“Legendary steampunk computer ‘should be built’ – programmer”
Something else to file in the “if only I had money to burn” category. I’d dearly love to see Ada Lovelace’s programs run on the machine they were written for.
Archive of entries posted on October 2010
“Funny Courtroom Quotations”
On the lighter side… everyone has moments where their mouths run faster than their brains, but these quotes show that some of the funniest happen in a courtroom.
“Earth’s first all Klingon opera debuts”
I really don’t know what to make of this, except to bet that there were far more geeks in the audience than opera fans: Schonfeld said he has invited the people of Klingon to see the show during its three day run in the 100-seat Zeebelt theatre in The Hague or a later run in …
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Update on The Big Move
We’re mostly moved in now. As usual after a move, we can’t find anything… we labeled all the boxes, but we’re not sure where some of the boxes themselves ended up in all the confusion. I insisted on moving all our computer equipment myself, so I knew where all that stuff was, and the office …
“Smell like a Swiss Army Knife”
Um… WTF?
“All CO2-spewing kit now in existence is OK for the planet”
My 1996 Corolla is apparently okay. I just need to keep running it for the next fifteen years. 😉
“F*** Me, Ray Bradbury”
(Very NSFW, due solely to repeated F-bombs in the chorus.) GoddessJ sent me a link to this video, with the comment “someone who truly appreciates SF.” Apparently so. (There was a picture on the blog she discovered this on, of Ray Bradbury watching it. Apparently he got quite a kick out of it. As well …
I Hate Moving, Redux
I’ve said it before: I hate moving. But with any luck, I won’t be saying it again. 🙂 Our experiment at renting out our old place ended a few months ago. Some of you know the details; for everyone else, I’ll just say it was a minor disaster, and it took more than a month …
“The Mystery Spot”
If I ever get out California-way, I’d like to visit The Mystery Spot, the site of a “gravitational anomaly.” It’s a set of optical illusions, as explained here, but apparently it’s amazing even if you know exactly what’s going on. For someone like me, it sounds like a really good time.
“‘Is this science, or literature?'”
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you probably know my stance on global warming. Or rather, my former stance: I wasn’t precisely a skeptic, but I wasn’t convinced, because the evidence that was being put forth smelled fishier than a tuna trawler. As it turns out, my doubts were well-founded, but wrong. …