Poking Myself In The Eye

I touched my eyeball this morning! Good heavens that freaking hurts. I was surprised as anyone. How do these things happen? Shouldn't we, of all people, be in charge of what our hands are doing? How many times have I rubbed my eye in the 34 years of my existence?! I would imagine that it is something that I would be the best equipped person on the planet to handle. Rubbing my own eye. It's not

The Case For Games: Revisited

I'm a devoted PC gamer, I enjoy them because they stretch the imagination, immerse you in plot, and transport you to another world. Plus they let you repeatedly make bad decisions and blow up crap with stunning graphics and sound!

As far as I'm concerned games are the natural evolution of entrainment media. Consider:

Books rescued people from the humdrum boredom of their life, and the harsh

John Moves Forward

John Josephson had an interesting ability. He could stop traffic any time, anywhere. All John had to do was decide to get going and all forward progress would get gone.

Now as far as John was concerned the roads were always a bear. He had to leave from his house 58 minutes early just to arrive 30 minutes late to work. If he wanted to be on time he would start out with two hours to kill in

20 Things I Learned From Star Trek

Our mission is to seek out new life and new civilizations in order to make them just like us.
The Federation comes in peace. But if you provoke us we'll light you up like a warp core!
The functionality of any technology is inversely proportional to to it's urgency of need.
There is no crime on Earth, there is also no money. It is a very boring place, which is why we're in space, shooting photon

Lazy Thursday Blues: Caption 30

I used to do these every Thursday. Anyone still here who remembers them? Here are a couple to get you started...

It is strong like the bond between man and lobster...

I don't know how it started but it end with the phrase, "Hold my beer and check this out..."

Links:

Garfield Minus Garfield A bit strange and almost completely useless.

Savage Chickens. Do yourself a favor and check it out...

"My life" - The Game

"Good Morning, Commander Shepard"

"At ease Lieutenant. What's was in this mornings briefing from the council?"

"Today we've got to organize the warehouse and check on the cable supply for the upcoming network clean up. Then later someone needs to sift through the logs on the mail server and see why sendmail is failing to send low memory alerts and CPU spikes to the group e-mail account."

"Did

iMac? Say It's Not So!

So I just got a new work laptop. My old laptop was purchased in 2004 and routed to me in June of 2005. It has been a faithful companion with a simple and stable Windows XP OS. I have kept it clean of temporary files, viruses and any bloat-ware.

In return it has dutifully connected to any and all network devices I have thrown it's way. Email, routers, Interwebing or whatever I needed. But the