I’m at a small conference for technologies in renewable energy. It’s pretty standard fare for a convention center: drab, cool greys and warm beige tones, upholstery that is neither itchy nor comfortable, collapsable metal legs on tables and chairs. I’m here with a student contingent — all these faces that I recognize from high school […]
posted way after the fact: I knew something was horribly wrong because of all the rope. More specifically, it was the rapelling and the rope. The part that was supposed to be training came in dream-like flashes within the dream. (Meta-dreaming? I don’t know.) Tom Ridge featured all too prominently in those early flashing portions. […]
Updated the Modus Ponens URL… Added thewrongtim to the blogroll – – what an oversight that omission was!
Via Smart Mobs – there’s a petition going around to get Google to stop posting ads for essay writing services. The ethics of this are a touch complicated, no? On the one hand you have the argument that this undermines education. Sure, OK. I’ll buy that. But where’s the free market? Is this the same […]
Via Sampo… Put your iPod on random and ask each question before advancing to the next one. What do you think of me, iPod? Front Line Assembly “Infra-Red Combat” Will I have a happy life? Slickmick “Lecture” What do my friends really think of me? Boards of Canada “1969” Do people secretly lust after me? […]
There was an infinite row of sexless clones at spare computer terminals all entering commands into a mysql prompt. Except that it was always secure text entry, all the time. The screens looked like: **************** They all had shaved heads except me. I had my hair. This one guy leaned over to tell me that […]
DAMN YOU JOHN! First name? Rob Were you named after anyone? Dad Do you wish on stars? I wished on Peter Sellers once but all I got was a swift kick in the groin. When did you last cry? When I wished on Peter Sellers. Do you like your handwriting? My non-disclosure doesn’t allow me […]
Interesting(?) piece from creativebits presenting the “Desk” concept as a replacement for/amalgamation of the Finder & Desktop concepts. The problems I had with it are that it’s not readily apparent “out-of-the-box” what it is or what it’s for. First I just eyed the graphic like “WTF is this?” Then I watched the video. And I […]
Via dystopianethic: When you look at yourself in the mirror, what’s the first thing you look at? My chipped tooth. How much cash do you have on you? I just got back from Gibson’s Chiba where cash is already illegal. What’s a word that rhymes with “TEST”? [EXPLETIVE DELETED] Favorite plant? In- or outdoor? Who […]
Friends and relatives may have heard me refer from time to time to the “Death Star Trench Run” part of my commute. While running some errands in Williston today, I decided to take along my camera to snap some pictures of said stretch of road for documentation purposes. Observe: There’s also a slideshow on my […]