I’ve just finished loading our CD collection onto the new hard drive. The grand total: eight hundred thirty-six albums. 41 gigabytes of data. I could listen to it for a month straight, twenty-four hours a day, and still never hear the same track twice. Some of them were already loaded onto my desktop system, but …
Maybe you heard about the recent flap over a lawsuit that Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers filed against God last week? Apparently God just answered.
A “DVD series dedicated to model trains crush fetishists“? Seriously folks, how many people get off on seeing model trains getting crushed, even if it’s by good-looking semi-nude women? On second thought, don’t answer that. I don’t really want to know.
And I thought the fake cell-phone antennas were ridiculous.
I know that everything grows bigger in Texas, but this is ridiculous. Or maybe the artist is making a comment about a particular former governor of the state, with the subject…
Joel Spolsky, of Joel on Software fame, has been in the computer industry for a long time. He’s also a smart fellow who knows how to write, and he has just posted an insightful article on where it looks to him like the computer industry is headed. If you’re in charge of your software company’s …
Despite my opinion of the iPhone, I think he got the better end of the deal.
Computers can do a lot — some form of computer runs practically every piece of technology nowadays, up to and including your toaster. But they can’t quite do everything that Hollywood thinks they can. (Call me gullible, but I was able to suspend my disbelief for most of those, enough to enjoy the movies. Except …
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I can’t tell whether this is true or someone’s idea of a joke at Reuters. If it’s true, maybe they should put shrines to Akash Bhairab in our airports, instead of continually adding more human security people.
It seems that religion always stands in the way of making money. Unless, of course, you’re a televangelist.