I stopped watching X-Files when I got a life, towards the end of high school. As a result, I missed this beautifully cynical and crisply delivered satire of Forrest Gump’s “box of chocolates” monologue. I have remedied this with the help of YouTube. If you haven’t seen it (and even if you have), you should [...]
Archive for July, 2006
A little knowledge
Those of you out there who are budding writers might like to examine Asimov’s Robots and the way that they compare to modern programming.
Heat stroke
You know it’s too hot when I’m blogging about it rather than blogging about the weak whingers blogging about it. The heat is so bad, both in the daytime and at night that climate control has become a delightfully multidimensional problem.
Kids don’t have rights
The only reason this has gotten any mention is because it concerns a hot-button issue. It’s obviously another election year stunt, but there will be very little uproar. Why?
This could get ugly
Not that it isn’t already, of course. I’ve balked at discussing the clusterfuck in the Middle East because, well, it’s terrifying. I stayed up late last night and watched The Daily Show and the Colbert Report in the hope that they would report on it and make me laugh and I’d be able to move [...]