February 2010
2 posts
“Matilda – Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death” →
I heard this poem on the Writer’s Almanac and it tickled me.
“Crabbiness is a hedge against outright rage.”
– Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion.
January 2010
2 posts
Stephen Wright @ the Warner Theater
Wife bought me tix as an Xmas present, show was this past Saturday. Still funny as hell. Good mix of old and new stuff. Line that made me laugh hardest: I joined the Jehovah Witness protection program.
The Known Universe in 6 minutes and change. →
November 2009
1 post
June 2009
1 post
May 2009
1 post
April 2009
1 post
I skipped the suffering...
From a recent comment in some of my code:
FEAR: ANGER: HATE: THEDARKSIDE:
Yes, I was commenting a HACK: I like Visual Studio tags - pity I never go back and clear them….
November 2008
1 post
October 2008
1 post
Azure Screen Of Death
I’m at Microsoft’s PDC 08 in LA, where they introduced Windows Azure - their “cloud computing” platform. I’m sure someone’s already beaten me to it, but I wanted to try to go on record as being the first to use the phrase “Azure Screen of Death” - just a few minutes after they announced it, I leaned over and whispered to my cow orker “I wonder...
September 2008
1 post
July 2008
1 post
That's no melon... →
June 2008
1 post
May 2008
1 post
April 2008
2 posts
March 2008
4 posts
EDSAL? →
A .net wrapper for the Canon EOS SDK (aka, the EDSDK) - which is a bit procedural and C-ish for my OO sensibilities and tastes. I hope to use it in some camera control software I’m writing for my 40D to help in my astrophotography obsession hobby. There are several programs out there, but I haven’t found one that’s just the right shade of blue.
World Wide Telescope →
TED presentation about Microsoft’s World Wide Telescope. I highly recommend downloading the hi-def version.
December 2007
1 post
November 2007
2 posts
How Pervez Musharraf Rocks My World
Step 1) Musharraf fires Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry Step 2) Pakistani lawyers protest in the streets Step 3) My brain makes bizarro leap Step 4) Jackson Browne’s Lawyers in Love is now stuck in my head. It’s chock full of great lines - like “The Russians escaped while we weren’t watching them - like Russians will.”
Battle Without Honor or Humanity →
October 2007
3 posts
Song for the day...
Funeral music (march) or Trauermarsch, wenn du es vorziehst, from Die Götterdämmerung, by Richard Wagner. If you’ve ever seen Excalibur, you’ve heard it (the opening credits). Very powerful. See/hear it performed at about 3:15 in this video.
Personnel File Addendum Addendum →
Still Alive - the Portal credits video. I finished Portal last night - it’s a greate game. I would love to have the portal gun included as a weapon in HL2 deathmatch - would make for some seriously interesting battles. I included it as a link and not an embedded video so as not to be a spoiler.
September 2007
5 posts
Silos for sale (missile, not grain) →
I struggled to make that title fit the “farm” theme.
Give 1 Get 1 Laptop →
Buy a one laptop per child laptop for your self, send one to the third world.
Songs for the day...
Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age and Venus, the Bringer of Peace, from The Planets, by Gustav Holst. I saw both of these planets through my new toy (see below) this morning. Wow. The rings of Saturn are amazing. You look up, you see a dot. You look through the tube, and you see rings. As I used to say as a child, “It’s Matsik.”
Currently reading...
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore. Can’t help but think of Mort, by Terry Pratchett. Just finished The Stupidest Angel, also by Moore.
“All modern men are descended from a worm-like creature, but it shows more on...”
– Will Cuppy
August 2007
6 posts
“12:45… restate my assumptions.”
– Sean Gullette, as Max Cohen, in Pi
Google Universe →
A new service called Sky (available within Google Earth) allows users to view the heavens as seen from Earth. Sky allows users to view increasingly detailed imagery of some 100 million stars and 200 million galaxies. Unlike Stellarium, (which I love) these are actual images, not a graphical representation.
Currently Reading...
The Constant Gardener by John le Carre.
Reduce, reuse, recycle... →
Bicycle inner tube rubber bands. I’m itching to have a flat.
July 2007
11 posts
“I do have a test today. that wasn’t bullshit. It’s on European...”
– Matthew Broderick, as Ferris Bueller, in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Mischief managed (just finished reading)...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Laws, laws, laws →
Clarke’s 1st and 3rd are my favorites.
Mmmmm, giant fertility symbols.... →
Pagans have a cow over Homer
What song was #1 one the day you were born? →
Mine was Cherish by the Association
Bush's the One: Look who just tied Richard Nixon... →
"Most withering Venn diagram" →
Currently reading...
The $64 Tomato by William Alexander
WatchThe impossible knot.
June 2007
7 posts
Science during Summer vacation →
A friend’s kids inadvertently learn science - my kids and I love MythBusters, too.
“The storm walked around the hills on legs of lightning, shouting and grumbling.”
– Terry Pratchett, in Equal Rites (a Discworld novel)