We’ve been watching Fox’s Bones since the first episode. The first two seasons were good. The third, which ended tonight, was a festering turd that stunk up my living room. Unfortunately, we were so invested that we refused to declare it deceased when we should have, about seven episodes ago. We, at one point, did …
Category Archives: Opinion
Spam Comments
Spam Comments: Blatant marketing ploy? We see that all the time. Anyone who has a blog is occasionally (or not so occasionally) plagued by spam comments. Most are easy to detect and they usually deal with products designed to make certain parts of you bigger, or the whole of you smaller. Sometimes things come through …
Storm Sirens
Last night was an interesting storm night around her. For whatever reason, I entirely missed all warnings of severe thunderstorms until I was kicked out of the YMCA pool due to lightning. Then the “tornado” sirens went off. Then all hell broke loose and I was confined to the coffee shop I was in because …
Professional Ethics Statements
Cross-posted from Talking Traffic. Please leave comments over there. Image by unk’s dump truck on flickr Ethics Statements There was a question posted on one of the Traffic Engineering listservs I’m a part of that sent me out to read (again) the various Canons of Ethics in the professional societies I’m associated with. I have …
Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
In keeping with my goals from the Hugo reading project I finished Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke yesterday. My review of the book is: A delight and I’ll never read it again. I won’t re-read it because it’s a freaking thousand page tome! It’s huge, and would probably have been better read …
Tradition!
It’s a tradition when you’ve done it twice, right? In this case, my new tradition is to count, stack, and wrap the coins that have accumulated in my presence. The last time I did this was when we had just moved to Lubbock and I was in the middle of six months of unemployment. Now …
Poe's Law
If you’ve never heard of it, there’s a “law” out there called Poe’s Law which states: Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is uttrerly [sic] impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won’t mistake for the genuine article. (link) Which brings us to today’s link. Props …
Happy Anniversary!
Today is the (x)th anniversary of the Destruction of the Ring and the Fall of Sauron. Be thankful of all the oddly-idyllic Hobbits and their allegory friends.
Bailout Bonuses
While I’m opinionating, I’ll just say that today’s Xkcd sums up my opinion on the Bailout Bonuses as succinctly as possible.
2009 Hugo Awards (Nominations)
The 2009 Hugo award nominations are up and available for viewing! Surprise of surprises, I’ve read three of the five best novel nominees. Best Novel (639 Ballots) * Anathem by Neal Stephenson (Morrow; Atlantic UK) * The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins; Bloomsbury UK) * Little Brother by Cory Doctorow (Tor Teen; HarperVoyager UK) …