January 14, 2010 – 12:22 am
Around the time Toy Story was coming to theaters, a high school art teacher of mine said she couldn’t consider something that was computer animated to be art. I think this opinion stemmed from the misconception that once you learned to use computerized tools to do 2D or 3D animation you could create anything with [...]
February, despite the extra day, sure went quick. At the end of January, I was in San Francisco attending the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies annual Web Conference. Before the conference I was starting to feel sick, but during the conference I somehow got better. Then, a few days upon return to Tucson, I relapsed and [...]
January 11, 2008 – 9:48 pm
I mean that in the best possibly way though. I’ve posted my first substantive diary there this evening. In two short hours my thoughts on skepticism and Kucinich’s recount of the 2008 New Hampshire presidential primary generated 80 comments and 19 people voted to put it on the recommended diary list. That’s a lot of [...]
October 5, 2007 – 12:58 am
The day following the infamous $200 iPhone price drop, my only reason for not getting an iPhone vanished and I found myself driving up Campbell Ave. to the Apple Store to buy one. For anyone who hasn’t bought something recently at an Apple Store, you may be in for a bit of a shock. Apple [...]
April 15, 2007 – 12:12 pm
I’ve started working on a fun “little” hobby project: urlpixie.com. At it’s heart, it’s a tinyurl clone with heaps of JavaScript and AJAX sugar. But I’m hoping I’ll have the time to continue to add features to it, to make it more than just a clone of tinyurl. At the very least, it’ll be a [...]
A few weekends ago I was using my old PowerBook G4 while over at Lauren’s. While packing up my PowerBook to head home, I noticed that the power adapter was abnormally very hot. Looking closer, I noticed that the DC output wire’s insulation was creating a slight burning smell and looked all bubbly. I’m lucky [...]
January 4, 2007 – 6:19 pm
As evidence, a thread from Daily Kos. Brian Nelson’s explanation for how Sen. Barack Obama’s picture got paired with a caption that read “Osama bin Laden” on the front page of Yahoo! News is perfectly reasonable. Yet nearly no one who replies in that thread actually believes him. It’s absurd, and sad.
November 2, 2006 – 11:15 pm
Dust off your winmodems, it’s time to subvert democracy! The phone modems are turned on at 7:00pm on election day allowing the precincts to report totals. This phone communication method is fundamentally stupid. It opens the “crown jewels” (the central database of votes) to outside manipulation by anybody who has that phone number, often NOT [...]
September 12, 2006 – 11:46 am
Last month, my iMac G5 at work started rebooting randomly. (If didn’t have my Energy Saver system preferences set to restart automatically after a power failure, I suspect it would probably be shutting down instead of restarting.) Looking through system.log, I came across this: Aug 29 17:59:26 localhost kernel[0]: AppleSMU — shutdown cause = -110 [...]
September 9, 2006 – 11:12 pm
I have a confession to make. I leave my wireless access point wide open. Anyone can join it. Yes, this goes against the common wisdom that everyone should use WEP to keep people from “stealing” your internet connection. But WEP is trivial to crack, so it only really provides a false sense of security. There’s [...]