I do believe that was just the sound of the netbook market dying.

(Not that there aren't legitimate reasons to prefer a general-purpose computing device, but that was a lot of price advantage that just vanished into thin air.)

It is with sadness in my heart that I announce the death (or mostly-death) of Adjudicator, my loyal and much-abused MacBook Pro as a result of unexpected complications from accidental damage a year and a half ago. Although the display mysteriously revived the other day, something has clearly affected the logic board, and repair is unfeasible ( Read more... )

A man, a plan, a canal: Suez.

( Update to the list of English manga for sale )

Project: Snowblind, as part of its dedication to historical accuracy, has a roll of all soldiers killed in the 2065 Hong Kong uprising.

I'm on Twitter now as Jon_dArc. Be aware that following me is unlikely to be terribly entertaining, as I've decided to avoid using English on it.

Unless an owner appears to claim her, it looks like by the end of break I will become the owner of twelve pounds of medium-hair dark brown/black cat.

Pictures sometime.

So in what will be the six-month-long process of preparing to leave Terre Haute, I am conducting a Book Purge to reduce the amount of stuff I have to haul back across the country. My plan is to sell some of this to people on campus and put the rest on the "free to take" table in the CS department, but I figured I should post the list here in case ( Read more... )

Yet another reminder that not all cultures are hung up on precisely the same issues, at least not to the same degree: reading a manga series serialized in a magazine targeted at the general audience of teenage boys by an author with no particular connection that I can identify to transgender-acceptance causes in which romantic/non-explicit erotic ( Read more... )

"The first rule of the game is that in this discussion we must regard science as if it were an end in itself. We both know that it never is, yet we must do 'as if', because, whatever the ends may be, you will never get any agreement on them. (At an American computer conference a few years ago, the keynote speaker explained that computing science ( Read more... )