Power is hard to get (2011/07/18)
Someone on Usenet made a partial list of reasons that various power technologies were unsuitable. I have cleaned it up.
[read more...]This may be the best of all possible worlds, but not the most awesome. (2011/07/16)
Our world: A Victorian lady would rarely be seen outdoors without her parasol.
[read more...]What an exciteable boy (2011/07/15)
I’m pretty exciteable. I will drop everything because I suddenly realized I could make a hobbit hole in Minecraft. Gone are my rigidly square stone buildings; now I have a wooden doorway in the side of a dirt hill, with a little glowy window a few squares over. It looks lovely. And because this is new to me I got all excited about it. I get excited about everything, though. When my kitty is cute, I’m excited about that. When food is delicious (which it very often is), I’m excited about that. I had to run around telling people when I finally comprehended the relationship between RGB and CMY color spaces.
[read more...]Problems with PostgreSQL 8, and PHP 5.2, on Mac OS X (2011/07/14)
For future reference:
[read more...]I believe in ESPs (2011/07/13)
So, there’s a category of business which I am by default not much inclined to like, which is businesses which do pretty much nothing that isn’t focused on sending email. You might call such businesses “spammers”. But there’s a subset of these businesses which, I am now forced to grudgingly admit, reduce the amount of spam I get.
[read more...]RYGCBM color space. (2011/07/12)
Okay, so. Light lets you assemble colors from R/G/B. Ink uses C/M/Y. So, for instance, R+G light = yellow.
[read more...]Just for my own reference... (2011/07/10)
Long ago, I got sick of silly backgrounds for WoW characters. I decided to treat it not as a thing I disliked… but as a challenge. Reposted here since I don’t have easy access to it elsewhere.
[read more...]Why RIFT is not a WoW clone. (2011/07/01)
This is partially a response to a forum poster on the RIFT forums asking whether someone could write an explanation of how RIFT is different from WoW without using the word “rifts”. To some extent, I think that’s unfair; after all, the rifts are a significant difference for me. But okay, let’s see.
[read more...]More thoughts about books: How expectation affects reading (2011/06/22)
I have recently been re-reading the Ethshar books, by Lawrence Watt-Evans. I was first introduced to these many many years ago, when someone lent me a copy of The Misenchanted Sword, telling me it was a “very funny” book. I read it, enjoyed it, and kept an eye out for more books by the same author.
[read more...]I am... not surprised. (2011/06/22)
So, a bit of background. A while back, I found a series of books… somewhere. I don’t even remember. It’s a trilogy of books, the first being Starrigger, by John DeChancie. (The other two are Paradox Alley and Red Limit Freeway.)
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