Out in Salt Lake City this week, I have a chance to catch up with some friends from work, many of whom I haven’t seen — gosh, in years. I get to bang on some Linux related stuff all day, such as writing some Python code. I use “code” very …
No, not because of Guy Fawkes, about whom I was well aware long before V for Vendetta, but because it’s our wedding anniversary. Eleven years later and she’s still the one against whom I measure all others. You’re the greatest, E! Since Sunday is a terrible night for an outing, …
Boing Boing has a great blurb on using the absentee ballot as a way of avoiding the flaw-riddled fiasco that masquerades as electronic voting in far too many American jurisdictions. Is it possible that we could have a system of collecting votes that is based on the laughable principle of …
For a while I’ve been doing the Fedora Weekly News Out Loud podcast in English, spurred on by the inimitable Messrs. Chung and Canniot. But when FWN came back on line last week, I felt my momentum had ebbed, and I didn’t cover either issue 61 or 62 (yet). This …
In response to my friends at Reasonable Nuts: What I don’t understand is how anyone can claim this is some kind of unsung victory. The budget deficit is just the amount that the government overspent this year. The fact that it fell does not mean we are somehow magically paying …
(Cached on disk since Tuesday evening, just got online to post it tonight.) It’s been an extraordinarily long time, relatively speaking, since I last posted, but I swear, Dear Reader, that it’s only because I was trapped under something heavy, called WORKLOAD. It’s a heartless monster that spirits you away …
Last minute FC6 Release Notes changes are rolling in over the last few days, which is great since we’re snapshotting this evening. You have just a few hours left! Once again, we will have, as Karsten put it, the best release notes in all Linux.
Tonight Eleya pointed out the cover of this month’s Parenting magazine, which featured the blurb, “6 Surprising Things Your Baby Really Needs.” Of course, before reading the article, we had to come up with our own list: Ferrari Walther PPK Expense account Butcher knife Bartending guide Mistress Needless to say, …
Mark Danielewski’s first novel House of Leaves is largely an empty shell — albeit cleverly ornamented with many onion-layers of allegory, wordplay, text ciphers, typographic ingenuity, Wallace-esque footnotes, postmodernist fourth-wall conceits, and a suffocating sense of dread — which asks reader to imprint their own paranoid musings and fantasies to …