The general consensus, as reported by America’s media outlets, is that President Obama’s speech regarding the Gulf oil spill was “boring.” I missed the broadcast, though I read a transcript, and I wasn’t particularly impressed; while there was some good information there, it didn’t hit the mark for me. I was upset that the call […]

Yes, it’s that fateful Friday every year where I get to start resenting my kids because they don’t have to get up early every Monday through Friday for a couple of months, and I still do… THE LAST DAY OF SCHOOL™!!! Oh well, nothing to be done about it. Still, it’s cool another year’s gone […]

According to Sony at E3, it appears that we PS3 owners will finally be able to get our hands on Gran Turismo 5 on November 2, 2010. Of course, there have been release dates before, and they’ve come and gone. I’m hoping this one sticks. Prologue felt half finished, and while I had lots of […]

Not a terrible weekend; took an extra day, got a bunch of stuff done a day early, which was nice, because of all the end-of-year Girl Scout activites going on. Also, thanks to the newly-arrived car bike rack, we got a few good hours of trail riding in at the local park. Very nice. Saw […]

Typical work week…ups and downs and not enough productivity. “Speechless” – Lady GaGa “Pool Party” – The Aquabats “One Big Love” – Patty Griffin “Manhattan Project” – Rush “Don’t Tell Me (live)” – Avril Levigne “A Crippling Blow” – The Killers “Miracle of Life” – Yngwie Malmsteen “How Much More” – The Go-Gos “Utopia” – […]

Like everyone else in the world, I’ve been following the gulf oil spill story with interest. The whole business is unfortunate and generally terrible; it’s effect will likely be immeasurable; it’s already pretty much trashed the entire gulf coast regional economy, and it’ll take decades for the environment to recover, assuming it ever does completely. […]

Author Jeremy Robinson in his piece at io9 dealing with conflicting feelings about the resurgence of 80s pop culture treasures in modern media really hits on a common truth for many of us of a certain geeky vintage. GI:JOE. Transformers. Battlestar Galactica. V. The A-Team. Voltron. Thundercats. The Smurfs. It’s everywhere. Everything old is new […]

I recognize that this could be considered “old news”, but a while back, Wired magazine put up a link to an Autism Quotient test/questionaire, measuring the extent of autistic traits in adults. The test makes no claims to be a tool for diagnosis, but points out that higher scores correlate highly with diagnosed autism spectrum […]

Not much to speak of this week, so I didn’t. “Knife Going In” – Tegan and Sara “Jonas & Ezekial” – Indigo Girls “Life and How to Live It” – REM “Crocodile Smile” – Innocent Nixon “No Cars Go” – Arcade Fire “Never Say Never” – that dog. “Lovegame” – Lady GaGa “Answering Machine” – […]

All the bot comments in my spam folder this weekend seemed oddly impressed with my “great jeans” for some reason. In a way, I’m glad my jeans are great, because for whatever reason, I feel like crap…damn these random virii. The weekend was nothing special, though thanks to the magic of Netflix Instant Watch, I […]