The mystery hacker who inspired the film War Games
Nice interview over at Venture Beat with the hacker that provided the inspiration for the character David Lightman in the movie War Games.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
What’s Going On: The Rainbow Connection
It’s all about the metallic oxide salts 
Friday, August 1, 2008
Happy & Sad Day
It’s both a happy and sad day. My ENGL SE amplifier is officially sold, as I received the first of two payments for it this morning. The SE is an amazing amplifier and I’m going to miss it, but at the same time it really is complete overkill for what my needs are.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Dozens blinded in India looking for Virgin Mary
Dozens blinded in India looking for Virgin Mary - Telegraph
I don’t think I could sum it up better than my friend Corey, so I’ll just link to his post:
blinded by the light
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Leaving Baghdad: What Should the Americans Do? - New York Times Blog
It’s nice to see something that I have been saying for months actually show up in a media outlet. It seems fairly straight forward to me, but is something I haven’t heard a single politician mention. It’s fairly simple. We took an industrialized, advanced nation and bombed it back to the stone age. We have a moral responsibility to repair the damage we caused, period. How we got there is irrelevant at this point.
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Banned - Welcome to Nanny State Nation
A fond thank you to Drew Carey for this one.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
CNN Political Ticker: Clinton wants help with campaign debt
So let me get this straight. Hillary spent $20 million of her own money promoting herself in her quest for personal power. Now that she’s lost, she expects people to pay her back the money she spent on herself? What the hell. Where can I sign up for this program?
I think the scariest thing is to be found in some of the response comments on CNN. I’m not a particularly big Obama fan, but come on people, the voters decided Hillary lost. Maybe if she had accepted the fact when it was obvious to everybody else she wouldn’t have wasted so much money. In addition please spare me this crap that she was some sort of victim. This graceless whining is just pathetic.
Monday, June 23, 2008
George Carlin Dies at 71
It’s a sad, sad day. We’ll miss you George 
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Electric Cars, A Brief Rant
I’m on a few forums and recent topics of conversation have been electric cars and hybrids. First off let me say I think low or no emissions vehicles are a great idea, and we should definitely pursue them. What I am tired of are people that don’t actually think about the subject. They see electric cars as some magical kind of pollution free panacea that will save us all from the bad things we’re supposed to be afraid of like global warming. They’re not. Just because the car runs on electricity and doesn’t produce pollution doesn’t mean the generation of the electricity was pollution free. If you’re in the eastern US odds are that the electricity powering that car came from a coal burning power plant, and produced more pollution than a gasoline engine would have. Also consider what the introduction of millions of electric cars would do to the power grid in a state like California where large parts of the grid are already overtaxed and brownouts are common.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Broke 10,000 Words
Anne’s out of town for the weekend, so I’ve been watching movies and writing. I broke 10,000 words on Sex in the Emerald City 
I need to do some more brainstorming and outlining, but I’m at least making progress. I also need to come up with a new title, as the original doesn’t really fit beyond the original shorter idea.