Chris Cameron, this one's especially for you -- for those of you that missed it, the NY Times is reporting on a new creationist museum. It's full of dioramas of people and dinosaurs together; it's like a paleontologist/anthropologist's worst nightmare in physical form! By the way, apparently chameleons change color to "talk to" one and another ( Read more... )

( Waking up with an alarm clock )

So this past week The Daily Show has had an amazing update schedule. Usually TV shows on iTunes are supposed to show up the day after they air on broadcast TV, but unfortunately this isn't always true. In the past The Daily Show has been updated anywhere from the promised time to several days behind schedule. The TV show Stargate (both of them) had ( Read more... )

For those not in the know, I just got back from Hamburg, Germany -- where I did lots of fun things on the weekends when not at work: I walked all around Hamburg, ate at tasty restaurants, and visited Berlin, all while managing to avoid the giant 50 meter bug eating Germans ( Read more... )

I got back Monday from a fun-filled week at NAMM, where I looked at much music equipment and listened to lots of demos.

You can jump straight to the photos, or read about my trip below.

( My Trip )

So at the end of December, the SciFi channel played a SeaQuest DSV marathon, which I conveniently recorded with my EyeTV. I was watching several episodes yesterday, and I noticed on thing in particular in an episode titled "Sympathy For the Deep." In this episode, people on a peace colony go insane. Now this isn't really anything out of the ( Read more... )

Some photos of my new ride...

( Audi A3 )

So here's what I'm voting on Tuesday's propositions. They're holding an election, and the money has been spent already, so I might as well vote -- not that I like the fact that we're wasting all of this extra money voting on issues that could be deferred to future ballots without undue harm ( Read more... )

So Chinese music is now available on the iTunes music store as of this past week. I write about this not as some sort of blatant advertisement for Apple, but rather the fact that music from another nationality is available for purchase in the US store. For those of you that don't know, music licensing is a very complex issue - there are different ( Read more... )

Two journals is hard, because sometimes I'm not sure which one to post in. I should resolve this dilemma at some point ( Read more... )