To anyone who reads my blog and also has come to expect me to follow them on twitter: [bzzzzt!] Twitter is dead to me. The only way I can access it during the day is via IM, and the only way I’m willing to do that is via Google Talk. As twitter is not porting …
Category Archives: Opinion
Excellent Birthday
I can state with near certainty that this was one of the best Birthday’s of my whole life. Saturday was just about perfect, from waking up with out anything needing to happen, to drinking a pot of coffee, to playing Guitar Hero III (present # 1) to the party in the evening. ‘Twas awesome. I …
Eureka
Jenn turned me on to the SciFi channel show, Eureka. It’s smart, funny, clever [add your own adjective here] and fun to watch. At least it was. This is the third season. We watched episode 2 last night and I have to say, “meh”. By all means, rent/borrow/buy seasons 1 and 2. They were excellent. …
Really Cool Book: Great Scientific Experiments
I’ve been reading a library book titled Great Scientific Experiments by Rom Harré. It contains discussion about the scientific method and how experiments contribute to it. It has 20 experiments that “changed out view of the world”. It’s very interesting reading. A lot of each experiment’s discussion talks about the history and preconceptions that led …
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The Death of Childhood = "Mama Mia"
Jenn and I went to see Mama Mia with some friends last weekend. The verdict: ack. And that’s “ack ack ACK ACK” of the Mars-Attacks variety; watch this movie and your mind will melt. It’s not bad so much as deeply annoying in some parts. I’m going to come at this sort of backwards: If …
Writing
Write write write. Writing about writing? I write in order to become better at writing? Ascribo ergo sum? I’ve spent a great deal of time in the last few years writing. Usually it’s miniscule blog postings or rambling opinion pieces. I’ve been writing approximately 1,500 word essays on traffic engineering (see Talking Traffic) at two-week …
The Ultimate CSS Reference?
Slashdot brings us a review of the bood The Ultimate CSS Reference. Read about it there. My question: Can any dead-tree guide to Cascading Style Sheets, ultimately web-based things be considered The Ultimate? My Answer: No. I might call it ultimate even if it were subscription based, but if I have to flip through a …
What the Hell do I know?
The Mortgage Crisis™ and the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Bailout™ and their confluential conflagration are a great example of policy being set by politics, ideology and the media. Why? Because not 1% (and I bet less) of the people who are involved have a single clue about the pros and cons of a government bailout. All …
Whiny Brats
Now hear this! Everyone who was a died-in-the-wool, rabid, gung-ho, balls-to-the-wall Hillary Clinton Supporter! If you do not vote for Barack Obama in November, you are directed to turn in your brain because you will no longer be needing it. I keep hearing news stories of Clinton supporters who are vowing to stay home or …
"Geopolitical"
“The Chairstone recognizes the distinguished Schist from E-stone-ia” I was listening to NPR on the way to work this morning and realized that I had no idea what the term “geopolitical” really meant. You hear it all the time in discussions of world events and foreign policy. After checking the definition (“The study of the …