It seems that  "Grey's Law" is popping up in various places all over the internet, although no one quoting it seems to know me, or indeed who I am.

Wonder how it got out there.

Clarke's Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

Grey's Law: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

Public schools become cesspools of psychological ill-health, in various forms, precisely because it's an environment that encourages the spread and growth of these 'contagious' psychological malfunction memes. Children need adult attention, lots of it, to grow up healthy. But our culture has created the necessity for both parents to be primarily ( Read more... )

Sometimes, when those about us act crazy, or even hateful, we must remind ourselves that humans are machines, and machines break ( Read more... )

It occurs to me that there's an intermediate species between sentient lifeforms and pre-sentient hominids ( Read more... )

Okay, this is ridiculous ( Read more... )

Item: Cowon iAudio G3 Portable Mp3 player

I recently received this item as a gift from some very good friends. Thank you, very good friends.

Because I feel like it, I'm writing a brief review.

Portable Mp3 players are the flavor of the year... it seems that everyone who is anyone in electronics is marketing one, some more successfully (and ( Read more... )

Take one American city ( Read more... )

More network simulations. Finally got around to writing some code that dumps state, so interrupted runs can be resumed. Trust me, when each test takes about 36-72 hours, this matters ( Read more... )

Saw it a few days ago with some friends ( Read more... )