The health care reform bill that passed the House of Representatives last night has taken a lot of fire, largely over things unrelated to the actual policy it enacts. Now that it’s passed, the papers are doing legitimate policy analysis … Continue reading
I got a challenge from my friend Kim to solve a programming problem they give new hire candidates. Basically, the problem is to build something that takes a string of Morse code and returns all possible translations for it. I … Continue reading
Dear Rep. Altmire, I am deeply disappointed in your vote on health care reform tonight. If there was ever a reason to have a Democrat in office in your district, it was this vote. At this point, I see no … Continue reading
Digging through the library’s graphic novel shelves, I came across two well regarded Batman stories I’d never gotten around to reading: The Killing Joke and The Long Halloween, both of which were cited as inspirations to the film The Dark … Continue reading
Code comment of the day: // for better or worse, if we have a main image, but no homepage icon, then // set the homepage icon to point to the main image …. and pray!
Minority opinion time. Mulan is a really good movie. You know, the Disney one set in China about the girl who pretends to be a boy to keep her disabled father from having to be killed or dishonored when he … Continue reading
Been thinking more about my utter lack of motivation to write lately, and it hit me that I haven’t been entirely honest with myself. I mean, I’m a lazy ass. That’s just truth. That’s just not all of it. There’s … Continue reading
Sue me for the pun later. First, let me tell you about Lensman. I’ve been on this run of serial fiction lately, picking up collections of stuff that originally came out in Astounding Science Fiction or The Magazine of Science … Continue reading
Light month due to the Olympics. In fact, everything on this list I watched on Sunday night, so they got in just under the wire. Fletch Thanks to Community, I’ve had a hankering to go back and check out old … Continue reading
