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New York Times article on a device that scares me. The device, which is about the size of a throw pillow but as firm as a seat cushion, is shaped like a person about to give a hug, with two arms reaching up and out from a small torso. To send a hug, the grandchild . . . → Read More: Hugging by remote…the end is near… Computers suck. Software sucks. Nuff said about web-services and the omnipresent “grid.” In more mundane news, people say a lot of stuff at coffee shops that I didn’t need to know about. Wow. Your butt, you say? Who knew? Not me, not until you sat and loudly discussed it over there. And, finally, I did . . . → Read More: Serious TMI. Sadly, our pet-sitter just went from “super cool” to “a little creepy.” She sent a card with pictures of our pets (looking very content, I must say). The pictures were taken inside our home, while we were on vacation. The concept of a thank you card to a customer is a good one. One must . . . → Read More: Creepy Last night at karate class, I helped a 15 year old girl really understand how to cause pain with a wrist lock. We were practicing the “locking hawk” technique, and she just wasn’t getting it. Locking Hawk goes something like this: * Assailant is swinging a club (beer bottle, ash tray, something small and hard) . . . → Read More: Of wrist locks and education. Good: Halo 2. Early in the first mission, two big “hunter” class aliens bust through a door. The sergeant who’s been leading my platoon of NPC marines yells “Hunters! Step back men, let the Master Chief show you how it’s done!” Excuse me, but the way it’s done is that NPCs take bullets for the . . . → Read More: Good vs. Bad Enough griping about politics for the moment. I’m going to gripe about other stuff. . . . → Read More: A magical and happy journey to the store The Rhode Island branch of DwanCo is pleased to announce that we have doubled our beer production capacity. With the addition of a new primary fermentation vessel, as well as the addition of a state of the art three-piece airlock, we can now have 10 gallons of beer in process at a time. DwanCo, RI . . . → Read More: Dwan brewing at FULL STRENGTH CNN reports that Iraq today declared a 60 day state of emergency. Quick on the uptake, these Iraqis. Any talk at this point about the election being rigged is just bitter carping and backbiting. In the real world, the game is played with all available tools, and the republicans know that far, far better than the democrats. Talk about a fixed election, deliberately skewed electronic voting machines, and the like is silly whining . . . → Read More: I want to believe |
