Facebook, Instagram, and Tinder all suffering outages? THE HORROR! Thanks, Snowbama!

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."

Because of this XKCD strip and jbsegal, I just learned about the "say" command for OSX. So, naturally, I had to test it out.

Me: *type type type*
My laptop: "Eat a bag of dicks."
JB: *looks at me* "You're really 12, aren't you ( Read more... )

The Evil Behind the Smiles: Nicholas Kristof, NY Times: "I hope that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will recognize slavery as unfinished business on the foreign policy agenda. The abolitionist cause simply hasn’t been completed as long as 14-year-old girls are being jolted with electric shocks -- right now, as you read this -- to make them smile ( Read more... )

We can send rovers to Mars.
We can photograph the beginnings of the cosmos.
We can manipulate genes.
We can perform intricate surgeries with robots.
Apparently, though, we cannot manage to create a working, trustworthy electronic voting machine.

I'll stick with my paper optiscan ballots, thanks.

Thanks to kathrynt for the link.

My phone is dying. If you've tried calling and have failed to reach me in the last few weeks, this is a likely culprit. Since Verizon has free/reduced-price upgrade plans, I'm planning on getting a new phone soon. I checked out what was available to me under my current plan, read reviews on CNet.com, and narrowed it down to the following models:

• LG ( Read more... )

Yay: This weekend jbsegal installed the 60GB hard drive I received for $WINTER_HOLIDAY two years ago into my poor, creaking Pismo laptop. Suddenly, I have 10x more hard drive! And he and Kiran helped me snag a new-to-me wooden table with four chairs. Thank you, JB and Kiran ( Read more... )