The webpage looks different. The webpage looks a lot different. I’m trying something out live to see if it works. We’ll be back to geekdom heaven in a few days, once I’m sure I’ve got all the bugs in the style sheets and other sundry files worked out. Truth to tell, I do like theContinue reading “On the Current Layout”
On the Real President Bush
I had to share this: Bush is in fact fidgety, cold and snappish in private. He yells at those who dare give him bad news and is therefore not surprisingly surrounded by an echo chamber of terrified sycophants. He is slow to comprehend concepts that don’t emerge from his gut. He is uncomprehending of theContinue reading “On the Real President Bush”
On a PlayStation 2 Problem
I have a slim-line PlayStation 2. The original model of the PlayStation 2, released in 2000, was supplanted with a newer, smaller, slimmer model in the fall of 2004, and I traded my old, clunky, big system in toward the small system when it released. Now, Sony has issued a recall on the slim PS2Continue reading “On a PlayStation 2 Problem”
More on the Coldplay Concert
As I mentioned yesterday, last night I attended the Coldplay concert here in Raleigh at Alltel Pavillion. I’ve been a fan of Coldplay for five years at least, and this was the first time I’d had the opportunity to see them live. Let’s get a few observations out of the way first. The crowd wasContinue reading “More on the Coldplay Concert”
On the Concert
Coldplay played Raleigh tonight. I was there. 🙂 Great concert. There were a few flubs along the way–“The Scientist” needed to be restarted–but Coldplay put on a magnificent show. The opening act, Rilo Kiley, didn’t impress at all. I’m tired. Will write more tomorrow.
On President Bush and "Failure"
It’s fairly well-known that doing an internet search on the term “miserable failure” turns up President Bush’s on-line official White House biography. You can now shorten that search to just “failure”. Why be surprised?
On Grand Theft Auto: The Less Naughty Version
I am asked almost daily, “When’s the cleaned-up version of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas coming out?” Next week, as it turns out. It seems that we’re the only retailer still carrying the Adults-Only rated version of the game. Our competitors all pulled it, sometimes hypocritically, based on the merchandise they sell. But for thoseContinue reading “On Grand Theft Auto: The Less Naughty Version”
On Evaluating President Bush
It’s hard to look at what’s happening in Louisiana and not think that we’ve seen a massive failure of the federal, state, and local governments in responding to the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. It’s hard to understand how someone like the Secretary of Homeland Security can be so blithely clueless about people stranded inContinue reading “On Evaluating President Bush”
On the Literary Perfect Dark
When Microsoft’s XBox 360 launches this fall, the expectation is that the system’s must-have game will be Perfect Dark Zero, the prequel to the best-selling first-person shooter Perfect Dark on the Nintendo 64. But wait! some fanboys are saying. Isn’t there already a prequel to Perfect Dark? Wasn’t it called GoldenEye, since Perfect Dark wasContinue reading “On the Literary Perfect Dark”
On Saturn's Rings
New pictures from the Cassini mission show how truly strange Saturn’s rings are. The rings as seen in pictures taken by the Voyager mission twenty-five years ago have changed somewhat–features have moved or disappeared–and new structures in the rings have been noted. Go! Look! Marvel!