President Obama will address a Joint Session of Congress tonight (Thursday, Sept. 8th) regarding his job stimulus plan. He had originally requested to do so last night (Wednesday, Sept. 7th), but House Speaker John Boehner asked him to change the… Continue Reading
You can’t make this shit up: Richard Stallman thinks that smartphones are “Stalin’s Dream”. But: “There’s a version of Android called Replicant that can run on the HTC Dream phone without proprietary software, except in the U.S. In the U.S.,… Continue Reading
So, if you are a Mac/Objective-C developer, you are probably familiar with the Designated Initializer. The Designated Initializer (“DI”) is, in an Objective-C class, the one initializer in a class that is supposed to do the heavy lifting in initializing… Continue Reading
If you were not a member of the A/V club in school, you can skip this post now. So. Until yesterday, I had the following A/V setup. Our receiver was a Sony STR-DG910. It does video switching, and has 3xHDMI… Continue Reading
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I recently mentioned on Twitter that it was somewhat ironic that Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, which I’d like to read, was only available in “dead tree” editions (and thus not convenient for me). I quickly got back two nearly identical… Continue Reading
My wife envies my ability to decide to go to sleep and then just do it without further ado. But I am here to tell you that this is not a natural ability; it is an acquired skill, and you… Continue Reading
Last night, Rich Brodsky tweeted something I liked: This reminded me of a piece I posted on talk.bizarre back in 1995: Step back and take a look one level bigger. Fly over your city in an airplane and look at… Continue Reading
We got Gilbert in October of 2002. We went down to Animal Friends thinking we’d get a nice dog to be a friend for Becky to play with outside and to do a little bit of light watch duty around… Continue Reading
Each year, as we gather with family at Yuletide with a tree in the house and we exchange gifts and think about togetherness at year end, and about snow and cocoa and sleigh rides and jingle bells and about talking… Continue Reading