Homage to Icarus

I’ve fin­ished read­ing How to Lose Your Altruism How to Win Friends and Influence People, and the review is up. Also upgraded to Wordpress 2.7, although since I’m using my own cus­tom theme the changes will be all on the back­end.
I attempted to install OpenSolaris 2008.11 on my Macbook, which failed pretty spec­tac­u­larly. The problem […]

I’ve updated the blog theme, and I’m just enough of a pre­ten­tious bas­tard to talk about it.
Two years ago, I took a phở­to­graph of the “back forty” behind my apart­ment build­ing. The build­ing itself was stuck at the edge of civ­i­liza­tion, at the end of a small cul-de-sac hang­ing off a street which divided the pseudo-suburb […]

And hope­fully the last one, as it appears floated images break the LJ theme I’m using.

Some ran­dom thoughts to com­mem­o­rate the blog retitling/redesign:
Primitivism is Bullshit
It may be inescapable at this point, all chances for decent evo­lu­tion hav­ing been squan­dered on jet-into-building porn, but going back to pil­ing mud is bull­shit, I don’t care how egal­i­tar­ian the mud-piling com­mune is. This thought, wrung dry, is the inspi­ra­tion for the reti­tling. The […]

So I splurged on a new UPS Saturday, an APC Back-UPS RS 1500 — hope­fully it’ll work, it’s been charg­ing so-far, and hope­fully the con­troller soft­ware works under Ubuntu. I have an UPS already, but it’s under­pow­ered for my sys­tem. So when the guy next door turns on his (fire-code vio­lat­ing) microwave, it flux­u­ates the power just […]