A Still Verdictless LifeA work-in-progress, both life and blog. By Jeff Nichols.(Untitled)- December 31, 2002 Can't end the year on a note as depressing as the previous post. So with six hours to go till 2003 circa EST, Happy New Year! In the immortal words of Blue Oyster Cult from the 70's, 2003 will be a good year to get "...OD'd on life, OD'd on life itself...". Life itself ought'a be enough.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/2002/12/31.html#a477 (Untitled)- December 31, 2002 Perhaps this will be my last DMCA-bashing post of the year. Or perhaps this post will force me, my ISP and Radio Userland (the weblog's host company) to shut down. This article from Wired is as depressing and frightening as anything I've seen all year. To me, it's every bit as frightening as watching the towers fall on 9-11-01. The article describes how Dow Chemical took offense to a site making fun of them, and used the DMCA to force the site to shut down. Because of a stupid move on the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/2002/12/31.html#a476 (Untitled)- December 30, 2002 Robber attacks woman with Playstation. A burglar hits a woman over the head with a Playstation console after she catches him trying to steal from her home. BBC News Technology UK Edition I guess this is a good example of excessive video game violence. That's progress, though. In my day you couldn't lift the refrigerator-sized versions of Pacman or Galaga.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/2002/12/30.html#a475 (Untitled)- December 30, 2002 Spent a great afternoon yesterday at Grayson Lake State Park, 30 minutes from the KY house. We hiked three miles, got some nice pictures (should post a picture later). It was an amazingly perfect day, with sunny skies and temperatures in the mid-50s. Felt like March, not late December. The big surprise - they've built a championship golf course in the park. It looks great - and it looks tough. Now if they can only get the money to finish it. As we walked we rousted up four wild turkeys. It's...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/2002/12/30.html#a474 (Untitled)- December 28, 2002 The SQ (strange quotient) around here is getting pretty high. Eastern KY has always been a slightly off-center place (with slightly off-center people), but lately things are weirder than usual. First there's the big Powerball lottery winner. Granted, he's from WV, but the winning ticket was bought only 20 miles away from our home in KY. Like it or not, there's no difference between the folks on one side of the river versus the other. It's odd that such a big prize would be won here in...http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/2002/12/28.html#a473 (Untitled)- December 28, 2002 Three Movie Reviews Being the holidays, and being an unrepentent couch potato during them, we've watched more than a few movies this week. Here are some opinions on them. We Were Soldiers - I thought that another Vietnam war movie would be redundant, but it's not. It's a powerful movie. Mel Gibson plays a Patton-esque Army colonel, without Patton's character flaws. He's a leader any man would follow and die for, and many do. This is the story of the US Army's first major encounter with the.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/2002/12/28.html#a472 (Untitled)- December 28, 2002 California town sells online for $1.78m. A "fixer-upper" town fetches more than twice its reserve on the online auction site eBay after strong Christmas bidding. BBC News Technology UK Edition What can I say I think someone got a real bargain. In our part of Socal, tract homes a mere 10 feet apart are going for $1M. For your $1M you get granite countertops and bare dirt on your 5000 square foot lot ( one eighth acre). These folks got 82 acres and some riverfront property, not to mention their.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/2002/12/28.html#a471 (Untitled)- December 28, 2002 Life is getting back to normal, and I think that's good. First, we're no longer guests in someone else's home. That's always tough for me. While it's nice being treated politely and even graciously, there's nothing like the freedom you feel when you're inside your own domicile. Freedom to eat, sleep, veg out, listen to irritating music - whatever. Second, I'm getting used to the new computing tools. Moving to the Mac continues to be a journey. I haven't switched, I'm switching. It may take all..http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/2002/12/28.html#a470 (Untitled)- December 27, 2002 Very light posting this week - busy having a life instead of writing about it. Traveled on 12-24 and 12-25; had logical Christmas on 12-26. Plus, have spent much time futzing around with computers and new software toys. Have launched a new weblog, Pervasive Computing News. It's strictly for work, sort of an online magazine authored by yours truly. It's still under development, but is up and running as beta. ASVL will become strictly for personalfamilylife notes.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/2002/12/27.html#a469 (Untitled)- December 23, 2002 Grand Junction Colorado must be one of the Christmas light capitals of the US. It's a small town, but fully half of the residents seem to decorate their homes with extravagant light displays. I've seen variations of this all over America, but Grand Junction goes all out.http://radio.weblogs.com/0110445/2002/12/23.html#a467 |