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This is one example why I lead slightly right (libertarian). The lack of logic and reason in this clip is outstanding.
Three years ago (wow, THREE YEARS AGO!), I was living and traveling to and from California and DC for work. The six hour flights were killer; children crying, turbulence, cramped seats. I needed an MP3 player and a good pair of headphones. Enter Apple, with its 4th generation, black-and-white, 40G iPod and […]
Note: Personal Rant
The past week or two have been horrendous. For the past couple months, the enjoyment from work has declined. In the past few weeks, it has decelerated to the point that I, and my team, are unproductive, as our client will not give us work. I am starting to look […]
Props to ALo for telling me about The Hood Internet, an artist self-described as Italian pop / J-POP / K-POP (not that I know what those mean), that create some amazing mashups.
Mashups, a type of remix, have gained notoriety in the past few years, starting with the remixes of Jay-Z’s Black Album, which released an […]
For the most part, our soldiers don’t want publicity. They are not trying to become celebrities. Our men and women, fighting for freedom (rightly or wrongly), are much more modest.
The best example of this is the World War II Memorial. This memorial celebrates, in the words of Tom Brokaw, “The Greatest Generation.” […]
The BBC has a short, interesting article in it today, about the status of W.
Imagine an administration has given more than $15bn towards treating HIV/Aids, mainly in Africa; that has hinted it might boycott the Beijing Olympics if China doesn’t intervene to stop Burmese monks from getting slaughtered; that has tried - and failed - […]
One of my friends from Lockheed has a friend from high school who is is on Beauty and the Geek. Nice. But, there are three software engineers! What the Hell? Why do you have to give us a bad name? Seriously. Damn it. That’s harsh. 30% of […]
I just read an article from Wired where a “virtual investment bank” recently collapsed in the computer simulation world of Second Life. For those that don’t know, Second Life (SL) is a computer game played on the Internet, were you create a character (or avatar) that can do anything. Literally, anything. Eat, […]
are not games. At this years DefCon (a hacker’s conference), NBC inserted a covert media journalist to capture hacker’s admitting to crimes and to out a federal undercover agent attending the conference. It is well known that federal/intelligence agents attend DefCon yearly to learn the latest and greatest intrusion techniques. They even […]
Today was strange. It’s hot. It’s 92 degrees at 7p. When you walk outside, it is as if you walked into a sauna just as they start adding water over the rocks.
The odd part was, it was quiet. It freaked me out. Traffic was still there, but no honking. […]
