Category: Rant

  • Terminology: extended rant

    Ok so we have talked a little about terminology in the past, specifically about LCD’s in relation to tech or geek minded people. An LCD is the least common denominator, or the stupidest tech Luddite you can imagine when relating how to do something to someone else. A Mental stenographer helps. Sample conversation An example…

  • The Sameness of Innovation

    In my Podcast found at www.caffination.com i spoke for a short time concerning the problems now facing the Apple Computers design team. When the iPod was first introduced in 2001 it was a major paradigm shift in music. it was as if a new continent previously undiscovered in the musical topology had surfaced. The iPod,…

  • The Slippery Slope of Jurice Prudence

    Perhaps its just me but the older i get the more concerned i become with the state of law in our country. Laws are no longer put in place merely to keep order, and protect citizens but they are also put into place to placate corporations, ie the Mickey Mouse Copyright saga. Or they can…

  • Freedom of the press

    ::Grain of Salt needed to proceed:: Watch for steam release valves and gastric obstructions. Ok now here is a subject which may ruffle some feathers and may incite this blog to get banned but i feel i ned to say something about it. The american agenda, or a social consciousness in the united states often…

  • Myspace, or is it?

    Concerning the ever prevalent Myspace complaints circling I would not hesitate to say at this point that they are very well founded. What company when purchased for 891 some odd million dollars has one sole data center. susceptible to a hoard of power, flood and damage problems. One single point of failure. This is simply…

  • Day 2 of the opression

    Ok putting aside all of the comments from yesterday I have a couple more nuggets of wisdom to throw at people on this the second day in excess of 100 degrees F. First off I’m tired of the official temperature being at the airfield, there is a breeze there, they said 98 degrees yesterday, while…

  • Dark Dank and Dreary

    Yet another day passes in the seemingly endless void which is my office. The newest climate control debacle is that some genius of a student left the windows open on our floor all weekend. this caused the rain to flood in in various parts which in turn caused the humidity to cover everything. there is…