Doug

Doug

Husband & father with youngins; Presbyterian; Will devops for boardgames; Dadjoke Enthusiast; Longtime WordPress user; The failure mode of “clever” is...

The ALCS, Summed Up In A Single Picture

…brought to you by everyone’s favorite pagan moon god, destroyer of worlds and all-around smack-talker, Allah, who has broken his blog silence in order to briefly revel in his beloved Rote Socken.

New Athlon64 Chips, nForce Chipset

Anandtech has posted info on the released (on paper) AMD Athlon64 4000+ and FX-55 CPUs and the announced nForce4 chipset and man, I have to say that I’m drooling. I want an A64 rig so badly, I can almost taste…

Neal Stephenson Responds

A while back, Slashdot solicited questions that they would forward to Neal Stephenson (of Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, Diamond Age, The Baroque Cycle, etc. fame). They’ve posted his responses and, as always seems to be the case with Stephenson, the results…

The Croquet Project

If you are at all interested in human interface design and the possibilities for collaborative work made possible by the Internet, I would highly recommend that you take a look at the Croquet Project. I can’t really do the concept…

And Now For Today’s Daily Dose Of Kerry

It seems the cameras just can’t get enough of this guy! It’s not so much a “Funny, Ha-Ha” as it is a “Funny, Uh-Oh”. What Mary Beth Cahill should be saying right now: “Who let him near a soccer ball…

Weekend Miscellany

Just a few random samplings of various stories I took note of over the weekend. The head of UN peacekeepers in Haiti is blaming John Kerry for much of the current unrest. Wowsers. It seems as if quite a bit…