The always inimitable Audrey of Seattlest fame just mentioned that Philip K. Dick was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. It’s about time, in my opinion. Dick’s storytelling has done more to shape modern science fiction than just about...
Gizmodo: Sometimes I ask him to rub my feet. Sometimes I ask him to explain himself very slowly, then close the AIM window and do it all over again while I fry up some bacon. (it’s far more innocuous than it sounds ;-)
I made a donation just now to the ACLU. Although I have always supported them in spirit, I decided now was a perfect opportunity to support them financially. I make more than enough money to support causes dedicated to–among other causes–Gay and L...
I just found my new favorite weblog, The Darth Side - Memoirs of a Monster: …You try to be an effective manager, you weed out the bad apples like the late Admiral Ozzel – only to find that an insidious culture of incompetence has somehow transform...
Ruy Texiera has an interesting analysis of El Presidente’s first hundred days in his second term: The President’s miscalculation that a 2.5 percent margin of victory in the popular vote constitutes a mandate for trashing the New Deal’s most popula...
Ah, the good kids at MIT are at it again. There’s going to be a time travelers’ conference on May 7th. Specifically, it will be at: May 7, 2005, 10:00pm EDT (08 May 2005 02:00:00 UTC) East Campus Courtyard, MIT 42:21:36.025°N, 71:05:16.332°W...
Today should be Tiger Day here at the sixDollarChimp ranch. We’re heading out to pick up a copy as soon as we can rouse ourselves from our slumber on this hopefully beautiful Saturday morning. Friday would have been Tiger Day, but bigger (babel’in...
May 14 2005.
I touched upon two wildly different political viewpoints today in my reading. The first was from another Mac shareware developer, Eric Barzeski, who wrote a truly chilling blog entry about his freaky conservative beliefs in guns, guns, everywhere!...
Another Sunday means another iRooster update. This week saw a few developments. iRooster for Mac OS X I am still plowing through v2.1.1. I released Beta 4 this week, which features a large reduction in lines of code in the project (I cut out ab...