I'm gradually getting back into the electronics hobby. Resurrected most of my engineering software and made some nice discoveries. See, Win7 won't run 16 bit programs, so that wiped out most of my DOS programs and I thought I'd have to use one of my old DOS machines to do any work with them. But I found a Dosbox front end that makes it so easy,  D- ( Read more... )

The news of Anne McCaffrey's passing has had effect on PernMUSH. Kyrola's player paged mine Tuesday night about 6PM about it.  The news had just come out and I went Googling for more news, only three sources found at that time but the first one had confirmation from Anne's publisher ( Read more... )

1) The new radio scanner works fine, but...  there's so much to listen to. The local fire and police have been super busy and there's a lot of tragedy involved. Like a woman waking to find her husband isn't breathing one morning, or that a man has fallen 40 feet off his roof, or the most recent tragedy; a 21 year old man found dead alongside the ( Read more... )

http://epubread.com then http://bit.ly/XuwJY

Enjoying -

• The Size of it All by Les Johnson
• Terraforming Ganymede with Robert A. Heinlein - Part 1 by Gregory Benford
• The Amazon's Right Breast by Tom Kratford
• Brains Aflame: Out on the Frontier of ( Read more... )

From this fark.com article  The 30 harshest author on author insults in history.

I read -

27. Harold Bloom on J.K. Rowling (2000)

“How to read ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have ( Read more... )

Theatrically it comes to an end July 15 in the USA. It doesn't sadden me as much as the literary end did, since the movie makers always have to piss on the book's structure and stir it about, slopping it onto the cutting room floor. I suppose they think they're improving the flavour by putting their so called creative stamp on it. Just by watching ( Read more... )

As we currently understand things, human brain development in children depends on genetics and experience (nature and nurture). As we reach adulthood, most of the uniqueness that is us has been fixed in place. Since each of us is thereby unique, thought reading or transmission isn't feasible via direct stimulus (since we have unique mappings of the ( Read more... )

Just saw this fark.com link to space battle wallpapers -


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