Had a few minutes this evening to sift through the old corrupted db backup, and restored some version of all the lost posts…they should even mostly be in the right order. Given the weirdness of the DB formatting, and the existence of multiple versions of a post (one for each revision, apparently, and I fix […]

so yeah, this page looks a little…uh, blank and generic today. I tried to be diligent and back up the database last night, and somehow hosed everything up real good. luckily, I have a good backup with all the posts; hopefully I’ll be able to import the last three years of posts with some level […]

I vaguely remember hearing a few rumblings in my preferred corners of the internet regarding this essay by comedian-actor-geek Patton Oswalt about the simultaneous mainstreaming and death of nerd culture when it was published last December, though never managed to get around to it until very recently. Most of the reaction to the essay was […]

Here below, you’ll find a generally good representation of the numerous permutations of how all-encompassing the word “geek” has become. It’s become so mainstream that some of us who are represented by pretty much the entirety of the top 2/3 of the chart should really think about calling us something else. Or not. Still, I […]

In theory, I should be back to my usual schedule of rants, record reviews, and obsessive theories about automotive pontiffs directly. Where was I? Nowhere; I just took some time off to address some meatspace things, mostly, though mostly to take a few days’ exile from the office grind. I was on the computer a […]

No, I haven’t died or quit or anything, I’m just off doing other things that don’t involve pouring random thoughts into the computer. The usual course of programming shall return eventually, have no fear.

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