Spent the last couple of days looking at new games, new tech, and wandering around PAX East, the Penny Arcade expo here in Boston. It’s a good show: they made a mistake picking the Hynes for this first trip east, as it’s too cramped, but otherwise it has been fun. The big game is Red [...]
So I’ve been having a bit of a Twitter debate over the past few weeks with someone named @CajunDave. It started during the healthcare summit, I think, when I posted that single-payer systems work just fine, and I have personal experience with them. I haven’t changed his mind, but the back and forth has been [...]
Never have I watched so much C-SPAN before. Hours and hours of painful repetition of banal talking points, and it was fairly riveting. Folks who want a good summary of what’s going to happen with this reform, and when, can find one here. Folks who want delusional ranting about how this is the death of [...]
Heartattack at 59. Which sounds like one of my favorite Tom Waits albums, but this is no time for quirky observations.
After years of bitching from folks, the iPhone finally got copy and paste. Life was good. And now Microsoft says Windows Phone 7 won’t have it, because people don’t use it that often. Incredible.
I have had a lot of issues with iTunes just randomly losing track of songs: they’re in the library, the file exists and is in the right place, but iTunes has forgotten this fact. Out of many thousand songs, I only learn of this when a sync throws an error. The sync says it can’t [...]
(via reddit) Sums it up. The BBC, a news outlet. American cable news, a wankfest of commercial crap.
My aunt alerted me to the upcoming Pi Day, 3/14/15. You have some time to prepare to celebrate, at 9:26:53, when that day rolls around. Cool. I love dates like that. I like that Mona was born on one of the last odd dates we’ll see for a loooong time, 9/11/1999.
