Remember the furor a month or two ago when it came to the national attention that the United States government was conducting analysis of phone records? How the claim was that they weren’t using the contents of our phone conversations and SMS messaging, merely looking at the metadata these records could provide? One of the…
To say I’ve enjoyed the Wool1 saga by Hugh Howey is an understatement. It’s probably the best long-arc dystopian fiction I’ve ever read. For a kid coming of age in Reagan’s America, I had nightmares of how living in fallout shelters might work. The numbers of generations needed to outlive the half life of nuclear…
Doing my weekly tour of WriteIIsConfig FAILED Google search results I came across something in the Microsoft KnowledgeBase with this heading: You receive error code 0x80071a90 during Standalone or Configuration Manager Integration setup of MBAM 2.0. <DanHudson>WWWHHHHAAAAAAT?!</DanHudson>
Being held down by the man…kitty.
Is it the case that the Yankees and Red Sox play every Sunday night or does ESPN show reruns of past games when they don’t? Because these two teams are on every time I try to watch Sunday night baseball and frankly wouldn’t mind if the ball field opened up and swallowed both teams into…
In which Directioners take on my parents’ younger siblings’ generation’s band, The Who. Read more at: http://www.avclub.com/articles/one-direction-fans-bravely-vanquish-some-old-band,101691/
A couple of days ago I linked to a Tumblr site mashing up Peanuts strips and Smiths lyrics. Of course, I found it via Mefi originally. In that thread someone jokingly riffed that Mary Worth should be paired with Alan Ginsberg’s Howl. Which cortex thoughtfully threw together here: http://www.joshmillard.com/2013/08/15/mary-worths-howl/. Which is yet another reason why…
What has two thumbs and breaks all the builds all morning? This guy! :p
This is the thing that fell off a UPS truck this morning and got wedged under my car and nearly forced me into the retaining wall on I 80. Thanks Brown.
Mashing up Smiths lyrics with bits of Peanuts cartoons can be effective. See for yourself at http://thischarmingcharlie.tumblr.com/.