I spent Turkey Day this year out in Moab, UT for a few sweet days of mountain biking. Everything was fantastic: the weather, the people, and the riding.
I was a bit apprehensive at first, not being the best mountain biker in the world, and Moab’s tough reputation pinging around in the back of my [...]
I don’t understand the all the rage about podcasts. As far as I can tell, the selling point of podcasts is this: You get music on your ipod — like you already do — but someone else controls what you listen to and there’s stupid-ass DJ chatter between the tracks. And now Wired has an [...]
In a perhaps not-unsurprising move, the Vatican has rejected intelligent design.
Why unsurprising? Consider that intelligent design is most heavily promoted by Protestant fundamentalists with whom the Vatican has long disagreed with. We see from the article, however, that the Vatican isn’t simply disagreeing just to be annoying. They are taking the view that I’ve argued [...]
This essay by a doctor was posted in the NY Times a while ago, but I still feel compelled to post about it.
Here is one of the funniest things I have read, online or not, fiction or not, ever:
A few years ago, a young woman waited patiently to be seen in our office after [...]
I know that some of y’all out there wonder “what the hell does Alex actually DO????” I mean, I can blab about software this and that until the cows come home, but for some reason, eyes continue to glaze over.
Well this leak came out last week, but I refrained from commenting. Now check this out: [...]
Next time I’m in Pekin, IL, I’m gonna go to the store and get myself a t-shirt.
(This post originally written 01-November-2005)
I remember reading this article a while ago: iPod vs music snobs and being somewhat amused.
Well, now I’m That Guy who just liberated a Music Snob’s entire (23 GB, 4713 songs) library and gave just about nothing in return. Look at all these cool bands whose music I now own:
Badly Drawn Boy
The Beta Band
Bright Eyes
Clap [...]
I’m not normally one to rave about Linux distributions, mostly because I picked one a long time ago (debian) and stuck with it. However, I am pleased to report that I’m now running Ubuntu on my Asus Pundit-R based system and have finally gotten the TV-Out to work thanks to a clue from this guy.
The [...]