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May 09, 2005
Miscellaneous

PK Dick

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...

May 03, 2005
Video Games

Feet and Bacon

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 ;-)

May 03, 2005
Personal Life

Civil Liberties

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...

May 02, 2005
Random Funniness

When Star Wars Meets LiveJournal

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...

May 02, 2005
Politics

The Quagmire President

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...

May 01, 2005
Technology

Uber-Geeks

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...

Apr 30, 2005
iRooster

Tiger

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...

Apr 25, 2005
Politics

You Don’t Apologize For Being Right

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!...