Monthly Archives: August 2006

Morning Thoughts

This is heartwarming. My current contract is getting really insane, and I’d like to bail. The company has gone out-and-out suicidal: stupidity can no longer be an excuse for how completely messed this behavior is, so it must be malice. Unfortunately, I haven’t really heard back from any of the places I’ve gone fishing. The [...]

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Stephen Colbert is teh Shit

Okay, this guy is a genius when it comes to working his fans. He’s got www.colbertnation.com, he’s sicked people on Wikipedia twice, and now he’s got the whole lightsaber duel thing going on. It’s friggin’ awesome to see him milk the power of “the Internets”.

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Shakespeare Re-Told

The BBC America is showing a series called “Shakespeare Re-Told”. I like it a lot — God Bless TiVo, because it’s usually on in the middle of night. I saw a modern retelling of “MacBeth” taking place in an upscale restaurant’s kitchen, and now I’m watching “A Midsummer’s Night Dream” taking place in a destination [...]

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Windows is User-Friendly? The Hell…?

When I keep telling people about the wonders of the free operating system, people seem excited about it, but they won’t make the jump because of this impression that somehow Linux is not user-friendly. Now, granted, I spent a lot of quality time with my Linux box when I first got it.  But I was [...]

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Countdown with Kieth Olbermann

I’ve really taken with this show.  It addresses issues deeply, so it’s actually an informative news show — nothing disgusts me more than people saying that they get their news solely form “The Daily Show”.  I like “The Daily Show” (and its spinoff, “The Colbert Report”) — don’t get me wrong.  It’s just that they’re [...]

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