Literal Barrage

I'm experimenting with allowing for custom stylesheets in Elbee Elgee, so don't be alarmed by the current style. It's still the same back-end code with a nice ode to the superlative Tarski thrown in for good measure. I'll likely head back to the blue style in a couple of days, but I would [...]

A few small compuer-related things have popped up over the last few days and I thought I'd take a second or two to jot down my observations for the benefit of all you fellow Intertron users out there.

Apple's recently-released 10.4.8 update to Mac OS X added a nifty "zoom using scroll wheel feature, allowing users [...]

I think that the restaurant at which my coworkers and I eat our traditional weekly Chinese Tuesday recently changed fortune cookie suppliers, as their "fortunes" are now no longer anything of the kind. Instead of predictive fortunes, we routinely find pseudo-Confucian wisdom printed on our paper tape. However, this shift has yielded some [...]

I'm basically sold on the concept of buying a Wii as of this moment, which makes the news that Nintendo will be selling Commodore 64 titles on their Virtual Console service just icing on the cake. It may be taking the whole emulation thing a wee bit too far, though. I mean, what's [...]

If you acquire Toribash, there is a very good chance that you will lose sleep. You have been warned.
At heart, Toribash is a turn-based physics-intensive ragdoll simulator, which might not sound too interesting until you realize that you've been given the keys to a whole series of devastating fighting game moves that put Mortal Kombat [...]

Album Title: Straight Outta Lynwood
Artist: "Weird Al" Yankovic
Year: 2006
I went out and snagged a copy of Weird Al's latest album yesterday and, after giving it a few listens, I have to say that it's one of his better albums, although by no means his best. I think it's actually a bit more of an [...]

I can't speak in detail about it, but yesterday offered me some clarity and insight into current goings-on in my life. I completely whiffed on an important step in pursuit of an opportunity about which I already had a great deal of ambivalence and so, like Gideon in Judges 7, it's all on God [...]