Experimenting with a new look
No doubt you were shocked just now if you are one of my regular visitors. Yes, the site looks weird at the moment: I'm experimenting with a different WordPress theme,…
I am twittering…for now
I have had a hard time wrapping my head around the Facebook/Twitter phenomenon. Does anyone really have a thousand “friends”? Do I really care when someone, even a close friend, drinks a coffee, eats a bagel, or scratches their armpits? Not really…
And yet I have been curious. I poked around MySpace back when it was “the new thing”, and created a Facebook account (which I’ve since forgotten) when they still had only a couple million subscribers. I’ve never really touched Twitter, though- I think mostly because the short-form, incredibly “noisy” form of communication to be difficult to imagine being useful. I haven’t really changed my opinion but, as with MySpace and Facebook before, I feel I should give the latest social network “it” thing a chance. Maybe “microblogging” can live alongside my “macroblogging”?
Something for rich Pen and Paper gamers…
I remember back in the foggy vastness of the past how valuable having a decent gaming surface was when playing Dungeons and Dragons. My friend Chris and I eventually hacked…
The big question: iPhone or Blackberry
Recently I’ve started to feel the limitations of my long-term cellphone, a Motorola Razr. I’ve had it now for five years, which means it is “ancient” by cell phone standards. Yet it has served me very well for most purposes. However, a couple of years ago I started configuring various server monitors at work to send me email messages when they ran into trouble. These messages are generally too long for the SMS service provided with my Razr, and my latest round of updates has resulted in these messages becoming largely unreadable: the emails are too long and complex.
And so I begin to consider an upgrade…
CSI Cloverdale: Nutkin is down
Case Number: 20090504.23734.19
CSI ID: 4393 (Adams K)
Case open date: 2009-05-04 14 AM Pacific
Location: Geek house, Cloverdale, B.C.
Victim particulars
- Complexion: black, wearing fur coat
- Gender: indeterminate
- Size: approximately 15 cm excluding 10-12 cm tail
- Weight: less than 250 gm
- Gang membership: Sciurus carolinensis (non-native; see also 1914 Stanley Park transplantation)
- Rigor fixed
- Lividity indeterminate due to affixed fur coat
- Liver temp indeterminate due to absence of test equipment re: recent budget cutbacks