I've struggled with depression my whole life, and up until 4 years ago, I couldn't point to any part of my life I looked back on fondly. That all changed when I moved to the Boston area for a job. I got my life in order, started making some pretty good money, made some friends, earned a lot of respect at work, and really liked the job ( Read more... )

Ever get sick of all the damn text formatting you get when you copy and paste text? All you want to do is copy an email address from your IM into a document and you end up getting it blue and underlined? Or when you copy some text from a web page to paste into an email and it shows up 5x normal size and bold and in some other font ( Read more... )

The House has unveiled a new Healthcare reform bill ( Read more... )

Michael Jackson is dead. He died some time ago. There are other things going on in the world. For the love of god, move on to a different top story.

Also, Give up on Swine Flu, it wasn't the media sensation you were hoping for.

That is all.

I was bored, so I wrote a video game version of a solitaire card game I invented a long time ago. Yes it's an executable, but I can assure you it's virus free because I wrote it myself ( Read more... )

Important Lessons I learned from animated Disney movies:

Movie: Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
Lesson: If you have a problem, do nothing about it, and wait for other people to solve it for you.
Explanation: At no point did Snow White take any proactive action on her own behalf at all. Aside from running away into the forest when the huntsman told ( Read more... )

When Farrah Fawcett arrived at heaven, God granted her one wish. She wished for all the children to be safe. So God killed Michael Jackson.

I'm working on this short essay, just for my own use, possibly to put on a page somewhere and link to people when I want to explain my (controversial and highly opinionated) views on modern environmentalism. I'd appreciate any feedback, but more on the writing itself than in rebuttals. Though always happy to listen to alternate points of view, my ( Read more... )

I just got back from iCon28, a science fiction convention. Much fun was had by all. One thing I didn't expect was a seminar on global climate change, poking holes in the bad science used on both sides of the issue. It was really interesting and, I'll admit, nudged me a little toward believing humans had a non-negligable part to play. I remain a ( Read more... )

Am I the only one who noticed that the G20 protesters shown on the news, all of them, are extremely young? Like... the median age there has to be around 20 ( Read more... )