Must watch
Posted on May 29th, 2009 by uruloki
I don’t care how good you are with money, you need to go watch Un-broke right now. The worse you are, the more you need to see this.
R.I.P. Lee
Posted on April 8th, 2009 by uruloki
Lee from Right Thinking apparently passed away a couple of days ago. His was one of the first blogs that I ever started reading, and even with the new guys writing over there it’s been in my RSS reader from day one.
R.I.P. Lee. You made me think a lot about things I used to take for granted, and I don’t see your shoes being filled anytime soon.
Just. Stop. Clicking!
Posted on March 3rd, 2009 by uruloki
Reading has always been my favorite activity to do. The internet has simply increased the amount of stuff I get to read (often to the detriment of things like updating the blog). One of my problem sites is Wikipedia simply because I can go for hours clicking random links from the inside of articles that I looked up to get a “quick” answer. A new one for me is TVTropes.org, which has sucked a ton of time from me today based on an off-hand link to the Xanatos Gambit. That led to all kinds of other Xanatos things and reading about where they appear in popular media. Unfortunately, I can’t stop clicking. 
edit: Fork, I just spent 20 minutes reading about That One Boss and The Computer is a Cheating Bastard. I was trying to close the window.
Saturday morning revenge
Posted on March 2nd, 2009 by uruloki
We’re laying here in bed watching TV and an ad for the Hannah Montana movie comes on. Otter goes, “Wow, that looks like it would be pretty good.” As I’m laughing my ass off, she says, “It’s not going to be very funny when I make you take me this weekend…” I’m not laughing anymore.
IO and IFO
Posted on February 25th, 2009 by uruloki
I talk a whole bunch about information operations. Don’t read unless you want to sleep.
[Read more →]Nerdgasm
Posted on February 13th, 2009 by uruloki
As much as I’ve scoffed at Mac zealots, I’m going to admit that the Touch is a pretty cool piece of hardware.
Now I want the hovercar
Posted on January 22nd, 2009 by uruloki
An interesting paper from the University of California-Berkeley has some nifty conclusions:
“Disruptive lane changing,” they add, “might also be reduced in some cases by sorting drivers (and vehicle classes) across lanes according to their preferred travel speeds; or in other cases by inducing a more even distribution of flows across lanes.”
I’m enough of a nerd that it immediately called to mind Code Three by Rick Raphael as well as some other scifi driving experiences that dealt with variable speed lanes.
It will never be his fault
Posted on January 21st, 2009 by uruloki
Via /., I found this nifty examination of the whitehouse.gov site
Description. You want to read about the code structure of the new whitehouse.gov website on this historic Inauguration Day of the 44th president of the USA. The site is built on ASP.NET.
What follows is a lot of good discussion about how the site is built, how it could be done better, and even some nifty easter eggs in the form of links hidden in the JavaScript. The really fun part was the last line:
Finally, remember that the administration and President Obama were not the ones who wrote the code here.
Seriously. Either a) you’re not nerdy enough to notice all the stuff that was detailed or b) you’re nerdy enough to know that the Big Cheese never writes that stuff. Why do we need to start making excuses about who is doing what already?
So I have a new boss
Posted on January 20th, 2009 by uruloki
Who cares? All of these people are going on about what a historic day it is but it’s not in the way they think it is. Today is the orderly hand-over of power from one guy* to another for the 43rd time in our history, which is miles better than anyone else on the planet. Everything else is incidental. All the other aspects that people are having religious ecstasies over is just packaging. We have yet to see what is in the (well-wrapped) package, but I have a feeling more than a few people will be disappointed in what they got.
*I’ll use guy on the day the first woman gets elected too.
I’m fat and insulted!
Posted on January 14th, 2009 by uruloki
Or at least this lady is:
When a 5-foot, 275-pound woman found out she had a tumor on her spine, she was told by her local hospital to go the zoo to have a MRI because a regular MRI machine could not hold her weight, MyFOXKC.com reported.
If you read the story though, she wasn’t told by the hospital to do that. After her fatoverly generous ass couldn’t fit in the regular MRI, one of the guys who was trying to help suggested an alternative. If she got some kind of recommendation from a doctor that said go use an animal MRI bed, she might have a beef but she doesn’t here.
I was going to laugh the whole thing off until I read the last line of the story:
“They should have machines that fit most everybody,” she said.
Guess what, they do!