Working for a Living is Unnatural Torture

Is there really any doubt?
Salaried employment interferes with our natural sleep cycles - where’s my goddamned afternoon nap?  It forces us to spend our day among strangers, which naturally induces anxiety among humans.  It forces us to be answerable to a near-stranger, who is quite likely to be stupider, less qualified and, now that I’m […]

How Could I Have Missed This?

Apparently, MC Hawking has been around for several years and nobody told me?  Find him here.

Trying to Keep Up

Nothing stays the same.  Everything changes.  But, you protest, the more things change, the more they stay the same.  Well, sure, but how does that help me to maintain my blogroll?
People moving back and forth, deleting blogs, hiding blogs, renaming blogs, moving to quiblit (my own damned fault, that one), not moving (which is even […]

Plug for a Friend

Any of you who read Bob Harris’s Prisoner of Trebekistan will know what a warm, funny guy he is (and he really is just like that).
Bob has a new book coming out - Who Hates Whom.  I don’t have an advance copy of this one, but it looks like it’s going to be more of […]

Talking Tech

Since I took up building websites about six months ago or so, I’ve had a lot of conversations with programmers.  They tend not to go well:
Me:  Hi.  I have a little problem that I don’t know how to solve.  Please keep in mind that I have no programming knowledge.  Here’s what I want to do…
Programmer:  […]

Damn! Creationists are Everywhere

And I was going to vote for this guy, too.  Yet another politician gets caught trying to make everybody happy and winds up upsetting everybody.
Why, John Tory, why?
Actually, I know why.  If you’re a complete ignoramus on the subject, then “teach the controversy” sounds quite sensible.  Both sides of the story and all that.
Except, in […]

How To Tell If You’re a Geek

You’re running SETI@Home on your computer right now.Seriously, though, you get:

An ultracool screensaver that searches for aliens while you nap on the couch.
The knowledge that you are engaging in a legitimate scientific pursuit while you nap on the couch.
To tell your kids, when they wake you up while napping on the couch, “Quiet, kids, I’m […]