Brandon Aaron just blogged about a useful enchancement to jQuery's .index() method that will be added to jQuery 1.3.3, which Paul Irish and I came up with a few months ago.  I wonder who wrote those meaty code samples...mmm....

So I got this lame pickup line from a coho coho, so I decided to blow up their spot a bit more.

Apparently, he was not. 

I think this whole thing has kind of crested, but apparently this guy and his personal wiki do not quite get the joke.

In considering today's failed undetermined successful satellite lauch by North Korea, it's important to consider how biased we in the West are.  We are eager to dismiss the country's pictureseque beaches despite the fact that they clearly welcome tourism. Why should we doubt the rocket scientists of the nation with the most advanced tunneling capabilities on earth?  A functional space program would only be the next logical step in the advanced network of secret roads underground tunnels and chalets(!) designed to ensure the Great Leader's security.

This network will, of course, fail to save Kim Jong-il from the eventual heart attack, stroke, or simple not waking up in the morning awaiting him, for he shares the same fate as all of us: Entombment in a sarcophagus at a monumental riverside palace.

Meanwhile, it appears that whether today's launch was a presidential rocket or a missile test, North Korea will dodge any serious international consequences, as the consensus seems to be that punishment for the action would threaten whatever diplomatic relations are currently in progress. 

I was skimming a cringe-inducing LA Times article about how driving a truck is a really convenient job if you like killing people when this sentence misled me into thinking an intelligence analyst investigating the case had herself fallen victim to a gruesome crime.

"Later that year, Turner's suspected killer was identified as John Robert Williams, a 28-year-old trucker."

Granted, I did jump one crucial paragraph, but the quote stood alone, the strange twist in the case piquing my attention.  It turns out that your "suspected killer" is the murderer you are looking for, not the person who killed you.

On a related note, leftover salad is not the same thing as dinner.

There's a slight delay right after Fritz Henderson says, "1.3 million dollars," at which point I thought to myself, "David Gregory is letting this guy off the hook."  But it's really a great moment in the history of pauses.

the urge to upgrade this site from "unmaintained embarrassment and file repository" to something slightly more becoming has grown irresistible, and thus, the ajpiano.com is reborn.