Went sailing today, but by the time we finished fixing the last-minute stuff it was pretty late after all. BUT we got in at least 2 hours of nice sailing, mostly floundering around trying to avoid sharp rocks and marina buoys, lol ( Read more... )

I am distracting myself with my newfound sailing obsession. Last week my Dad donated an ancient (1962 or so) Vagabond 17 to me, he bought it for $300 when it was going to be junked and it's been sitting in his yard for the last two years. Fiberglass apparently lasts forever, unlike love, lol.

Here it is!


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Bunny has invoked his beta key from Blizzcon to get into the Wrath of the Lich king Beta test. I haven't been too interested in World of Warcraft (WoW) lately because I've been trying to work on my art. But still, it's very tempting to invoke my own beta key and try it out. I probably will at some point.

Here's something that you almost certainly will be completely absolutely and totally uninterested in. But in the faint hope that I might be wrong, I'll send it to you anyway. The Project Gutenberg web page for "Animal Farm", George Orwell's parable of farmyard soviet communism. It's surprisingly readable, and abundant with true metaphor.

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The critic and the artist, the observer and the quantum particle ( Read more... )

Some insights about the Semantic Web ( Read more... )

I wrote this as a comment about a post on Digg about Ray Kurzweil and I think it went to a surprising place (for me) so I'm going to repost it here ( Read more... )

This is an interesting and revealing note about Hunter S. Thompson (the guy who wrote "Hell's Angels", "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and other extremely influential stuff) Everyone always thought he was a drugged out drunkard, but his wife says he actually worked incredibly hard and did strong research for all of his books. Oh, and by they way ( Read more... )

I've been reading randomly about Huey Long in his wikipedia entry (I was looking for funny filibuster stories) and it's some pretty shocking stuff. Here's this ultimate democrat people's politician who wanted nothing more than to take from the rich and give to the poor... and yet he assembled an insanely scary political machine that gave him near- ( Read more... )