Found on Digg: Son comes out to his fundie mom, she doesn’t accept it well, he kills himself. This is part of why I think it’s important to be publicly atheist, and not apologetic about it. This is where religion takes you: it takes you to a place where you have to choose between your [...]
Throughout his business career, George W Bush presided over disaster after disaster. Arbusto, Spectrum 7, Harken, he was the anti-Midas: every one was a failure, and he kept afloat only through the intervention of his father’s rich friends, who bailed him out time and again. Maybe he was an empty suit for each venture, a [...]
Heading off to bed at 1am when you hear a little piercing CHIIIRP! One of the eleven smoke alarms in the house has a battery going dead. They’re all getting house power, and know about each other. Your job: find the stupid smoke alarm without waking your whole family, all of whom are asleep under [...]
I finally installed Boot Camp on my Macbook Pro. My friend Jay was accusing me of treason, insanity, and general heresy. But here’s the thing, I want to play my game on my laptop, not at my desk. There was the simple matter of dropping a 200gb drive in the MBP, and installing the latest [...]
Yeah, hey, Windows, screw you. Yeah, I’m talking to you, XP. It just drives me nuts that Windows has never once willing let me disconnect an external Firewire or USB hard drive. It always tells me that the drive “cannot be stopped right now”. Well, I’ll tell you what, I’m no idiot, and I can [...]
Interesting article here on the net neutrality debate. If guys like Bob Kahn and Dave Farber are against net neutrality legislation, I think my being for it is probably pretty ignorant. Much as I love this video, perhaps it’s right that companies create individualized network services in this way. Anyway, I’m not saying I’m for [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nice6NYb_WA&eurl A 3d face morphing tech demo. It’s pretty stellar, able to very accurately regenerate a very acceptable 3D head from a single photograph. I’ve assessed a program called FaceGen – which has a free demo version for anyone running Windows who wants to give it a whirl – and it’s pretty powerful, but this [...]
Mona writes notes all the time, letting us know things. This is the note on her doll’s basket: Maranda Mona’s child in the crib out of sticks with a cloth over it. Make shure no’one eat’s her she’s a girl not food.
I got a bug to change the colors of the site, and clean some cruft out of my crappy style.css file. So I did. Not sure what I think. I try to go for subtle, and prefer dark, but dark can be hard to read. Bright and legible is often not so subtle. So I’m [...]
Tonight was my first-ever martial arts class. I’m so out of shape, and I’m going to be sore tomorrow, I think. It wore me out just doing the calisthenics. Mona is getting tested for her orange belt in a couple of weeks, and she wants me to take karate as well. I have to admit [...]
