Usually any Harry Potter news from around here concentrates on bible-lady in Gwinnett county who wants to ban the books because they teach witchcraft. Today, we’ve go a different happening. A toddler was stuck for 30 minutes with a traffic cone on his head after he put it on to emulate the boy wizard. A …
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Comcast Denying Bittorrent Traffic
AP has (apparently) confirmed that Comcast is blocking Bittorrent regularly. A back-of-my-envelope thought on this matter is that they are saving bandwidth to sell to other people, so it’s part of their business model to manage the network traffic through their backbones. Seems that this will have continuing impacts on their customers and the ongoing …
Running Milestone
Exceptionally personal post. Do not pass go. Especially if you don’t want to hear me crowing about myself. Yay me! Jenn and I are running in the Tulsa Marathon before Turkey Day. We’re only running the half marathon, but the last time I was training up to long distances, I hit the 10 mile mark …
Gay Dumbledore
Jenn alerted me to the news fracas caused by J.K. Rowling saying that Dumbledore was gay (is gay? Do the portrait people have love-lives?). Apparently, there’s always been suspicion amongst fans that he was gay, due to his lack of a love interest and other items. Personally, I never pulled up a hint of gayness …
Vicious Mean Evil MS Excel 2007 Bug
Ah, the perils of floating poing calculation. Apparently there is a bug in Excel 2007 which causes 12 floating point values around 65535 and 65536 to be displayed incorrectly. Calculations aren’t effected, but the displayed number comes out as 100,000 or 100,001. I’m guessing this wasn’t an easter egg, or it would be funnier.
James Watson: Victim of Politics
Yesterday, I alluded to racist statements made by James Watson, regarding the inability of africans to measure up to other persons in the intelligence arena. Today, I see that he has been suspended from “the administrative responsibilities” of his posting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, due to the board’s “disagreeing with the comments…” This is …
Favorite Photo of Last Month
I took this in Concord, MA, while we were up New England way for a Wedding. It’s a bit overexposed, but I didn’t have time to mess with it in Photoshop.
Richard III
Jenn and I saw Shakespeare’s Richard III last night, put on by Georgia Shakespeare at Oglethorpe University. I hadn’t been exposed to Richard III since grade school, thus it was like seeing a brand new play. The only thing I remembered was “A horse! A horse! My Kingdom for a horse!” The play was remarkably …
Weird Dreams
Someone who is into dream interpretation will have to help me. Recently (last couple or so years) I’ve been having a recurring dream. It is similar to the “I forgot my pants” dream, but it revolves around high school/college. I dream that it’s late in the semester and I have been skipping so many classes …
Holy Racism, Batman!
Through a fluke set of circumstances, I ended up beginning to read the story, “Tom Swift and his Electric Rifle.” You may recognize this as the derivation of the acronym TASER (Thomas A. Smith Electric Rifle). Not knowing much about the story, who wrote it, or when it was published, I dove in. As I …