Wow – yesterday brought the amazing news that transparent aluminum, as depicted in Star Trek IV (aka: Save the Whales) is close to reality, sort of (they are actually talking about super-strong, transparent ceramics).Topping that, today brings us the news that flexible electronic paper displays, like those described in Neal Stephenson’s “Snow Crash” is closer […]
In general I like the trend amongst advertisers that have finally figured out that dancing is cool! Recently I have seen Michelin tire commercials and BASF commercials with Tango dancing. Now there is this re-make of the old Gene Kelly “Singing in the Rain” number from Volkswagon (Golf GTI Commercial). Pretty awesome dance moves, though […]
Today (September 19th) is national “Talk Like a Pirate Day” and ye should all be talkin’ like pirates, or else! Now I’ll swagger over to the grog barrel for more o’ that swill! Anxiously awaiting my letter of marque! Dirty Sam Flint Arrrrr! My pirate name is: Dirty Sam Flint I’m the pirate everyone else […]
Wow, Apple has finally done what we geeks have been asking them to do since Macintoshes first became interesting with the advent of Mac OS X! For the first time ever you can now buy a Macintosh without a monitor (allowing you to chose one you like, or use one you already have), without a […]
Erci and I just got back from a wonderful trip to sunny Arizona to visit my Aunt Kay, Uncle John, Aunt Vicki, Uncle Darl, and cousins Kyle, Kurt and Sarah. Erci and I fell in love with Flagstaff. It is a beautiful small city with about a hundred years of history, gorgeous vistas of the […]
I just descovered a really useful new (to me at least) application for my PalmOS PDA. It is called Plucker (http://www.plkr.org/), and it has a desktop component (Mac OS, Windoze, Linux) and a PalmOS component. The desktop can be configured to routinely fetch website content, RSS feeds, Usenet News feeds, and files and set them […]
My cousin Kyle sent me this awesome Presidential Confession which is floating around the email chain letter style lists at his university, and I just had to publish it. It is an mock confession from our mock president, but it really makes you think about what Shrub the lessor has done for our country. Think […]
