Homage to Icarus

I dis­cov­ered a bit from Clay Shirky, talk­ing about how tele­vi­sion was the way post-griminess indus­trial soci­ety chose to cope with free time. Included was the bit that enough time is wasted watch­ing tele­vi­sion to pro­duce all of Wikipedia 2000 times over.

Something to say…
$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}‘|sort –rn|head
184 svn
165 ls
101 cd
96 ldapsearch
95 ssh
62 vim
25 ping
24 grep
23 sudo
20 rm

Thank you to the Sci-Fi Channel (and/or who­ever ends up own­ing them) for get­ting it and let­ting me down­load BSG off your web­site in a flash thing.
Also, Scott Ian is the moth­er­fuckin’ man, though I think Baltar is very clearly sup­posed to be a Factured Fairlytales ver­sion of Jesus (the beard was the giv­away, I thought). […]

I’m cur­rently suf­fer­ing from putting my insom­nia to good use (so far I’ve installed Tracks), so I’ll take the time to post some ran­dom thoughts:

I was bit­ten by April Fools twice today. The sec­ond time because I was too exhausted to remem­ber that it was April Fools.
A life with­out hope is not wasted or a pity […]

Aside from the laugh­able idea of “mil­i­tantly” sup­port­ing any­thing with a blog post, Miguel sim­ply noted that these peo­ple exist, have writ­ten a book, and will be doing the speaking-tour-thing near him. Does he agree with the con­tents? (shakes eight-ball) Signs point to Yes.
Is he free to do so? Also yes.
Are you free to ignore him? Still yes.
Does […]