Blog of Doom

Well, it’s been an interesting week or two, for me at least.
A tree in front of our house gave up the ghost in a recent thunder/wind storm. We had some really high winds with this storm, and when I came home for lunch, half of this tree was sitting in my driveway, having been blown [...]

Am I starting to have “faith” because I’m intellectually lazy? Do I want to shuffle off responsibility for things on to some remote god that I can blame for things? It sure might take the pressure off me if there was a god. Things happen. They have nothing to do with me (or are not [...]

Here’s something about me that has never changed.
I like to watch traffic. At work I look out of my window and I can see one of our major highways. One of my favorite things is to look out of that window and watch the cars going by in the distance.
I like watching airplanes do [...]

This past week has been very interesting, and not in a good way either.
First, last Monday I was out of commission with the flu. I still feel sick, but well enough to work, so I’m at work typing this out on my lunch break. I’ll post it tonight after I get home. This was one [...]

We had a minor break from the unbelievably hot summer last week. On Wednesday night last week, the obligatory thunderstorms came through, leaving much cooler temperatures behind them. We went from the high 90s (F) to the high 70s (F) overnight, waking to a much nicer day on Thursday.
While we were waiting for the bus [...]

Just thought I’d share. I read these web comics religiously.
Order of the Stick
PVP
Alpha Shade
Casey and Andy
All good stuff, IMHO.

Well, I’ve been incommunicado for a week now. Why? Runescape, or as I like to call it, Runecrack. This is a low budget (i.e. free) online Massively Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Game. I decided to give it a try to see what it was all about. The gameplay is alright at best. It isn’t the greatest. [...]

Have you noticed that everything involving people always seems to have an inner circle syndrome?
For example, there are people who drink coffee. Instant, drip, whatever. But, they get their coffee from the grocery store. They get Folgers or Maxwell House in the big cans and use it, and it tastes just fine. But, then there [...]

Ok, this is just sad. Today I get my usual raft of spam (which Apple Mail diverts to the Spam folder toot sweet, thank you very much). One of them, however, stood out from the others. It didn’t have a catchy sounding or even wildly pornographic sounding subject line.
No. This one stood out because it [...]

The Shrinkwrapification of Patented Goods.:
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ACRA, an association of cartridge remanufacturers, sued Lexmark to block this anti-consumer use of patent law. EFF filed an amicus brief on their behalf before the Ninth Circuit. Unfortunately, the Ninth Circuit this week ruled in favor of Lexmark, agreeing that the “single use only” restriction
contained in the “box-wrap license” on [...]