December 2008
44 posts
DL650 V-Strom Modifications →
November 2008
40 posts
geeking out just before a night on the town
whew, my desktop g5 is not toast. I may get it back today
off to my girlfriend’s place in Issaquah for turkey day
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Atlas Shrugged... →
The Benefits and Hazards of the Philosophy of Ayn... →
The Hazards: Confusing reason with “the reasonable” Encouraging repression Encouraging moralizing Conflating sacrifice and benevolence Overemphasizing the role of philosophical premises Encouraging…
random geeky idea: mount a 5-key chording keyboard on the inside of my motorcycle’s left handle guard. but what would it operate? hmm
following up on actionable interactions from #mindcamp
great - the FDA has issued a “black box” warning about the medicine I’m taking: http://tinyurl.com/5fe2pu
the sun is shining and I’m having a nice quiet day after #mindcamp amazingness
off to #mindcamp at Synapse!
it looks like my unlocked iPhone 2G won’t have to wait too long for firmware 2.2: http://tinyurl.com/6fmxhf
The American Conservative -- Jacobin in Chief -... →
Modern conservatism was born in opposition to Jacobin universalism. The father of conservatism, Edmund Burke, was an English liberal, a Whig, who was very friendly to the American colonists; he…
GOGBOT 2008 Steampunk - Art Media Music Technology... →
Steampunk’s key lessons are not about the past. They are about the instability and obsolescence of our own times. A host of objects and services that we see each day all around us are not…
Azul Systems - Cliff Click Jr.’s Blog - A Brief... →
“I had an email conversation between myself, David Moon & Daniel Weinreb. For the younger readers: David Moon is one of the original architects of the Symbolics machines, which 20 years ago…
BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | Four philosophical... →
turned my g5 tower over to mac professionals. It seems the drive itself is not the problem, and it might be a mobo issue
I’ll be at Ruby Restaurant in the U-district tonight for #SeaFunc
Q: should I work solely from my macbook and wait until Black Friday to replace my G5’s drive?
time to replace my primary serial ATA drive
bleh, my dual g5 mac desktop does not want to boot this morning
A: (to my own question) yes, I think I can work like this, with my macbook hooked into all of my ordinary peripherals and console
Charlie's Diary: "Where do you get your ideas?" →
Charles Stross finally reads about Bruce Sterling’s Spime idea. I was convinced that he had been influenced by it a couple of years ago…
V-Strom Owners Map Project →
Safe from the Losing Fight » How to Price Your... →
There will be an iPhone app bust. The current prices simply arenât sustainable. Either developers will crash out of the market when they discover they canât make a living off their current…
Pinax →
Pinax is an open-source collection of integrated, but reusable apps for the Django Web Framework. By integrating numerous reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites have in…
enjoying a calm morning before today’s Prop 8 protest
holy moses, tonight was hot!
wondering what to do with my weekend now that my girlfriend is out of town
The Virtual Company Project - Do Tank and the... →
The goal of the Virtual Company Project is to build online tools to help groups create and implement governance rules necessary for successful collaboration. The project is premised on the belief…
How people really use the iPhone - SlideShare →
The real reason ethanol won't—and can't—cut... →
Unless or until inventors can come up with a substance (or substances) that can replace all of the products that are refined from a barrel of crude oilâfrom gasoline to naphtha and diesel to…
6 years today of veteran-hood
5 minutes start to finish for today’s injection. This is a routine I can handle.
feeling a lack of constructive professional discussion lately. Both the blogging crowd and the IRC crowd are lacking in uncomfortable ways.
Oxford Researchers List Top 10 Most Annoying... →
The great hierarchy of verbal fatigue includes:
1 - At the end of the day
2 - Fairly unique
3 - I personally
4 - At this moment in time
5 - With all due respect
6 - Absolutely
7 - It’s a nightmare
8…
The latest research on the correlation between... →
The sorry state of American atheists, then, may have nothing to do with their lack of religious belief. It may instead be the result of their outsider status within a highly religious country where…
I’ve never seen Seattlites as happy as last night. Dancing in the streets is so much fun. :)
that went alright, though it’s still a little awkward. now I’ll likely have some real stomach butterflies to go with pre-election anxiety :)
practicing the Raptiva injection ritual - first time solo
Are terrorists regaining the advantage over our... →
In attacks that escalated from the 1970s through Sept. 11, 2001, terrorists exploited and demonstrated a huge advantage over life-valuing societies: […] they’re more willing to kill and die than we…