At least from his place at the top of the blogosphere. Apparently, Alberto Gonzales is much more gab worthy right now.
Category Archives: Random
Quote of the Day
Found on David Louis Edelman’s blog: …if the Antichrist has an MP3 player, it’s a Zune. From a business perspective, how do you market to the Antichrist? Hmm…
Busy Weekend
This is more of a livejournal posting, but as I only use livejournal to keep up with what my friends are doing, voila! Saturday I spent all day working on the AT with the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club. It was supposed to be the “District Maintenance Month” wherein all the section overseers (I have section …
80/20 Rule
There’s a rule called the 80/20 rule. It states that 80% of the gain comes from 20% time/effort/clients/etc. This is frequently mentioned with respect to my work because about 20% of our clients pay 80% of our fee. The Transportationist poses the question that, perhaps, 0.8% of the effort gets you 51.2% of the gain. …
Escape Pod Podcast
I am a huge fan of Escape Pod, a Science Fiction podcast published by Steve Eley. Its intent is to deliver an audio version of a science fiction short story every week. It is one of my favorite podcasts, and I listen religiously. Give it a try, and if you like it well enough, donate …
Armageddon will Destroy the Internet
The Armageddon will destroy The Internet. At least, that’s my thought on the topic. This random thought came out of a random websearch using the terms “Bicycle” and “Armageddon”, the story behind which is really too involved to cover here. Anyhow, I came across this site, which asked, “Would the Internet survive Armageddon?” This question …
More Social Networking
I learned about Twitter last spring, when it was mentioned during Podcamp Atlanta (which was a rockin’ good time). Twitter is an social networking protocol that lets you post a 140 character update about what you’re doing right now. For example, I posted this morning that I was “Developing traffic volume growth projections for a …
Name Searching
I clicked through to Is This Your Name to find out what was going on with “Bill Ruhsam”. Amusingly, I found out that I don’t exist… 3. According to the US Census Bureau°, 0.112% of US residents have the first name ‘Bill’ and fewer than 0.001% have the surname ‘Ruhsam’. The US has around 300 …
The Call of Cthulhu
Finally! It’s only been about twenty years since I first ran across Cthulhu, in the form of the role playing game Call of Cthulhu, in which if your character is not dead or insane by game’s end, you haven’t been trying hard enough. Now I’ve finally read the original short story that this is all …
Scifi Summer Movie Project
Way back at the beginning of the summer I posted a list of scifi movies that I either needed to see, or see again. Let’s see how I’ve been doing. Gattaca: Nope Blade Runner**: Nope Digitally scragged Return of the Jedi (I was so fed up with Lucas after his “improvement” of episode IV and …