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Predictions for 2009
2008 is over, and it's been quite a year. There are plenty of metaphors to go around. Some refer to the Black Swans (which couldn't possibly exist). Another author writes about the tipping point. I like to think of the present as our collective Wile E. Coyote moment. The usual method of predicting the future is trends analysis. I took some flak last year for saying that trends do change, a...
Fuck Christmas, we aren't having it this year.
For the last 10 years or so we (my wife and I) have been advocating for a change in how our respective families celebrate the Christmas holiday. This year, with the help of circumstance, we decided to cease observation of the Christmas holiday (and all other Catholic holidays) and make our annual family-oriented holiday Thanksgiving. What has been most surprising about this is the consistent re...
A Mini-Guide To Surviving the Holidays
In the last few weeks of every year, most of the western world will be celebrating holidays. It is one of the few times if not the only time of year that family and friends get together and share happiness, camaraderie, hope and best wishes for the new year and reflection on the past year. It can also be a time of stress, anxiety, loss of your job and financial ruin. Below is a brief guide for ...
Isopod Attack Formations Engage
When I get into work, I usually put on a CD. Strictly to annoy the broads in the typing pool. I pipe the music through a speaker I set up one night that vents directly into their cess pit of typing and gossip. The place is a sick mess. Today it was Enslaved's newest record, RUUN. I blasted it as loud as the speakers could go and all the chicks in the typing pool got all hot and bothered because...
An Appeal To Moderate Islam
It is not the responsibility of non-Muslims to look past barbaric evil attack after barbaric evil attack and recognize that moderate Islam still exists. It is the responsibility of moderate Islam to rein in and destroy the madmen emanating from your societies. Are you too toothless or unwilling to do that?
The Making of a Mash/Lauter Tun
This is a rewrite of this diary. People were encouraging towards making it a story. Citations will be provided for images since that jew bastard who runs the place hasn't enabled image tags yet. Making beer is pretty easy, and if you've been following The Spoils of Wort, you probably have the basics down. Making beer, up to this point, has been: Buy a can of extract (or four) Steep the s...
QNX 6.4 > 6.3
I had been running QNX 6.3 on my trusty old 1.4 GHz Pentium III system with two gigs of memory for the last couple years and it was alright. Never quite fast enough despite decent hardware (P3 chips were 2x as fast as P4s clock per clock, don't whine otherwise) and limited hardware support, I was looking forward to the upgrade because, finally, after four years I might get a better-optimized sy...
GOD IS GOOD
The fridge in the kitchen nearest to me at my place of work has a bunch of those dictionary fridge magnets on it. Over the last few months the face of the fridge has been the subject of a fascinating battle between the forces of good and evil.
Two Essays on Objectivist Ethics
Two essays from Ayn Rand's The Virtue of Selfishness are reprinted in Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal as the ethical basis for her moral defense of capitalism. "Man's Rights" and "The Nature of Government" are pedestrian defenses of a natural law conception of man's natural rights and of a concept of government that mixes enumerated powers and individual rights with the Weberian concept of the...
Beefeater's holocaust
A recent episode of Boston Legal featured a courtroom drama where a farmer filed suit in order to be able to test all of her herd for BSE1/vCJD, the agent which causes "mad cow" disease (otherwise known a bovine spongioform encephalopathy) in cows and variant Creutzfeld-Jacob disease in unfortunate beefeaters. In TV land, the farmer won and was allowed to test her herd and advertise the results...