Daily Archives: July 30, 2009
Personal Work Minutiae, 7/30/09
Posted on July 30, 2009 46 Comments
Answers to various questions I’ve received relating to my own personal projects over the last several days: 1. Regarding That Project I Can’t Tell You About Yet: Sorry, still can’t tell you about it yet. Not trying to be a dick, I’m just not in a position to go into any detail about it at […]
Don’t Panic: This is How it Works
Posted on July 30, 2009 46 Comments
I find it really hard to get terribly emotionally invested in the ups and downs of the health care reform legislation in Washington, not because I think we don’t need reform, but primarily because I find the play-by-play, who’s-up-who’s-down BS silly and perhaps a bit ahistorical as regards how legislation is done. I mean, really: […]
A Little Bit of Fiddlery
Posted on July 30, 2009 8 Comments
Those of you obsessed with the sidebars here might have noticed me fiddling a bit with them today, and here’s what I’ve done: I’ve removed the “Recent Posts” section and replaced it with a “Last 100 Posts” section, which now resides below the “Blatheration of Others” section. I did this because I think it makes […]
Today’s Unbearably Deep Thought
Posted on July 30, 2009 28 Comments
Sleeping in is its own reward. Discuss.
I’m Not Evil, I’m Just Programmed That Way
Posted on July 30, 2009
The AMC column this week looks at famous evil computers in science fiction and asks: Are they genuinely evil? Or just misunderstood? And then asks you to post your own favorite example of an evil computer. That’s right, I crave your input. As I so often do.
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying