of course). 

Shout at the Devil.</atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/01/sowing-seed-of-love.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-7865528467089665549</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-24T14:48:47.328-05:00</atom:updated><title>These will come in handy someday</title><atom:summary type='text'>(NOT nine months from now, thanks for asking.)

Do's and Don'ts with baby

For example:

</atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/01/these-will-come-in-handy-somday.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-440678438229565342</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-17T10:27:49.855-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>snow</category><title>Hooray for snow!</title><atom:summary type='text'>

Sadly, no snow day today. Sigh.</atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/01/hooray-for-snow.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15582632.post-3632602417893906079</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-23T13:34:33.588-05:00</atom:updated><category domain='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#'>ankle</category><title>"Good" news</title><atom:summary type='text'>NOT A BREAK! Radiologist says there is 'evidence' of an old emulsion? abloggin? fulboated? ... something fracture. So apparently I have broken my ankle before. Maybe the last time I stepped off a sidewalk wrong, December 2005 (yes, this is the third time in just over 2 years that I've had the same injury. I told you I have weak ankles.).

OK, so now it just sucks. It doesn't suck like a break </atom:summary><link>http://www.jasonaut.com/2008/01/good-news.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (jasonaut)</author></item></channel></rss>