I've been listening to a few different podcasts lately that I thought I should share with you all.

The first is an old standard for me: Escape Pod. It's been around for a while and you'll find a great selection of Science Fiction writing and reading here.

Next up is The Secret World Chronicles, which is a great example of professionals engaged in ( Read more... )

Whenever I set up a new windows machine, these are some of the free programs I install.
Text editing : GVIM
Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Powerpoint like stuff : Open Office
Music : Songbird
Video : Democracy Player
Chat : Pidgin  and Google Talk
Browsers: Firefox, Flock, and Opera
Free 3d: Blender
App launcher: Launchy
File Renaming: ReNamer
Adware ( Read more... )

So, the Mom is marrying someone of a rather ... different political viewpoint than mine. And apparently, he's pretty active about it.  So, I'm looking forward to meeting him at the wedding and finding some other common ground on which we can both stand.  I worry about my mom a little as she gets older and more afraid of everything. Oh, she'll still ( Read more... )

In an effort to have some sort of life on the weekends as well as make time to play with the red head, I've started getting up at 6am to do yard work. It's actually kind of nice. Other than the getting used to a schedule which I'd forgotten completely about, it's nice and quiet, everyone else on the block (for the most part), is sound asleep and ( Read more... )

We really have more than the usual problems and it's not going to get better until it gets worse, methinks.
Cheney and Bush, never ones to care about the law when it applies to them are working on stepping further into the turf of Very Bad for All of Us.

The latest in the humiliating affronts to the history of what we ("we" being americans; not ( Read more... )

The entropic forces have been working overtime!  My poor old leprous g4 TiBook has had it's last remaining hinge snap off so that the monitor half of the machine is terminally floppy and must be supported by an external force. A laptop splint of sorts.  I'm not too terribly worried about that as I've been dreaming of doing a bamboo casemod and this ( Read more... )

That I be. Mind exploded. Knees wobbly.
Diplomatic relations are good. Peace talks went very well.

Haha.. I saw you there with your lycra and wings standing there atop the pole like a crow about to swoop down on some choice bit of trash.  I know you must have thought you were nearly invisible with your eyes closed and two twinkies stuffed up your nostrils, but I could see you.. Oh yes. I could see you. I was equipped with my +7 sock garters of ( Read more... )

Sometimes I am melodramatic and little impatient. Luckily there are those who go far beyond my misunderestimationaryisms of them.

Non-competes that last beyond the term of employment are so much fun!  It's rather ironic that my moral opposition to them led to me having to live by one.  I was able to talk my former employer down to a "reasonable" three months. Reasonable being the minimum amount of time they felt they could bear to punish me for not working for them any longer ( Read more... )