fighting the lack of good ideas
I’ve noticed that most technical forums, from user groups to mailing lists, slashdot to stackoverflow, all tend liberal. I want to know why there seems to be a paucity of conservatives in these settings. I want to know why the libertarians that show tend towards the radical fringe of the party. With the size of…
Without giving any [important] plot points away, here goes my review of Righteous Kill, which I saw last night with a buddy of mine. Righteous Kill is only the third film the two have made together, and the first time they have played together. In the Godfather Part II, De Niro played a younger Vito…
Starting Friday, gas stations around the Triangle started spiking their prices. They raised them because hurricane Ike might disrupt future gasoline production. The cost of the gas they have in the ground is totally unaffected by whatever may or may not happen with this hurricane. But folks made runs on gas stations fearing prices would…
I emailed the Rush Limbaugh show Friday, and proffered the following: What if John McCain picked Sarah Palin because he’s planning to retire before his term is up, and this is a masterful plan to pull the biggest political coup d’etat, a la femme? If McCain/Palin get elected and McCain retires/resigns, Republicans will have the…
I was watching the Dick Van Dyke show on TV Land when my aunt called asking me to turn on CNN and tell her what was going on. I saw the second plane hit the World Trade Center on live TV. And I had probably seen or heard both planes earlier in the morning, because…
[This is the transcript of what I planned to say (but didn’t) at my aunt‘s funeral] How many of you only knew Cindy? Go ahead, raise your hands. Good. Ok – you all know me as “Mike”. Put your hands down. The rest of you know me as Warren. Either way, I’m her nephew. Cindy…
Apparently, the CERN Large Hadron Collider will be turned on soon. That’s cool, because way back when I graduated highschool, I worked as an intern directly manufacturing some components that went into the prototype, and might even be used in the real thing. Now some genius in Europe has filed a lawsuit, claiming that the…