I don’t know what to do. Should I buy it? Am I obligated? I cannot in any way compare this to the quandary I faced when The Phantom Menace came out on DVD. In that case my course of action was clear. I didn’t buy it. I will not buy it, and no Jedi mind [...]
Posts Tagged ‘blargh’
Nobody cares about open video and audio
The divide between technical and artistic is never so evident as it is in open source software. Virtually all open source tools of significance are technically oriented. Browsers. Backend website software. Debuggers. The next big debate over opening the web is currently taking place around audio and video. But unlike so many other open web [...]
Blocked
Having some serious writer’s block this week. I doubt I’ll have a chapter ready to go by tomorrow, but maybe I’ll catch some luck this evening.
In Defiance of the First Law of Thermodynamics
The principle of conservation of energy states that within a closed system, mass cannot be created or destroyed. This means that energy or matter can’t spontaneously spring into being. It has to come from somewhere. So why is there so much snot in my nose? Has all the snot in the universe been sucked into [...]
No Farting.
I hate you, LAX. I hate you in the face. The line at security was long. The bathrooms were dirty. Our plane was late. They changed the gate. Our plane was more late. We finally hit the air, which was the best part of the trip. I was seated between two nice non-smelly young women [...]
