In the Not Too Distant Future

October 31, 2007 -- Tags: , Beware the Woods, Evil, Fear, MST3K, Observations

Happy Halloween, people! I’ll be celebrating the old fashioned way: Summoning demons in the woods. If you have a spare ram’s head you can join me.

Joel Hodgson of Mystery Science Theater 3000 fame is starting a new project with a bunch of old hands from the show. This project is [...]

BSOD

October 30, 2007 -- Tags: 'Doze

So one of the interesting things about Leopard is that machines running Windows show up on your network as old school CRTs showing the BSOD (Blue Screen of Death):

Some people are crying into their soup about how this is very smug and mean of Apple. Big salty tears are pouring from their faces as [...]

A Red Letter Day

October 29, 2007 -- Tags: Observations, Weirdoes, Writing

I picked our good friend Lloyd up from the airport yesterday. Then we went to 3rd Street Promenade to get him a new computer and watch people.
3rd Street is a great place to watch people. It’s crowded and there are buskers and plenty of weirdoes. Weirdoes are my favorite [...]

Def Leopard

October 27, 2007 -- Tags: Macs, Narrowly-Averted-Disaster, Technology

So I installed Leopard on my machines. I’m a frequent early adopter. El Jobso comes out with something, I’m there in line.
Speaking of which, I got a free t-shirt.
A word of caution to potential upgraders: BACK UP YOUR STUFF. The upgrade went flawlessly on my laptop, but on [...]

Short Stories

October 26, 2007 -- Tags: Short Stories

Here are some really great short stories you can read online for free. Each of these is either a mind bending gem or says something holy about the human spirit. Enjoy.
The Bet by Anton Chekhov — A man makes a wager over whether he can keep himself imprisoned, trading years of his [...]

Brandy Alexander

-- Tags: MUJI

I have gotten word from all the news that’s fit to print that Muji is coming to NYC in full force. This is good news for people that don’t like to be walking advertisements for corporate structures.
I really like the idea of products with no branding on them. From what I [...]