TorgoX's JournalTorgoX's use Perl JournalZERO HITS TO MY LIVE FILK CYBERCAST- August 18, 2006 Dear Log, The interface at use.perl.org is stuck in 1998 and counting. Counting slowly backwards. So I'm ANKLING this crab shack and moving... here! Please adjust your RSS readers andor doomsday devices accordingly.http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30681?from=rss Ebook fun- August 18, 2006 Dear Log, After fuming for years about the annoyingly high price and low availability of ebooks, I finally took a stab at buying one of these. It just got here yesterday and it's really snazzy. It's about the size of a "quality paperback" (and is just a bit heavier, what with batteries and all), it cost about $150 (which I'm justifying as cheaper than two thick tech books), and seems merrily indestructible. Backlit LCD, etc. And it's just now hitting me that its "little" 64MB memory card...http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30680?from=rss Steam heat- August 17, 2006 Dear Log, Every sentence of this article is a pullquote.http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30678?from=rss Murderface Murderface Murderface Murderface- August 16, 2006 Dear Log, Death Clock Metalocalypse (&945;' &183; &946;') is like H. R. Giger meets Dr. Katz.http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30651?from=rss H&339;&339;&339;uuuurrr- August 16, 2006 Dear Log, I'll call this a cri de c&339;ur because that sounds a bit classier than "text-mediated freakout".http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30650?from=rss &966;&955;&959;&947;&953;&963;&964;&959;&957;!- August 11, 2006 Dear Log, «... So if you still like to pause to appreciate the action of phlogiston &8623; when you strike a match, you may well be okay with current events. So many, God help us, evidently are.»--William Gibson See also: two apes holding up a modern Cavendish-variety banana -- the most absurdly hybridized plant in ethnobotanical history -- and attributing its varietal features to the providence of Jezeus, when he created the world from nothing, six thousand years ago. What will...http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30607?from=rss DOMUM- August 11, 2006 Dear Log, «Dear Israel and Palestine, You're so annoying! Why don't you stop fighting and go home Oh wait. Sorry.»--Eugene Mirman, "Letters to Nouns", on En Garde, Society!http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30590?from=rss &20010;&21328;- August 10, 2006 Dear Log, «The lesson I take from this tawdry week in Hollywood is the same one I realized after seeing Britney Spears give her interview to Matt Lauer: No celebrity should appear in public. Ever. Their only contact with the us should be through carefully written statements that are vetted and luminous images that are CGIed. Press releases can edited to sound sane and intelligent; images can be Photoshopped to remove the crows-feet and swastikas.»--Mrs. Betty Bowers, Landover...http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30581?from=rss A roadmap for lasting hummus in the Middle East- August 7, 2006 Dear Log, As the latest war around-and-about Israel shimmies and shakes along, I am driven back to the question of what went wrong. This is a complex question in general; but in the specific case of the languages of the parties involved in this war, I have a theory. My theory is that the Middle East's horrible horrible writing systems induce chronic crankiness. But it was not always so! Both Arabic and Hebrew once used the same script, a script which is clearly superior to either of...http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30552?from=rss Doom doom doom doom DOOM DOOM- August 7, 2006 Dear Log, «"My question is: When do you think the human race conclusively lost control over its own destiny I'd like everyone here to answer, if you don't mind." April produced a handheld notepad. "Please just start anywhere in the circle-here at my left, will do." Martha Madronich stood up, reluctantly. "Well, I hate to go first, but in answer to your question, um, Professor, I figured we lost it for good sometime during the State of Emergency." She sat down. Ed Dunnebecke stood up....http://use.perl.org/~TorgoX/journal/30546?from=rss |