Below is a letter that I sent to the three state Senators representing my county in response to this bill, which just passed the NC House. It was quite literally written by Time-Warner Cable with only minor grammatical changes made by the State House and associated subcommittees. Our state is already 41st in broadband penetration and has seven of ( Read more... )

Back in September, I bought a new computer ( Read more... )

I'm watching Ken Burns' "The National Parks" on PBS right now.
I see that wild beauty and I feel this emptiness, this dull ache to step away from society and experience wilderness myself.  I've been chained to this place too long and I need to see the mountains again.

OK, so you know how "Watchmen" is coming out on Friday? And how it's based on what is usually agreed to be the best comic book of all time? And how every comic book nerd on the planet has his Ambush Bug boxer shorts in a twist, hoping that it'll be good but secretly worried that it's going to suck like every other adaptation of an Alan Moore book ( Read more... )

Please feel free to skip this. I'm rambling because I'm angry at how quickly some people want to send America to Hell in a handbasket.Today, we stand on the rain-slick precipice of darkness. No one can argue that. The argument comes when we try to step back ( Read more... )

I'm almost done with my Halloween costume. And when I say "I," I mean "my mom and dad have done most of the work for me because I can't think clearly most of the time." I was sitting downstairs, just staring at some of the pieces I was going to make my brass goggles out of for at least five minutes. I didn't do anything because I was ( Read more... )

I have not felt well for the past...two weeks? Yeah, probably about two weeks ( Read more... )

I'm in a bit of a funk today. Said funk could have one of many causes:

• The DSL continues to not work reliably, despite numerous calls to AT&T. If I felt better, we'd have switched to Time Warner for cable Internet long ago.
  
• The DSL guy was out here yesterday and this morning, the phones did not ring. We could make and receive calls fine, but ( Read more... )

So I go to CBS.com to watch one of the TV shows I missed this past Monday because you can't expect a nerd like me to miss the three hours of "Heroes" premiere stuff on NBC, can you? I'm thinking "Oh, it's only two days later. The video should be up by now." And what to my befuddled eyes should appear?

( This! )

I have an extremely strong desire to make my own steampunk Nerf pistol, buy some leather, make a holster for it, and slowly build myself a gentleman adventurer costume ( Read more... )