As you read this, there are probably millions of nerds playing Guitar Hero somewhere in the world. Conversely, there is not a single guitarist playing Sysadmin Hero anywhere in the universe. Musicians are cooler than nerds.
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It's On Now
Car bomb explodes in southeastern Turkey – Yahoo! News ANKARA, Turkey – A car bomb exploded in the Kurdish-dominated southeastern city of Diyarbakir on Thursday, wounding around 30 people, including military personnel, news reports said. […] Authorities blamed the blast on Kurdish rebels. Police were searching for two suspected Kurdish militants. The attack — which […]
Quote Of The Day
For a man on film, there is no greater moment than the instant when he suddenly gives up everything he knows or thought he ever wanted and starts whipping ass for love or principle. — director Kurt Wimmer, on his film Equilibrium
Places I Visited In 2007
Berlin Frankfurt (three times) Zurich Salt Lake City Istanbul Goreme
Many Worlds
Stranger than fiction: parallel universes beguile science – INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos Is the universe — correction: “our” universe — no more than a speck of cosmic dust amid an infinite number of parallel worlds? A staple of mind-bending science fiction, the possibility of multiple universes has long intrigued hard-nosed physicists, mathematicians and cosmologists […]
God, I'm Dumb
My hands are shaking. I went to Starbucks to do some programming tonight. On the way home, I stopped at the grocery store to pick up some milk and other refinements. Normal evening. As I came up to the corner of the major cross streets near my house, I saw smoke coming off of a […]
Zach Braff Quotes
Zach Braff Quotes “I pick the songs for my movies by typing a random word – say “bee” – and then by typing the word “pitchfork” along with it and then whatever pitchfork album review Google brings up I then look at the album, select the fourth song off of it, and then try to […]
God, I Need A Copy Of Ableton Live
Really, really bad. Mom was gonna get it for me for my last birthday, but it didn’t end up working out. I can’t afford $499 for a full copy (and I need a full copy, not the Lite version, which won’t do what I need it to do). I need it for live Red State […]
50 Most Loathsome Of 2007
The BEAST: America’s Best Fiend Lovely. Number 9 is “You”. You believe in freedom of speech, until someone says something that offends you. You suddenly give a damn about border integrity, because the automated voice system at your pharmacy asked you to press 9 for Spanish. You cling to every scrap of bullshit you can […]
Douchebags Gone Wild
Power to the Poachers Dude, it’s, like, your fuckin’ duty to sneak onto one of the four ski resorts in America that don’t allow snowboarding and, like, fuckin’, like, snowboard there. ‘Cause the Man is stickin’ it to you by keeping you off four of the thousands of ski runs located on this continent. As […]