I’ve always hated telemarketing calls. The Government of Canada is supposedly implementing a “Do Not Call” registry. I say supposedly because turtles move faster, and the proposed registry has holes – for instance political parties are exempted. Curious that. Dr. Michael Geist has decided to do something about this. He set up a web site, […]
Monthly archives: March 2008
Windows
You know I knew I was pissed off at Windows. Heck, that’s why I bought a Mac. But I’d forgotten how pissed of I really was. I decided to clean out my disk pile – I was thinking of installing Windows 98 under Virtual Box, and I knew that my Windows 98 CDs were in […]
Drugs are sooooo much fun
What it works out to is that if I take enough of my pain killers to handle the pain, I’m pretty dopey. If I don’t, can’t think straight as I hurt to much. So it’s a lose/lose proposition. I just came back in from a 5 minute walk with the dog, and I was ready […]
Cult of Mac – Cult of IPod
Everyone has heard of Bit Torrent. Everyone has heard the RIAA and the MPAA fulminating against it. And then there’s No Starch Press. They’ve released on The Pirate Bay, a Bit Torrent site, two books by Leander Kahney, an editor at Wired Magazine called “Cult of Mac” and “Cult of IPod.” Since I have both […]
Decisions
I’m not doing FilKONtario this year. I’ve been thinking about this a lot, and it’s just not practical. There’s just too much walking at the hotel, and not enough places where I can sit comfortably. Heather suggested that I just park myself in the main function space, but the chairs in there aren’t comfortable. If […]
Ahh, you gotta love radiation
Or rather you’ve gotta love Mythbusters. Tonight they are submitting Cockroaches to high levels of radiation to find out if the myth about cockroaches surviving a nuclear war are real. They did tests at: 0 Rads – control group 1,000 Rads 10,000 Rads 100,000 Rads They used two other species of insects, flour beetles, and […]
Writer’s Block: Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Don’t celebrate it, not Irish. Now I know a lot of people who are, and will celebrate it, and I suspect there will be a lot of hangovers tomorrow…
Hot times in Ohio
For those of you in Ohio, you should check out this story: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/ohio-voting-machines-declared It’s about voting machine problems. Isn’t it wonderful – I’m in Ontario, found this link to this story on Groklaw, followed it to The Inquirer (which is in England), and it’s about voting machines in Ohio, the home of OVFF! Thank god […]
Pain, pain, pain
Last Wednesday I saw the pain doctor. Result is I’m now on Ocycontin, which I am told is known as hillbilly heroin. It is helping a bit, provided that I don’t do anything. The doctor also perscribed me break through pills. Percoset. Now I was on Percoset when I had my wrist surgery, and at […]
Gary Gygax
Gary Gygax. Now there’s a name I have not heard for a long time. Got home from work today, and Heather told me he’d passed away. For those few who don’t know, Gary was one of the people responsible for the massive popularity of Role Playing Games – in fact his gaming group invented the […]