Archive for August, 2004
End of Life Crisis
A week ago, I was eating lunch and saw a family (mom + dad + late teenage years girl) on the next table just finishing up their lunch and leaving. Nothing special right? Wrong. 60+ years mom still believes she is hip and with-it by dressing as a 15 year old girl. I’m not farting [...]
Dude, Where’s My Time?
So I’m up in Boston for the weekend for 2 reasons. 1) Bring back the last of my stuff to VA. 2) Help D move from Boston to her new home 2 hours away. For a little person, D has an amazing amount of stuff. I hate her. I hate moving. I hate strenuous activity [...]
Everyday Things…
So I’m in my new place, moving stuff around so that the cable guy* (Ernie Douglas, friends call him Chip) can actually see the spot where I want the cable connection in the wall. I’m opening up boxes, putting stuff where I think it belongs. I open my food box, toss my soup cans in [...]
Ego? Superego? Nope, it’s id
First Halo, now Doom 3. Why the hell does the PC version not include Co-op multiplayer, but the XBox version does? So sign the petition to include co-op in a future patch for Doom III. http://www.petitiononline.com/doomcoop/ Disappointed in id Software. Doom 1 & 2 had co-op multiplayer, it was fun as hell, but these days [...]
Wherefore art thou Barry Allen?
Monday the 9th: Did a lot of packing. Left at 9:30pm for an 11 hour drive from Boston to VA. Wednesday the 11th: Drove 2 hours to Northern VA to look for a place to live. Had sushi with a friend. Thursday the 12th: Looked at some more places in N. VA. Signed a lease. [...]
My Body, a.k.a. The Orchestra
OK, so I didn’t really want to talk about this, but I will because I can’t really think of a real reason not to. So last weekend I attended the AMCIS conference in New York City with a former CS professor of mine. I had to make a presentation of a paper a few of [...]
B.S. from The Electoral College
The Founding Fathers created a government out of scratch beautifully, checks & balances still boggle my mind, but they did make some mistakes…honest. The Electoral College Not abolishing slavery Not planning for a two party system Right now I’m going to talk quickly about the first blunder, The Electoral College. What do these elections have [...]