Haven't actually started working yet but haven't had a chance to get out much either. We're staying in Werneuchen, wich is a small villiage near Berlin, at a huge house with a nice dog and 4 cats where bobbie and I share our own huge room with east-ish and south-ish facing windows... with no internet and no microwave. It's positively barbaric ( Read more... )

I ride my bike alot (27mph ebike of awesome). I'm pretty safe and considerate often going out of my way and beyond my responsibilities to not impede the flow of traffic. But I'll make a confession: I don't always follow "the rules". Sometimes drivers get mad at me for not following "the rules" but here's the funny thing ( Read more... )

Need DDR2 desktop RAM. At this point I'll take anything so I can at least install OS on a new system for Jeremy Hiebel to repay him for the fantastic work he's been doing on my house. Paying for 1-2gb sticks. Plz help I have no car and almost no free time to run out and get some.

I'm beginning to think we are already past the point where merely reducing use of fossil fuel and forest conservation will avert catastrophic climate change. A degree or two warmer and the Siberian permafrost will quickly (1 or 2 summers based on my limited understanding) release an amount of carbon roughly equivalent to burning down all the rain ( Read more... )

"Person A is allowed to violate the Liberty of Person B and Person C in order to preserve a some minor freedom of Person C" A form of fascism championed by muddle-minded libertarians (as long as they are in group C ( Read more... )

To make sure we're keeping our terms straight I will attempt to define the "memory" in the context of computer hardware a way that is useful and timeless ( Read more... )

Open mindedness is about considering new information that might show you to be wrong about something. Refusing to have an opinion in the first place out of fear of being wrong is called ambivalence. I can be wrong a million times and still change my mind and be right. If I never take a stand I will be wrong forever. Having an opinion but refusing ( Read more... )

The news stories about this are making zero sense to me. The military never had a "don't ask don't tell" policy. CONGRESS has a "don't ask don't tell" policy that they make the military implement. There was high level resistance from within the military when it was being passed; they didn't want a policy telling them what to do with gays they ( Read more... )

Oh, what a saga that was. But it's done. Our flight is booked and we're going to Boston for training. HUZZAH ( Read more... )

I want to start a new society on the moon. Expressing values in hexadecimal little-endian format will be the norm. Eventually people will forget all about how people used to count backwards from the way they wrote the numbers and we'll live happily ever after in harmony with natural addressing schemes.

Hexadecimal is better simply because it ( Read more... )