I may never grow to understand how Democrats think, or not think. And I will never, in this election cycle, understand how Senator Obama’s charisma alone has carried him to where he is now. It’s no surprise, really, just incomprehensible. If your stereotypical Republican thinks with his wallet, your stereotypical Democrat thinks, or at least… Continue reading this entry
In any other written word’s realm, the warning that a piece is long and meant to be so is unnecessary. Among us bloggers, it’s only polite to do so. Be warned: this post is long, and it isn’t just about Sharkwater either. Today is Earth Day (Wikipedia entry). While 2007 may have been the year… Continue reading this entry
The mark of truly great fiction of any genre is the way a reader can take more than what the author intended to give: it becomes a measure of a reader’s gestalt more than that of the author’s. The tragedy is that science fiction, in many ways, has become the second-class citizen of the literary… Continue reading this entry
It’s become conventional wisdom that the power of words lay in the parties that define them: some words have become taboo; some have lost meaning and others have gained new definitions. It’s a curious thing, this aspect of linguistics. If words are the symbols for concepts, and language is the gestalt of the concepts a… Continue reading this entry
I post here, for my posterity and that of my handful of readers, the words that have marked Barack Obama’s doom as a presidential candidate: You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced… Continue reading this entry
One of my clients told me about an email they received from Technorati. This is about a security flaw in versions prior to 2.5. I have kept her running on a legacy 2.0.x branch because of some custom queries in the blogrolls that would totally break if it were merely upgraded. I posted a topic… Continue reading this entry
I confess: I like to double click at different words in an article to mark where my eyes are going next. It happens so frequent and so quickly that my friends who’ve seen me do it call it a from of ADD. While their amateur diagnosis might be a applicable to some, it does not… Continue reading this entry
When a valued friend of mine from years ago told me that I will never be the same after I work a particular job, I believed him. The fundamentals of our identities are fixed harder than what most jobs can change about us, but every job that we do, every step that we take in… Continue reading this entry