Aug 2015

Aug 3

HOW TO: Get Rid of Flash

So Flash is dead now? (Well, mostly dead, at least, given that Google and Mozilla are dropping support.) Amazing!

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Aug 4

Long Term Project

It's been five months give or take since I decided to move my blog to a new domain and to migrate all my entries to Jekyll.

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Aug 4

Moore's Law

I've always been skeptical of many of the claims that people who are pro-Singularity have made regarding Moore's Law.

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Aug 7

Random Welsh Word of the Day

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Aug 10

Triangulation

Chasing "undecided" voters is a lot like chasing unicorns. But even if they do truly exist, they are such a statiscally vanishingly tiny percentage of the electorate that it's berserk to pursue them.

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Aug 12

Advancing in a Different Direction

Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction.

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Aug 14

Trawling through Old Notebooks

I have finally started transcribing journal entries and poems that I have scrawled into random notebooks over the years. Some of these entries have required lots of editing and some of these entries I can't date precisely, but there's something that appeals to the hoarder in me to pile all of these scraps into a single heap.

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Aug 16

Eff the Ineffable

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

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Aug 17

Tangents of Ice and Fire

So I've been having tooth pain for a couple of weeks now, and I was worried I had a cavity, so I went to see the dentist.

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Aug 17

On the Etymology of Fail

So I'm still converting over old blog posts to Jekyll and I've been tagging them, and it occurred to me that using the tag #epic fail is probably anachronistic, at least in older entries.

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Aug 20

Déjà vu, jamais vu, presque vu

For a few precarious seconds, the chaplain tingled with a weird, occult sensation of having experienced the identical situation before in some prior time or existence. He endeavored to trap and nourish the impression in order to predict, and perhaps even control, what incident would occur next, but the afflatus melted away unproductively, as he had known beforehand it would. Déjā vu. The subtle, recurring confusion between illusion and reality that was characteristic of paramnesia fascinated the chaplain, and he knew a number of things about it. He knew, for example, that it was called paramnesia, and he was interested as well in such corollary optical phenomena as jamais vu, never seen, and presque vu, almost seen. There were terrifying, sudden moments when objects, concepts and even people that the chaplain had lived with almost all his life inexplicably took on an unfamiliar and irregular aspect that he had never seen before and which made them seem totally strange: jamais vu. And there were other moments when he almost saw absolute truth in brilliant flashes of clarity that almost came to him: presque vu.

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Aug 24

Fleetwookie Mac

I can't explain this, but autocorrect keeps wanting to change "Fleetwood" to "Fleetwookie".

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Aug 25

Petulance

The petulance of some libertarian arguments makes me wonder how much of the attitude is derived from childhood experience where the child declaimed "You can't make me!" and their parents made them do whatever anyway, resulting in perpetual indignation that only waxed into adulthood.

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Aug 25

Code Blue on TV

Watched "Fear the Walking Dead" last night on DVR and was highly entertained. But the one thing that really stuck in my mind was that the doc stopped trying to defib a guy who coded after two shocks and the last shock was only at 250 J instead of 360 J. 😀 #‎nerdalert

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Aug 29

Bittersweet Memories before I Met You

That moment lying in the dark except for the light from my iPad, listening to that song.

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Aug 31

Migrations

So I've been slowly going through all my blog posts lately, converting them to YAML+Markdown to use with Jekyll

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