April 27 13
As sometimes happens, last night I found myself watching youtube videos of Carl Sagan and Neil DeGrasse Tyson and other astronomer/astrophysicist heroes of mine. I’ve also been reading Gene Kranz’s wonderful memoirs, Failure is Not An Option, and, well, it’s just got me thinking of space a lot this morning. In the time that I’ve been [...]
August 10 10
Using the WordPress for Android app. Super nice! I dunno if this is how I’m going to post from now on. This is a little… small.
August 7 10
So, as I was saying, I recently changed hosting companies for this blog and all my other sites, domains, and all. I cavalierly decided to delete my slicehost account before having everything set up and working over here, which was infinitely foolish of me. Turns out that if you want to back up a wordpress [...]
April 11 10
. . . in Google Maps street view. Amazing! Also in Google Earth!
February 28 10
Being from the South, of course I’d heard the old (neoconservative) wives’ tale that the peace symbol is meant to be an inverted, broken cross. I was killing time reading some hilarious article on Cracked.com, and found this site alleging that Mikhail Gorbachev is the antichrist, somehow.
January 15 10
In the midst of the collective outpouring of grief and support throughout the world for the people of Haiti, struck this week by a mind-blowing magnitude 7 earthquake, there was one man who just couldn’t pass up the opportunity to babble hate-speech incoherently on the teeveebox. That man is Pat fucking Robertson, who I would [...]
December 30 09
I’ve been working on a very simple productivity app for the past week or so. It’s a to-do list application, written with Ruby on Rails, that works in web browsers and mobile (for now just iPhone) browsers, and it’s tentatively called Listinator 2000.
December 22 09
It’s an oldie but a goodie. Anyone remember this meme? ( for Tina )
December 19 07
So . . . you’re climbing Mt Everest. It’s -4°F and really windy. You’re climbing. . . . What happens if you have to pee?
December 13 07
Okay. It’s finally happened. I have found the cutest picture in the whole internet. BEHOLD! moar funny pictures