It really, really is. I glanced back at the place -- it was like rubbernecking at a car accident, I couldn't not do it -- and my God, I can really see how viscerally horrible Twitter is now that I'm out of there, what it does to people. I feel like I just barely dodged losing a hand in a piece of industrial machinery. I'm damn near literally ( Read more... )

I've finally realized that Twitter was designed by a cabal of sinister alien superintelligences trying to come up with the best possible way to generate hatred and mistrust, ultimately leading to global thermonuclear war so they can move in afterwards and steal all our Hello Kitty merchandise without a fight. Absurd, you say? Just look at the facts ( Read more... )

2011, huh? Well, a year with a name like that -- seriously, the only more cyberpunk year than 2011 will be 2019 and possibly 2017 -- had just better bring some really futuristic stuff. Like, I dunno, self-driving cars. Or discovering Earth-sized planets around other suns. Or the bad guys' doomsday weapon program being crippled by a weaponized ( Read more... )

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Merry Christmas to you and yours!

This is a few days late, but who cares!

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Every year I promise myself I'll get my taxes done early, and every year I actually do them on the night of April 14. This year is no exception.

( Then I complain about it on the Internet. )

No doubt you've seen the news about layoffs at LiveJournal bouncing around your friends list already. I would not say panic is called for (in these situations you should hold off on panicking until the CEO does an interview telling the media that everything's just fine and going according to plan, which means the company has about two weeks to live ( Read more... )

We win at democracy!Anyway, while watching the election coverage I did a bit of Star Castle work. I hacked together enough input system to detect and handle keypresses and releases, attached it to the shape class, and now I have a little ship I can fly around the screen. This really is trivial, you know? Tomorrow I'll either clean up the existing ( Read more... )

Man, it's been a peculiar day and the polls haven't even closed yet. There was a fire in a dumpster near my workplace, which led to a power cable coming down, which led to general collapse of the network infrastructure. I was told not to come in until noon since the power wasn't even back up yet, so I was able to cruise in and vote around 11 AM at ( Read more... )

This notice is up a little late here on my LJ, but the page was indeed updated last night and here it is. I think I got better at drawing that planet on this page ( Read more... )