At my new job I get respect and a phone extension and my office is a cave full of computers. Children don’t scream near me and grownups don’t scream at me and I don’t have to pretend to care about Mobile Facebook.
There will be a new Sloan album in June. Here’s hoping it’s even pinker and more filler-packed and more non-playable-in-some-car-stereos than the last!
I moved the beta-blog to the main domain, but perpetual beta is in vogue so it remains “salacious springbok” and I’m still tinkering. The old one is dead but the posts and comments imported flawlessly. If you read by feed please update your feedreader accordingly: main RSS feed and comments RSS feed.
Rock solid.
When the head of Asus’s marketing department tore this out of her little sister’s doodling notebook and plunked it down in front of the International VP, I’m guessing no one thought to proofread it, or, say, run it by someone who speaks English. Am I alone in finding this logo vaguely creepy and sinister?
When I [...]
Watched Revenge of the Sith with The Sherry last night. She had never seen a Star Wars movie before. But she had heard about them.
“Wait, Luke and Leia are brother and sister!?”
She brought an interesting and unique perspective to the table.
Techdirt has the tale of a satellite launch gone awry. The satellite in question could still be nudged into its intended orbit, but Boeing has a patent on the process of doing a lunar flyby and returning to earth orbit, and it refuses to license the patent to SES, who launched the satellite.
In other patenting-elementary-math-and-physics [...]
I’ve been trying really hard to enjoy Radiohead lately.
I’d never really made that effort before. I have Kid A on vinyl cause I found it at Orange Monkey in Waterloo once, and I can appreciate it on a certain level. A certain, I-will-listen-to-this-on-average-once-every-two-years-while-drunk-or-lonely level. The rest of the Radiohead oeuvre, which I left largely unexplored [...]
So Microsoft and other companies sell these “wireless desktops” which generally include a keyboard and a mouse that both connect wirelessly to a transmitter that connects to the computer’s USB port. Useful stuff, that. Wires are tangly.
But then they connect the transmitter to the USB plug with an ugly three-foot-long wire! So you’ve eliminated no [...]
Firstshowing.net has a teaser trailer for Blindness, the upcoming film adaptation of Jose Saramago’s excellent novel about an epidemic of “white blindness” and the plight of the one woman (played in the film by Julianne Moore) who can still see.
I’m looking forward to this. I like stories about society collapsing in novel ways.
Update: Don McKellar [...]
I’m trying out WordPress. Again. The results may be viewed at cool dry place: unstable branch.