I was supposed to go to sleep early last night, but I made the mistake of checking Wikipedia just after midnight. Since then (Reddit), I've been watching one site (Boing Boing) after another (Mozilla) after another (Craig's List) go dark (Free Software Foundation). I've been up (Word Press) all night (Ars Technica) in search of (Cute Overload ( Read more... )

My goals for this evening were:

1. Buy groceries.
2. Pay the bills.
3. Ensure the weekly backups are under way.
4. Get to bed early.

Yes, I tried to get something done on a Sunday. Stop laughing. Anyway, the body count:

1. Didn't get to the grocery store early enough - Daylight Savings Time.

craigjclark has talked me into the theaters to see the new Tron this weekend. I laughed out loud when he told me it was in 3-D. “I thought we'd seen the last of them in Captain EO.” Craig has known me since 1991 and really shouldn't be surprised when I say things like this.

Tron: Legacy has me apprehensive, to say the least. Star Wars may have been the ( Read more... )

It seems I picked up a cold at the holiday party last weekend. No, not on the 18th… on the 11th. Life has short-changed me a week this December. Anyone have a spare?

Back in college when I worked for an ambulance service, my immune system occasionally got bored crushing hapless microbes, so it would stalk the neighborhood while I slept and ( Read more... )

A few months ago, I noticed that I had unintentionally given up watching movies. In fact, Up was simply “the 2010 movie” until last Tuesday. After a trip to the Mütter Museum, a group of friends and friends-of-friends made The Room “2010's other movie”.

We had intended to buffer the badness with a RiffTrax accompanimentbut that fell through ( Read more... )

Why do I find the idea of National Novel-Writing Month so appealing? I don't read fiction any more. I haven't even tried in over a year, because my disbelief suspenders are likely to snap without warning. I should have zero interest in writing it.

Actually, I'm pretty sure I don't really want to ( Read more... )

Last night, I watched two episodes of Connections 2 on an old VHS tape, and I realized that it was the first time in 2010 that I'd used my TV for anything other than playing CDs.

I did see a couple episodes of The Muppet Show at a friend's house, and she insisted I watch Pixar's Up when she found out I'd never heard of it ( Read more... )

Mon 04 Oct 2010 at 19:00 (that's 7:00pm for you weird 12-hour people): Alton Brown will be signing his latest book at the Princeton Market Fair's Barns & Noble.

Author events at B&N are usually pretty short, but Good Eats is “that other show I'd watch if I watched TV”, so I'll go see him.

The fashion world has once again reminded me that I am not part of this culture…

After wasting the better part of a day searching for a minor upgrade to my interview clothes, I have learned that no man under the age of 40 - and no woman of any age - has even heard of a tie tack, let alone knows where I could buy one ( Read more... )

I don't trust electronic voting machines, and I never have. The brand we use here in New Jersey is made by Sequoia, who got up to all sorts of shenanigans before getting bought by Dominion in June.

If you were a security researcher who discovered numerous security holes in electronic voting machines, you might sound the alarm by demonstrating ( Read more... )