On the drive to work this morning, I thought about some of those old horror stories in which the narrator is describing the eerie events up to and including their own death, and I had to laugh, thinking that the story was a neat concept, but the technology just hadn't caught up with it.  Throughout the story you probably started to ask yourself why ( Read more... )

I just heard about the new Nexus One phone.

I think I'll wait until the Nexus Six comes out.*  Of course I sometimes wonder if I'm not already a Nexus Six.  I've never taken a Voight-Kampff Test, so how can I be sure?

I do like their motto:

"I want more life, fucker." (TM)

*Nexus Six, new and improved with four-year lifespan!

I came in early to the information age, at the tail-end of the old era, where a pocket calculator cost $100 and didn't do much more than add, subtract and multiply.  My first computer experience was with an Apple II, and just about the only thing anyone could do with it was to hit the "Apple" key to make the cursor drop through a hole.  At the time ( Read more... )