Category Archives: fluff and fun

Voluntary Meme: My Deadly “Sins” Revealed

I always tell people who tell me that I’m going to hell for being decidedly skeptical about myths from pre-scientific times that a) I’ve read the Bible in its entirety three times, and studied world religions and Church history enough to feel 99% certain the myths are simply myths (and that 1% of doubt is […]

Very Presidential McCain “Aware of the Internet”

Just kill me. From the Telegraph:
Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, has admitted that he never uses email and that his staff has to show him websites because he is only just “learning to get online myself”.
When asked if he went online himself, the Arizona senator responded: “They go on for […]

Strut Your Etymo-Lexico Stuff with a Mystudiyo Vocab Quiz

Just doinking around with Mystudiyo. They say they’ll never make me pay for this when they leave beta, which is cool - but I always wonder what will happen to this sort of work if the company goes out of business. Is all my labor lost?
That being said, I love the ease of use. [UPDATE: […]

Mac Users: Have a Few Gigs of HD on Me (and Monolingual)

Just spreading the love to my fellow Mac users by sharing Monolingual, a free open source program that saved me 4Gb of hard drive by removing the hundreds of languages localized on all my software, and by stripping the PowerPC files from my Intel MacBook.  (If you have Adobe Creative Suite, you’ll easily save 2 […]

Noodling in Kowloon

Standing on a corner
in Hong Kong -
It ain’t so good to be alone
in Hong Kong.
–Screaming Jay Hawkins, “Hong Kong” (psst…do yourself a favor and click the little icon for a classic Screaming Jay number on Youtube, and a Wikipedia link, thanks to the very cool Apture tool)

Just a quickie to show the local flavor of […]