Stevens Pass will open on Thursday.

First, in May, we have Terminator Salvation.

Then, in June, we have Ghostbusters: The Video Game.

Oh yeah.

A post on the Daily Kos this morning had me thinking about the automotive industry a bit, and how reliability drives down demand if people are satisfied with what they have. The first car I drove was an '87 Jeep Cherokee, and it was fine for college, but I treated it like crap, and thus, by the time I realized it needed regular maintainance, it ( Read more... )

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Apparantly, I'm famous enough that on November 22nd, someone saw fit to add my name to the Notable Alumni section of the Wikipedia entry for RPI. I find this really weird, and I'm genuinely curious as to who thinks I rank up there with Ivar Giaever and Washington Roebling. I'll take it, but you know, I have neither a Nobel Prize nor a world ( Read more... )

One (more) thing I have to give credit to Obama for is answering the question I've always had about what a President-Elect does between Election Day and Inauguration Day. I always thought they got a tour of the White House, then spent the next three months memorizing nuke codes and cramming on every secret and policy that the US Government has, in ( Read more... )

You technology people like open workspaces? You would prefer them to offices where you can close the doors and get some heads-down work done?

Let's say you were starting a small company, or joining a startup. Assuming money were no issue for yourself or your future employer, how would you describe your ideal office environment? Cubes, open space, or private offices? What kind of common space would you have? What would the feel of the place be like? What must be there, and what ( Read more... )

I'm a tech geek, no surprise there, but I'm actually excited for the first time in a while (8 years or so?) about some of the new tech that's available or on the horizon. Two things of note that are really neat, even though I won't own either within the next five years:

The nVidia Tesla Personal Supercomputer: Using four non-graphic cards based ( Read more... )

An example of a contested ballot, where voter intent is clearly uncertain.

Except not.