Jacob Sullum: Reefer gladness / Drug users in the next office and atop the corporate ladder
Lewis, the man who accomplished all this, remains Progressive’s chairman and owns more than a tenth of the company’s shares, making him a billionaire. Observers call him a perfectionist, “an extraordinary businessman,” and “an absolutist about untiring effort.” They also call him “a functioning pothead.”
Got a spam today that ends with 62 nonsense words (of which the longest is 33 letters), each beginning “jjuyjcly”. I wonder what sort of program generated them.
Wow, I’m amazed this joke isn’t already Out There. Overheard today: “You know Rick here” — the friendly fiftyish fellow who co-manages the mail-drop that I use — “was an X-rated star? It was a movie with an all-Philippine cast, called Pinoy’s Complaint.”
Whenever possible, one’s thesis should be write-only. Nevertheless, I understand if once in a while a visitor to this page may choose to read what I’ve written.
Laurence Simon of Amish Tech Support, weary from the media attention brought on by his exposure of a scandal in Washington, returned briefly to his old form yesterday. Heh heh.
(2004 Oct 19: Those links have gone bad, but I have not given up tracking them down at another site.)
Hey, when will the folks behind Movable Type fix that bug that appends a useless #000000 to every permalink? (Or is that fix part of the paid version?) Luckily for you, your humble correspondent here goes that extra yard to strip out unnecessary fields from any links, probably saving you several Planck units of download time whenever you visit here. It’s just one way of saying thanks for helping to make me the world’s 8th 44th 42d 53d most famous “Sherwood”.
Here at Ogre Labs we care about every stray byte. Why, I remember the time – what? Oh.
2006: I’m now 34th.
Heard on the radio: June 19 is World Sauntering Day.
