Posts from June 2012
My tolerance for stupidity, ignorance, and imbeciles is jaw-droppingly lower before about ten o’clock in the morning, which means dealing with my mother’s health care on the East coast from the West coast has been just awful.
By about noon every day for the last six months or so I’ve been feeling really, really stabby. Pity my wife and co-workers.
Elmo is the only non-human or puppet ever to testify before the U.S. Congress. At the request and with the assistance of Rep. Duke Cunningham, he testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education in April 2002, urging support for increased funding in music education.
If you need to strip all non-numeric characters from a string (except for the period character) using JavaScript, try:
string.replace(/[^\d.]/g, "");
Jason Kottke recently posted an interesting tidbit about Ernest Hemingway’s standing desk.