On This Day: Feb 12

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Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 26 posts previously published on February 12th

  • 2024
  • 2021
    • 📚 7/2021: Bone Silence by Alastair Reynolds ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee 1/6 A satisfying end to the Revenger trilogy. Not all questions answered, but those most central to the main adventure are. If the “high seas adventure in space” conceit works for you, it’s a good series. ➡
  • 2020
    • Picard Theory (Probably Wrong) 🖖 Spoilers for episodes two and three of _Picard_ follow, but probably not for anything beyond that, because I'm usually wrong about these things. :) ➡
    • Someone Built a Distraction-Free Cellphone With a Working Old-School Rotary Dial: “Haupt’s creation seems like it was brought to Earth from a parallel dimension where mobile phones took an entirely different evolutionary route, and where technologies like touchscreens never came to fruition.” ➡
    • On This Day: Feb 12 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 12 ➡
  • 2019
    • Bed used in hotel honeymoon suite for 15 years then discarded in a parking lot, rescued by an antiques dealer, and initially believed to be Victorian, turns out to be Henry VII’s marriage bed. ➡
    • Book fifteen of 2019: The Book of Merlyn, by T.H. White. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📚 A curious coda to TOaFK, mostly serving as an argument against humankind’s warlike tendencies. Not critical to finish Arthur’s story, IMHO. ➡
  • 2016
    • Kicking off this long weekend with the latest Bond flick. Doo doo, doo dooooooo… (43/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Turned into a gorgeous day, 48 degrees and snow melting off everywhere, and the sun is even above the hills at 5PM! Are we sure it’s not spring yet? ➡
  • 2010
    • Links for February 3rd through February 12th Sometime between February 3rd and February 12th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Now You Can Facebook Chat Through iChat • How to Create a Google Buzz Desktop App • Deckle Edge in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction • Pepsi Skips Super Bowl TV Advertising for Social Media • Confused by the 'Lost' Premiere? Never Fear! Damon and Carlton Explain a Few Things About the Start of Season 6 (SPOILERS AHEAD) ➡
  • 2009
    • Good Twitter Marketing is Communication The single most important aspect to marketing successfully on Twitter is having a real person behind the account. Many companies seem to see Twitter as little more than an RSS reader for people who don't grok RSS readers, and that's a rather sad outlook. ➡
    • Links for February 11th through February 12th Sometime between February 11th and February 12th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too! • Darwin Survives as the Fittest • Evolution and Facebook's "25 Random Things About Me" Craze. • Czar Struck: Obama’s Brilliant Pick for Drug Czar • 15 Companies That Might Not Survive 2009 • Surprising Stories Behind 20 Muppet Characters ➡
  • 2007
    • Which Super Villain am I? Which super villain am I? 'You fear the persecution of those that are different or underprivileged so much that you are willing to fight and hurt others for your cause.' ➡
    • Wanted: One Apology from the Seattle PI The PI's public vilification of the crane operator was a slimy, sleazy way to grab eyeballs and sell papers at the expense of his reputation. Trial and conviction should be handled in the courts, not in the headlines. ➡
  • 2004
    • Atom feed now available Seeing as how an Atom-enabled beta of NetNewsWire just hit the 'net, I took a few moments to get an Atom newsfeed up and running for Eclecticism. ➡
    • Biggest breakup of the year I'm talking a breakup of real importance here — one that will be inspiring headlines in all the rags, sending the talk-show hosts into a flurry, and prompting a whole slew of rabid fan sites lamenting the passing of such a long-adored perfect couple. ➡
    • The Grey Album Vocal tracks from Jay-Z's 'The Black Album' + samples from The Beatle's 'The White Album' = Danger Mouse's 'The Grey Album'. ➡
    • Good advice Kids, this is all the shit I had to learn the hard way. Now that I’m retired it’s time to pass it on, so you won’t have to suffer the same indignities I did. ➡
  • 2003
    • Patriot II raising ire Finally, some good movement happening on the polictical front — a very welcome change from last week's ranting and raving. It seems that the recently-leaked 'Patriot II' draft, in addition to getting attention in the blogging world, is also raising eyebrows on Capitol Hill. ➡
    • Recommend me? Actually, I'm not out to be a boyfriend right now — pretty happy staying single for the foreseeable future — but I can think of plenty of times when I wouldn't have minded getting a recommendation on greatboyfriends.com! ➡
    • Awww – how sweet! Just a little 'Wüdi love' from me to my readers, in honor of the coming Valentine's Day. Yeah, even I can get a little mushy from time to time. Who knew? ➡
  • 2002
  • 2001
    • If? What is this if? If I were a lesbian, she would make me go straight! ➡
    • Hannibal I just don't think the script gave much to work with, and I can say that I definitely agree with both Jonathan Demme and Jodi Foster's decisions to pass up on returning to this film. ➡
  • 1994
    • [From Usenet: 2.12.94 0400] I got a shirt a while back only because I thought it was great (person with bird's head mask holding a naked woman upside down by a knife through the foot, says 'Some have to dance, some have to kill' on the back), and someone recently told me it was a Psychic TV shirt. ➡

Recommeowndations

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Our “Movies we think you’ll like” lineup on Amazon Prime tonight included:

Sherlock Holmes
Murder on the Orient Express
Clue
The VelociPastor

and

Movies for Cats – Forest Songbirds

Apparently, the combination of Law and Order SVU, The Fabulous Mrs. Maisel, The Expanse, and Dr. Who (before it was taken off) is enough to convince Amazon that we’re…murder kittens.

Well, okay then.

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Got my copy of the new #StarTrekPicard novel today…but can’t (well, won’t) read it until I’m finished with this year’s #PKDickAward nominees. So many books, and only so much time to read! 📚🖖

On This Day: Feb 11

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Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 27 posts previously published on February 11th

  • 2024
  • 2022
    • 🎥 Eternals Really long. Lots of things happened that involved a lot of fancy glowy effects. ➡
  • 2020
    • Recommeowndations Movies for Cats - Forest Songbirds ➡
    • Got my copy of the new #StarTrekPicard novel today…but can’t (well, won’t) read it until I’m finished with this year’s #PKDickAward nominees. So many books, and only so much time to read! 📚🖖 ➡
    • On This Day: Feb 11 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 11 ➡
  • 2017
    • Chucks of the day (49/53): #pride edition black hightops with rainbow specks, soles, and heel plate. Was quite thrilled to find a pair of these today! #converse #chucks ➡
  • 2016
    • Mmmm…ending the day with a warm drink is nice. (42/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • I will have my chocolate tonight! (Not the whole thing, though.) ➡
    • She’s nekkid! I’m shocked; shocked, I tell you! ➡
  • 2010
    • Seattle Metro Tunnel Beating This is one of the most disturbing local stories I've seen in a long time. A 15-year old girl was beaten on the platform of the Seattle Metro Bus Tunnel, while security guards and witnesses stood around and watched. ➡
  • 2009
  • 2005
    • Ugh. Ick. Bleah. On the bright side, one thing I love about working five blocks from home is that I've got time on my one-hour lunch break to leave work, hit Subway, grab a sandwich, come home, eat, hop into the shower and soak under hot water for about 20 minutes, then get back dressed and head back into work. That's probably about the only thing that made the latter half of the day bearable. ➡
    • Captain’s Blog, Stardate 47751.2 Today's comic from Joy of Tech is a must-see. ➡
    • Washington Post article on Blogging and Jobs About two weeks ago, I spent some time being interviewed by Amy Joyce of the Washington Post about my expulsion from the Microsoft campus for an article she was working on about the potential pitfalls of blogging about one's job. The article went live today: Free Expression Can Be Costly When Bloggers Bad-Mouth Jobs. ➡
  • 2004
    • Relationships One of the things that's always bothered me (and many other people) about social networking sites such as Orkut, Friendster, or any other *ster meme-of-the-moment is the binary nature of their setups — either someone is your friend, or they aren't. That's it. Those are your only choices. ➡
    • Own 1/1100th of a supercomputer! Now that Virginia Tech is upgrading 'Big Mac' to the new G5-based XServes, some of the original 1,100 dual 2Ghz G5 Power Macs that were part of the cluster are being sold through MacMall for $2799. ➡
    • Help the CIA find those pesky WMDs! How wonderfully thoughtful — the CIA has posted a handy little online form so that people can submit tips on WMD locations (and other Iraq-related intel). ➡
    • Like, I guess I’ll just have to, like, get used to it now 'It really is a wonderful, useful word,' says Muffy E.A. Siegel, an associate professor of English at Temple University in Philadelphia, who has studied the use of 'like.' ➡
    • Brother for sale …the words 'sewing machine' were accidentally dropped, leaving a 'BROTHER' for sale ad. ➡
    • Sponsorship I'm experimenting with something that I found via Snowman on the TPUG — sponsored weblog entries. Three posts on my site now have small, fairly unobtrusive text ads at the bottom of the post, for which I get some small amount of compensation. ➡
  • 2003
    • Still tempin' My boss got back to me with Xerox's employment offer. What did they use to try to entice me into the Xerox family? A whole lotta nuttin'. ➡
  • 2002
    • Hold on, please. Whenever a phone solicitor calls in the middle of dinner, don't get sore. Don't slam down the receiver. Don't hang up. Just say, 'Hold on, please.' Then gently set the receiver on the table and go about your business. ➡
    • Possibilities of moving? If I can come up with the money to make the move, I think it could be a good deal -- a larger, newer place for the same price, more varied experience on my resume, and being able to stay with a landlord that I know I'm on good terms with. ➡
    • You couldn’t pay me enough Ever since I started working here, I've been able to watch day by day as a new skyscraper is built about two blocks away from my building. When I started last August it wasn't much more than a hole in the ground as they worked on the foundation; now there is a steel framework stretching up about 25 floors, with a central concrete core that's going up what looks to be at least another ten floors or so. ➡
  • 2001
    • The un-what? It's our job...we have to be nice to the unfuckables. ➡
    • Quicker archiving, twins, frustration Seeing as how I'm actually starting to update this thing on a more regular basis, I figured I'd drop the archiving settings down to weekly so that this page didn't just keep scrolling on and on and on and on and on.... ➡

On This Day: Feb 10

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Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 24 posts previously published on February 10th

  • 2024
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
    • Book fourteen of 2019: Assignment: Eternity, by Greg Cox. ⭐️⭐️ 📚 An average Trek romp, marred by the author trying too hard to drop “clever” references to other Trek and pop culture events, and (worse) using a PNW indigenous people’s name for the name of a planet (Duwamish). ➡
    • A Theory About Saru (ST:DSC) 🖖 I’ve come to a theory about Saru on Star Trek: Discovery. Obviously, spoilers ahead (at least, if you haven’t seen all of ST:DSC to this point, and if I’m correct). ➡
    • 2019 Seattle Snowpocalypse, Sunday Update Ventured out from the homestead to make the trek over ice and snow to the local mercantile for provisions. Though the skies were clear, ‘twas still bitterly cold, as the winter sun brought no warmth. The footing was treacherous, but no spills were taken; scavengers were seen, but we gave them a wide berth. Some ... Read more ➡
  • 2018
    • Book nine of 2018 (and third #pkdickaward nominee): Bannerless, by Carrie Vaughn. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ➡
  • 2017
    • Book thirteen (and third #PKDickAward nominee) of 2017: Consider, by Kristy Acevedo. 🌟🌟🌟 ➡
  • 2016
    • Book seven of 2016: After the Saucers Landed, by Douglas Lain. ⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee. #douglaslain (41/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Best part of snow: living on a cul-de-sac after the plows come through. King of the hill! ➡
  • 2010
    • Managing Inbox Overload with Google Buzz From now on, rather than getting flooded with inbox messages every time a new Buzz response pops up, you'll have a little 'Buzzes' filter sitting to the left of your screen. If it's bold, you've got a response waiting for you. And that's it! ➡
  • 2006
    • Olympics Opening Ceremony Good and bad points regarding the first 2/3 of the Opening Ceremonies for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Torino, Italy. ➡
    • Humor in Tragedy All I could see in my head was a Toon Town riot, and I couldn't help laughing. Wrong, and I'm going to hell...but funny. ➡
    • Bruce the Wonder Yak I think it's a hilarious little random screed -- and my guess is that they just took every little 'in-joke' from the FCP programming team and tossed them all semi-randomly into a single text file. ➡
    • Bush’s hit list These are the proposed cuts in Bush's 2007 budget. A lot of things in here make me wince, but it's the education sections that really make me made. I want my 24.6 seconds back. ➡
    • Unfortunately Michael More fun with Google: Unfortunately Michael... ➡
  • 2005
    • That’s a lot of text Fun fact for today regarding this weblog: a full export from MovableType of every post and every comment results in a 12.7 Mb text file containing 3,117 posts and 8,178 comments and trackback pings. Wow. ➡
  • 2004
    • Wartime President There is a dark joke in Courthouses about a man who killed both his parents, then asked the judge to go easy on him as he is an orphan. ➡
    • Star Wars Parts IV-VI on DVD Sept. 21st! The good news: the 'first' three movies in the Star Wars trilogy (parts VI [A New Hope], V [The Empire Strikes Back], and VI [The Return of the Jedi]) will be released on DVD on September 21st. ➡
  • 2003
    • Impeach Bush? Could it be time to start thinking about impeaching Bush? Realistically, we're probably not at a point where it's going to happen, but that hasn't stopped some people from considering the idea — including Johnson Administration US Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Mr. Clark has drafted articles of impeachment, outlining the crimes and misdemeanors that Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Ashcroft should answer for, and the Vote to Impeach website is collecting 'signatures' to move the process forward. ➡
    • Cookies finally fixed! Thanks to a comment answering a question of Jonathon's, I'm about 95% sure that the cookies for djwudi.com are finally being set correctly, so that the comment forms will actually remember your information, instead of just teasing you with the possibility that they might remember one day if they feel like it. ➡
  • 2001
    • First steps… First steps into a field I haven't investigated in years: job searching. ➡
  • 1994
    • [From Usenet: 2.10.94 0308] Personally, I wouldn't mind a little more info on these guys...I've got what I can find by them, including the BLBT single (is this really out of print?), but am wondering if there are any singles from the new album...especially Butterfly Wings or Trigger For Happiness. Any info? ➡
    • [From Usenet: 2.10.94 0256] Have to agree here...in the midst of all the Enigma-bashing that's popped up, I like the new disc a lot...especially track three, Return to Innocence. Don't really mind the male vocals on other tracks that much, either... ➡
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Me, not long ago: “Okay, my ‘to-read’ shelves are full. No more books for me until I read more of these and open up some space.”

Me, today: “Well, I guess these can go on top of these, and these go behind these, and that gets today’s additions on the shelf….”

📚🤷🏼‍♂️

On This Day: Feb 9

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Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 24 posts previously published on February 9th

  • 2024
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • Look, it’s simple. That lawyer was legally required to inform the judge that, contrary to appearance, he was not actually a cat. Otherwise, he could have been charged with purrjury. ➡
  • 2020
    • Me, not long ago: “Okay, my ‘to-read’ shelves are full. No more books for me until I read more of these and open up some space.” Me, today: “Well, I guess these can go on top of these, and these go behind these, and that gets today’s additions on the shelf….” 📚🤷🏼‍♂️ ➡
    • On This Day: Feb 9 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 9 ➡
  • 2019
    • 2019 Philip K. Dick Award Rankings As I've done for the past few years, I've read all of the nominated works for this year’s Philip K. Dick Award. Following is my ranking, from least favorite to my favorite and pick for the award. ➡
    • Book thirteen of 2019: 84K, by Claire North. #PKDickAward nominee. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Set in a distressingly plausible near-future dystopic Britain, the unrelenting dreariness was difficult for me. As with post-apocalyptic fiction, I’m not a big fan; I prefer more hope in my futurism. ➡
    • Seattle Snowpocalypse 2019 Saturday morning update: Went out for a short walk to enjoy the scenery and scoff at the people driving too fast for conditions. That’s enough outside for us for a while! ➡
    • Seattle-Tacoma International Airport had 6.4 inches of snow Friday, according to the National Weather Service. It’s the second most snow recorded in the area in a day for the past 20 years, and nearly beat our yearly average (6.8 inches) in a single day. ➡
  • 2017
    • We only got a little rain today, but it was enough to give everything an icy gloss coat. The world looks plastic. ➡
  • 2016
    • From earlier today. Dentist’s offices are the height of ’90s cyberpunk fashion. (40/366) ➡
  • 2014
    • Approaching the end of the weekend. Not entirely convinced that going back to work tomorrow is really the best idea, but I don’t think I have a choice. ➡
  • 2009
  • 2005
    • Grandma’s Memorial Mom and dad just got back from their trip to Florida for Grandma's funeral, and dad posted this photo (with more to come, he says). ➡
    • Another day, another Doocing Another one bites the dust, as they say — this time Mark Jen, formerly of Google. TDavid has a good wrapup of information on this latest 'blogger gets fired' story. ➡
  • 2004
    • Examining Bush’s military record More and more, people are getting to the bottom of Bush's military record — the real one, that is, not the glossed-over propagand-ized version he'd like us to believe. ➡
    • Ilium Oooohhh &dmash; a new book by Dan Simmons! Being a big fan of his Hyperion series, this is very good news in my universe. ➡
    • GarageBand is evil I've poked around with GarageBand a bit since I got it, but haven't created anything major yet. However, it is way too much fun. ➡
    • Issue with my comments-only feed I have no idea if anyone other than myself is currently subscribing to my 'comments only' RSS feed, but I've noticed an odd issue with it that I haven't been able to troubleshoot yet: comments displaying with the date of the parent post, rather than the date of the comment. ➡
  • 2003
  • 2002
    • More political cartoon uproar The cartoon depicts President Bush's budget plan as an airplane veering towards two buildings labeled 'Social' and 'Security'. Not surprisingly, this has led to a fairly large uproar, to the point that White House spokesman Ari Fleischer issued his denouncement to reporters. ➡
  • 2001
    • Doing Trekkies (-ers?) proud It's been known for a while now that Paramount was going back and doing some work on Star Trek: The Motion Picture for its upcoming DVD release -- we just weren't entirely sure just what that meant. ➡
    • Ups and downs, and some possible changes Yesterday was not exactly the best day I've ever had -- not the worst overall, but certain moments may have some fairly large impact on days to come. ➡
  • 1994
    • [From Usenet: 2.9.94 0549] The only one I know of is _Solid Gold Hell_, available as an import from Cocomelos Records. Decent enough, although I wouldn't rave about it. ➡

On This Day: Feb 8

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Since I’ll hit 20 years of blogging this November, this year I’m posting a daily list of anything I published on this day in the past.

There are 32 posts previously published on February 8th

  • 2024
    • Year 50 Day 282 The quiet of the afternoon was almost eerie. ➡
    • All Your Images Are Belong to Zuck If you have what you consider to be a hard-line stance against AI-generated images, and you post your photos and/or artwork to Instagram, Threads, and/or Facebook, you should likely either rethink that hard-line stance or stop posting your images. ➡
  • 2022
  • 2021
    • Samer Recognized A Fart Online: “This afternoon in Slack, our work chatroom, Patrick shared a cute little viral video, as we do from time to time. None of us were prepared for what happened next.” ➡
    • The two top things I want from Apple’s Music (formerly iTunes) app: Functional search. The drastic decrease in functionality in the iTunes to Music transition is incredibly frustrating. Either a ‘tag’ field, or for the ‘Genre’ field to be tags, rather than single-value. 🎶 ➡
    • Difficult Listening Hour 2021.02.06 Unrehearsed, seat-of-the-pants, let's-see-what-happens mixing. You never know what might fall into one of these! ➡
  • 2020
    • At the next to last ConCom planning meeting before Norwescon 43. We’re getting closer! ➡
    • On This Day: Feb 8 Recognizing 20 years of blogging, here are my past posts from February 8 ➡
  • 2019
    • 🖖 #StarTrekDiscovery S02E04: A marked improvement over last week (no Klingons makes a big difference). Mysteries, science and technobabble, pissy fungus blobs, Number One, and reasons for no holograms on the Big E and (potentially) for no spore drive! Much better! ➡
    • Seattle Snowpocalypse 2019 status check, Friday afternoon. ➡
    • I’ll admit that I’m not a big fan of four-wheeling as a recreational activity; it seems to me wasteful and often damaging to the environment. That said, I can allow a little leeway if you have the chance to do it on the moon (gorgeous stabilized 60FPS video). ➡
    • Prepping for Snowpocalypse 2019 Survived my first experience with pre-*pocalypse shopping last night. The shopping itself wasn’t actually all that bad – we knew what we were getting into, and apparently so did most other people; it was definitely unusually busy, but people weren’t being unusually obnoxious – and it was amusing to see the many empty shelves where ... Read more ➡
  • 2017
    • So done with this. That big pile (top left) is actually taller than me. So freaking much snow! I left Alaska for a reason, dammit! 🌨❄️😜❄️🌨 ➡
  • 2016
    • 2016 fitness update: Finished level one of the Gorilla workout app yesterday (again), and moved on to start level two tonight. Graduated from modified push-ups (from the knees) to real push-ups…yay? Exercise is healthy and good, though. My weight’s been holding steady at 170 for the past two weeks, and Prairie says that she can ... Read more ➡
  • 2014
    • It snowed at least two inches while we were in the show; here at home, the snow is deeper than the car’s clearance (as evidenced by the marks between the tire tracks). We’re getting much more of a dump than I expected! ➡
    • Braving the winter weather for a night out at the opera! ➡
    • It’s been snowing all day, but it’s coming down nice and strong now that we’re out and about! ➡
  • 2009
    • Vinylicious Introducing a new blog: Vinylicous! I'm no hardcore vinyl collector, but I do keep an eye out for fun oddities to add to the collection I do have, and I'm planning on using Vinylicious to share some of the goodies I've found. ➡
  • 2007
    • PostSecret If you haven't run across [PostSecret][1] yet, you really should check it out. The concept is incredibly simple: people write their secrets on a postcard and send them in. Every Sunday, a new batch of secrets is posted on the site. ➡
  • 2006
    • The IT Crowd British humor and geek jokes (_lots_ of 'em, too, from Flying Spaghetti Monster posters to RTFM t-shirts to EFF 'Fair Use Has a Posse' stickers...essentially the entire set dressing) combined. ➡
  • 2005
    • Laurie Anderson: Mach 20 Now imagine, if you will, four hundred million blind and desperate sperm whales departing from the Pacific coast of North America, swimming at fifteen thousand miles per hour, and arriving in Japanese coastal waters in just under forty-five minutes. ➡
    • What about [some other blogging tool]? After reading my rant about comment spammers, Joel asked me if I'd thought about switching over to another weblogging system. Here's a (somewhat expanded) copy of what I sent back. ➡
    • The Al-Can Highway is no more! At least, according to Google's nifty new Google Maps page, that's the story. Realistically, I'm quite sure that this is simply because Google Maps doesn't have the Canadian highway system in their database at the moment. Hopefully that's only a temporary thing, as that is a search that returns good results in both Mapquest and Yahoo! Maps. ➡
    • The Spammers Have Won (for now) Until I have time to get in and do some rather major work on my webserver, I'm afraid that comments and TrackBacks are turned off. I really don't like doing this -- I like the interaction aspect, both getting into discussions and just knowing that people stop by here from time to time -- but the attacks on the server have been too severe and too regular, and I'm tired of battling them. ➡
  • 2004
    • So much for that secure entrance… Hey…could you help me? There's this crazy guy wandering the halls. He keeps banging on the doors…I don't know what to do. ➡
    • This is so juvenile. I’m very sorry. My computer doesn't like my Prick. ➡
    • Uff-da After fourteen trips down and up six stories to get three loads of laundry done, I really wish that they'd just go ahead and get the damn elevator in this place fixed. ➡
    • Geek backlash It was bound to happen eventually. It actually probably started happening a few years ago, but now it's actually getting news stories — 'geeks' are tired of fixing people's problems. ➡
  • 2002
    • Search back up Okay, the new search engine is installed and running. The pages don't mesh visually with the rest of the site yet, but I'll get that fixed up some other time -- Candice should be over sometime soon, and I wanted to be done with tonight's 'geeking out' before she got here. ➡
    • Search disabled I've just temporarily disabled the search function as I upgrade to a more powerful and full-featured search system offered by the same company. It should be back up within a couple hours at most (if all goes well). ➡
  • 2001
  • 1994
    • [From Usenet: 2.8.94 0325] If it's the same 'Cold Hearted Snake' as I'm thinking of, it was Paula Abdul, a few years back. Is the cover good? Might be interested in hearing it... ➡
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📚 nine of 2020: The Outside, by Ada Hoffman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #PKDickAward nominee

Humankind is out in space, limited to mid-20th century tech while super advanced AI gods control advanced tech, FTL flight and comms…oh, and Lovecraftian energies are destroying people. Fun!