I don’t recall when, exactly, I became aware that Wil Wheaton had an active blog presence. It would have been a few years ago, probably mentioned in passing in comments or a link-in somewhere else, pointing to a post he’d done. Likely it was on a nerdy subject of some sort, since I often consume nerdy blogs, and odds are good […]
Archive for February, 2009
Apple improved its DRM-free purchase policy! Woot!
A while back Apple went DRM free with iTunes, a move heralded far and wide by sundry and all. On the plus side, losing encryption while improving audio playback is a clear value-added bonus for we longtime users. I can actually put the music I purchased onto non-iPod devices now, such as my smartphone. This has empleasened me. On the […]
Samsung might be a little tone-deaf
For the NV100, Samsung is trying to illustrate how crisp its captures are by a possibly clever, and certainly noticeable, campaign. They’ve got images showing people captured in a split second, so fast that their bodies appear to be bisected: The imagery is effective and startling, and certainly arrests your attention. But in the series of ads, […]
Going off message
Oh my. Police say an upstate New York television executive who sought to improve the image of Muslims in the media beheaded his wife after she filed for divorce. Yes. Really. I do not believe this is going to do much to reform the image of Muslims. Who knows, though? Maybe he anesthetized her first or […]
What she said
in reply, borrowing from Song of Songs: More delightful is your love than wine. My lover belongs to me and I to him. I sought him, whom my heart loves. I sought him but I did not find him. I will rise then and go about the city. In the streets and crossings I will seek him whom my heart loves. I […]
Then, and now
What I wrote in 2004: They still ride in the lock of time, breathing with trillions of others across three wide dimensions and a fourth still unbroken in one direction, and they know they will die but will never die, for this is the feeling that has moved every man from the first human stirring of heart […]
Oh, well yes, of course.
Naturally I’m in love with her, and told her so on Valentine’s Day.* I mean, duh. She can quote from Holy Grail**, knows what a d20 is, likes Firefly and doesn’t live in her parents’ basement. You just can’t do better than that. ==== * Awwwwwwww. ** Those of you thinking, “She’s got huge tracts of…” You […]
Hup!
I’m working on starting a stupid meme, derived partly from Harvey Birdman: Ending different thoughts with “…in my pants.”* A sort of combination of Bulwer-Lytton and adolescent humor, as in, “It was a dark and stormy night … in my pants.” The only real rule is that it’s got to be a recognizable literary reference. I mentioned this at […]
So much for that
And thus doth winter end. This is the same view as this morning. Amazing what a difference nine hours can make.
I’m dreaming of a white … uh, Valentine’s Day?
This is just plain weird. Now many, many, many of you might look at this and think oh, winter, so what? Well, this is what the landscape more normally looks like.
Two movies, one review
Went to see Inkheart and Coraline this weekend with the GF, and thought it might be constructive to do a parallel review of them, because to my mind they have at least a few things in common. Also note that there may be spoilers, depending on how you view things, below the fold here. For starters, I haven’t read […]
I miss the Talking Heads
I really do. I’ve been a fan for more than a quarter century. Eeriest part. “Years ago, I was an angry young man…” Byrne’s presentation, his face. Nice, effective. Eyes closed, then open, then closed again. That video was made twenty years ago. Christ, they all look so young. What does that mean about me?
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