I follow a number of tech blogs - enough that I saw no fewer than one hundred posts about the iPad in the last 24 hours ( Read more... )

I found a new project I want to work on. One I really, really want to finish and get to work.

That said, I probably shouldn't take on any new projects before I, you know, finish all the crap that I've been planning for some time.

( Rambles on unfinished projects )

... And TI is reducing employment by 12%. That's 3400 people.

Yeesh.

I haven't had a rambling technology post in a while, so I thought I'd type one out now as I'm finishing lunch.

3D movies - why haven't they caught on? The first documented 3D movie was in 1922 - five years before The Jazz Singer (the first feature length talkie). They've come and gone, even as technology has improved, but they remain as little ( Read more... )

- My new car came with three months of XM radio. It's meant to be a trial period to sucker you into subscribing, and I think it's working. If XM gets around to offering the a la carte pricing they promised when the XM-Sirius merger went through, I might be interested. There's five jazz stations, three classical stations, about fifty college sports ( Read more... )

That's "B" Horror, not /b/ horror. One is an outdated term that now refers to low budget films, and the other is where the internet goes to die.

I saw the greatest robot today on the blogs, which could be the next big thing in home cleaning robots if the design pans out. Climbs walls!This led me to a thought - a few of us had joked in the past ( Read more... )

For those of you unaware, my car is dying. It isn't completely gone yet, and as I only drive about 25 miles a day, it should last me another six to ten months. This means that as fancy new cars have been posted to the various tech websites, I've been paying more attention than usual ( Read more... )

D&D last night was fun, although Jeff and I had to leave early as we're the only two in the group with real jobs. The only hilarity that really ensued involved Corey - he had scheduled a World of Warcraft raid during our D&D game, so he set up a second table nearby where he set up his desktop (we were playing in the band hall, so he had lugged his ( Read more... )