“If I listened long enough to you. I’d find a way, to believe that it’s all true” – Rod Stewart, warning us about Alexa. Clippy. Goddamn Clippy from Microsoft Word circa 2000s. That’s the decision support tool that most people…
Category: Discuzzion
Puppy Karma
I feel a little guilty. Not that I did the wrong thing, but that I didn’t do the best thing. I wanted to adopt from a shelter, or from an unplanned private litter. It’s the right thing to do. Instead,…
Electoral Boogie. Pick a dance, and perfect it already.
If you take a really fuel efficient car, convert it to electric power, then install solar panels on the roof, what do you get? 3 good ideas that won’t get you to work. That’s what we have for our Presidential…
No one needs 24 hour news
There’s 24 days until this goddamn election is over. What a year. For a political junkie like me, it’s been very confusing. This is like my Superbowl. I’m horrible at predicting winners, but I’ve been carefully watching the games since…
Ep001-Random-Musings
So, here it is. Episode 1-Guns-A-Blazing. This podcast thing is going to take time. Maybe I’ll never be any good at it. That’s ok with me. This is one of those things I want to say I’ve done, and will…
Adventures in domain naming
Prompted by the continuing unsolicited offers to buy a domain name I’m not really that interested in selling, I’ve gone a bit overboard researching more domain names to buy. I know it’s dumb, but if I could consistently flip domains for $1500+,…
More Star Wars Speculation *SPOILERS, Potential Spoilers… unlikely guesses*
Just a thought: ARGHHH, not everyone has to be a Skywalker! This mad theory is going to be about Rey, in case you were wondering. Let’s start with the theories that just set my nerd rage to twitching. Bad Theory…
Current Projects
Projects I’ve informally worked on over the past few years. None are functioning services, some are just domain names and scribbled notes. As I put together these notes, realized they fall broadly into 3 categories; social, ecommerce and security. Why…
The Twidit App/Site Pitch
The Twidit Pitch: Lots of people poll twitter followers to answer questions/identify things/recall facts. Twidit will be an app/website to make this a little easier. By querying the user to identify the common information elements, things like ‘Where was it?’, ‘When…
None of our business
What can you say about those cyclical lingering ugly stories about popular culture icons? Michael Jackson, John Travolta, Woody Allen, Bing Crosby, Bill Cosby, Gumby … the list is limited only by my memory, my commitment to treating the topic serious…