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 …
How to make a Paul Frields Ingredients: 1 part friendliness 1 part humour 1 part ego Method:Combine in a tall glass half filled with crushed ice. Add a little cocktail umbrella and a dash of caring Username: Personality cocktailFrom Go-Quiz.com
Wait Tom, I’d like to make a list including a few more of the more heinous crimes against humanity perpetrated in the name of strengthening a dead writer’s estate: After the Ring: Stories in Honor of J. R. R. Tolkein Total Recall Extensions to “Dune” by Brian Herbert and Kevin …
Today was Evie’s first day of school. She was so excited when I put her to bed last night I was sure she’d wake us up before dawn with her backpack on, ready to hit the road. Fortunately she slept well — better than either of her parents to be …
The ugly weather from Tropical Storm Ernesto is keeping everyone in the house today, and the outlook for the weekend is pretty poor by all accounts. Those of you with small children know that when combined with a long weekend off work, this spells looming insanity. For some reason the …
The Artwork folks are gearing up for a next-gen theme based on the neat work MaÃrÃn (et al.?) did using a “DNA” look. They’re calling it “c6re” and I really dig that; it reminds me of Se7en.