In the computer industry, one way of explaining the progressive nature of things (the treadmill) is to use the term “Moore’s Law”. It isn’t a law, exactly. More an excuse to keep on spending. And for some, like me, the law has a corollary. I call it the “Recycle Principle”.
posted in technology | Comments Off on Out with the slow | 284 words
Without admitting that most of my knowledge of geopolitic comes from the various fictional novels I’ve read over the year, let me recall one such book: The Fifth Horseman, by Collins and Lapierre. Forget the storyline, as it was predictable, and focus on the villain. A certain Gaddafi. For all I knew, he was a fictional character, albeit larger than life. Today, real life surpassed the invented, and Gaddafi was killed.
posted in history, politics | Comments Off on Fictional or real, it all ends the same way | 260 words
Less than four hours ago, the government made an announcement that broke with tradition. It made sense. I’m still trying to recover.
posted in politics | Comments Off on New boats, ships, whatever… | 279 words
Just because the phone company invented monopoly (not the game), it doesn’t mean that their business model is robust. Case in point. There’s a new iPhone coming into the house. Maybe.
posted in humour | Comments Off on Chasing phantom phone numbers | 276 words
Here’s a plan. Extend the human life span to 150 years. It might happen. Drugs. The question that sticks up like the proverbial mole in the hole is then, obviously, who would want to live like they’re eighty for another seventy years?
posted in economy | Comments Off on Live long and prosper | 290 words
The other roads aren’t any longer. Especially when the original road isn’t, any longer. Let me explain.
posted in travel | Comments Off on Roundabout routing | 290 words
Too early to be certain, but I may have to start building that boat I’ve always wanted.
posted in humour | Comments Off on Trapped with other rain-addled shoppers | 285 words
Friday night: giggle time at my house. Ron James is on, doing what he does so well. Not exactly sarcasm, but he does know how to make the words come out in exactly the right order. Where else do you find a “real life” application for that stupid math question about two trains heading toward one another? Just sayin’…
posted in economy | Comments Off on Occupy your local Wall Street | 283 words
Maybe my mindset is wrong. While reading the newspaper (online), the ad that caught my attention was for job seekers. I’m not among their number (at least, I hope not), but out of curiosity I decided to pretend that I needed my daily bread. Let’s see what I could do.
posted in humour | Comments Off on Abbreviated job search | 297 words
I managed to grab some free GIS data this evening, along with some open source software to manipulate the bits and bytes. It doesn’t really matter that I have NO idea what to do with this stuff. Think of it as a new toy. Maybe I’ll learn something useful.
posted in politics | Comments Off on Free stuff that requires assemby | 256 words
