I was listening to commercial radio earlier today – a rather unusual occurrence, I assure you – and “Nothing Else Matters” by Metallica came piping through my tinny, muffled but otherwise adequate car audio system. It brought back memories of sitting in my college dorm room and trying to learn how to fingerpick the opening […]
I slept pretty darn good last night. Perhaps not long enough, but the sleep I got was deep. And, importantly, all at once. I tend to be a “middle-of-the-night” insomniac (really, that’s an actual type, acronymized as MOTN), falling asleep early and then waking up a couple hours later ready to hit the night life.
I’ve recently been re-ripping my entire CD collection to FLAC. It’s been kind of a pain in the ass, but I will be glad to have everything in a lossless format. It also untethers me from keeping my music collection in iTunes, which is kinda nice. I plan to jailbreak my iTouch and install vlc4iphone
It’s a sad day. Another Joss Whedon show is canceled. And while it’s not surprising, considering Fox put it in time out during November sweeps, it sure is upsetting. There are a slough of commenters on various blogs saying things like, “At least they are going to air the whole second season.” Yes, there is
Hulu, the really nifty Flash-based online media site, is considering charging for content starting in 2010. The company hasn’t disclosed details yet about when it’ll start charging or what type(s) of content it’ll charge for, but it’s clear that charging of some kind is going to happen. Hulu is, in one sense, basically a cable
From the notebooks of Heinlein’s Time Enough for Love: Do not confuse “duty” with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die.
I just finished watching the first two seasons of the FX situation comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and I have to say it’s absolutely fantastic. Quirky and irreverent, it’s what you’d taste if you took the banter of Ed, the setting of Cheers, the pointlessness of Seinfeld, the offensiveness of The Family Guy, and
Note: This is a cross-post of a review I posted at Goodreads.com I picked this book up as part of a bargain deal at B&N on a bit of a whim. It’s been awhile since I’ve sat down and read a book of essays, and I wanted to see what was up with the modern
Some dude who has way too much time on his hands says he has “scientifically proven” that vampires cannot exist. Legend has it that vampires feed on human blood and once bitten a person turns into a vampire and starts feasting on the blood of others. Efthimiou’s debunking logic: On Jan 1, 1600, the human
