June 2008
12 posts
An undetermined number of llamas →
Hee =)
Random music post for the day! This is one of my...
Kucinich →
This guy is a congressman. A representative. A public servant. I’m not sure what most of his colleagues are.
If impeachment is “off the table” as Nancy Pelosi says, then so is law itself.
When Nixon was impeached, it came from the people. The congress didn’t catch up at first. So Pelosi is mistaken. Impeachment is what is required and expected.
When Clinton was...
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“We’re going to need a lot of smart people in Washington to rebuild a lot...”
– Craig Newmark, addressing the graduating class of UC Berkeley, 2008.
Roadrunner, Roadrunner
Seems there’s a new supercomputer that can sustain a petaflop. I thought a petaflop was something my cat does when he’s happy. Turns out a petaflop is one thousand trillion floating point operations per second. Appropriately called Roadrunner, this beast was designed to run simulations of nuclear bomb explosions, presumably so they don’t have to blow up any real ones to see if...
Pop moment
Some former members of Cake had a band called Deathray. Why they called their band Deathray I don’t know. It’s not deathly music. It’s some high brow bittersweet power pop and I like it. They used to have an mp3 of this up on their site but no more. Found it on imeem. Gorgeous track, brilliant lyrics. I recently have had some insight into what it means when people say love...
Sunday musings
Today, I have a chance to reflect over a nice cuppa joe, and tap away on the laptop on my deck in the lovely Skalifornia sun. That is luxury, sirs and ladies, and a profoundly modern experience - to toss some ideas up online from a lawn chair, as text, audio, images or video, available instantly to the world, from a wireless network on a DSL at the end of a copper phone line, sharing random...
The Coffee Junkie’s Guide to Caffeine Addiction →
Having been there many times, I sympathize with the java junkies. I have a cup in the morning, every day, without fail. If I don’t, there is trouble. Anyone who has had the dreaded “coffee headache” knows what I mean. A debilitating throbbing inability to reason, manifested as pain. It happens if you’re a regular coffee drinker and you stop abruptly. Of all drugs, this is...
Unforgettable Band Names
There is a certain art to making up band names that are inherently puerile and antisocial. It is another thing to get a band together to live up to that name. Here are two now legendary examples.
Vomit Launch
With song titles like ”Boltcutters & Beer” and “Fuckerbarf,” it’s easy to understand their appeal.
Free Beer
Naturally the first few Free Beer shows were...
Teens await arrest after Comcast attack →
Teen hackers Defiant and EBK prepare for the inevitable after taking over Comcast’s web portal and toying with it. Principled lads, they say they didn’t swipe any usernames and passwords, though they could have. Said Defiant in an interview with Wired: ”I slept in my clothes, because the last time they came, I was in my underwear with my dong hanging out and shit.” Added...
Comments Away
As if there isn’t enough blather already in the blab-o-sphere, I have decided to install disqus to allow folks to plop their musings and ravings here. That is if we have anything to disqus.
