I am a product of my culture and a bit of a computer geek and, as such, have an affinity for getting the newest, most up-to-date x (where x = “pretty much damn near anything tech/computer related). Of course, I have never had the income to really pursue that affinity to the lengths that I …
There are lots of ’em out there: people who don’t understand the difference between science and religion, people who prefer fantasy to fact, people who think that imposing their own particular reason on children through the school system is a perfectly fine and decent thing to do, people who choose to stick their head in …
I’m trying not to get my hopes impossibly high for this but I haven’t been this excited for a movie since I was 13 and was waiting for Return of the Jedi to be released.
Joy. Elation. Excitement. Pride. Patriotism. Many have already written about the events of yesterdays inauguration, and many will write and talk further about this important moment in our history as a nation.I want to simply say, now is the time for us, the American people, to re-engage with our democracy, and to do so in …
I’ve been storing various links in my rss feed reader that I wanted to share with you folks for several weeks now and haven’t gotten around to posting them, so here goes: Amanda Marcotte has an excellent deconstruction of a recent evolutionary psychology “study.” (You’ll see why the scare quotes if you read her article.) …
Sharing some fun videos. Enjoy! An amazing film that creates an entire world, offers compelling characters, and scary action scenes and does it in a few minutes and with no dialogue: 9 Nine Shane Acker Short Animation by FrFKmeron A lovely rendition of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” on a ukelele: If you never watched …
Can I just say, by all that is holy, unholy, and iambic pentameter:
He’s a Montague . . . and a Zombie! (Ok, not so much with the iambic pentameter, but still)
These are old photos of a very young Lila, but they are just so frakin’ cute that I wanted to post them. I don’t think I posted much about Lila when Joya and I got her in the fall of 2006 because I’d yet to accept the fact that I went completely bonkers for her. Now I just recognize that I’m that guy: the one who would rather live with a cat than with another person.
I miss her, but am very glad she’s keeping Joya company.
I’m trying to be healthier in my food choices, and more frugal in my spending choices. I recently purchased Absolute Fitness1 for my iPhone and have been tracking my nutrition and caloric intakes (along with my very sporadic and very low level of exercise right now—I know, I know, I’m working on it). Simply taking …
For over a year, I’ve bemoaned the fact that Apple’s iWork suite doesn’t perform auto-saves considering that nearly every other office suite or stand-alone word processing program offers this feature. Maybe I was wrong and Steve Jobs was right. I’ve been working with Office 2007 at my temp job to put together reports that combine text and a significant number of images. And every so often, as I’m working, the program stops responding while it creates an automatic back-up and I wait for the back-up to finish. The wait isn’t long, mind you, but enough to stop my work flow and annoy the heck out of me. So I’m reconsidering my stance on the whole auto-save situation. In the end, I think I still wish iWork offered the option and, instead of timed back-ups, performed them whenever there was no activity happening in the document (I think that’s how Scrivener and some other programs handle the process). However, I can sort of see the logic of not including this feature in iWork. I still think its a flawed logic, but I will probably complain less about the lack of auto-save than before.