The more I read the more hopeful I become for the future. I see something coming, something wonderful. Or, more accurately, many something’s that are revolutionary and whose impacts will be felt in our society for many decades to come. I read allot. I have about 12 magazine subscriptions, some of which are weekly and Read More …

When watching war movies you’ll often see people behave in very strange ways. Behavior that flies in the face of the reality around them. It seems that people reach a threshold of trauma where they break and just cling to any normal seeming activity even though it makes no sense in the current cirumstances. A Read More …

I’ve been thinking about what I like in online games. I started, with a lot of others, my first foray into Massively Multi Player Online Role Playing Games with Ultima Online. Its style of graphics and incredible lag just didn’t do much to interest me. Then along came EverQuest. I played EQ for a long Read More …

Last Thursday Bob twisted my arm. He wanted us all to buy and play Planetside. I’d tried the beta briefly and didn’t really get into it much. It didn’t help that the servers were crashing a lot and there is a learning curve involved in the game. I had decided I wasn’t really interested in Read More …

Saturday we finished the basement floor. The last 3 pieces were the toughest to cut. The wall juts out at a silly angle and we had to undercut the door frame as well. The carpet transition strip was also a pain to install since I had to drill holes in the concrete floor, push in Read More …

How quickly we tire. In the beginning we had color coded terror alert levels, no doubt designed to tell people quickly what the threat and safety levels were in the country. Headlines read “threat level at Orange” or “Washington lowers threat level to Yellow”. Then the color wasn’t enough. Deep Orange crept in. Now even Read More …

I’ve been wondering recently about the abrupt turn around that Colin Powell has displayed over the war in Iraq. It’s refreshing to see that I’m not the only one who noticed that something changed and that what is presented isn’t always what is real. It’s nice to know that my memory isn’t faulty and things Read More …

While I admit to being annoyed at the overt nature porn on the internet has taken, I hardly think it’s damaging, dangerous or needs legislation of any type let alone of this magnitude. The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote Thursday on a proposal that would criminalize using misleading domain names to lure Read More …

I think that phrase gets used entirely too often to cover up overtly bad planning and stupid ungrounded assumptions. Our current military planers seem to be running off the deep end when it comes to planning this war on Iraq. I’d love to know why Powell is being so queit about it as well. Many Read More …

Since before Operation Iraqi Freedom started, something bothered me about the assumptions apparent in the planning as revealed by what we were told. The major thing that bothered me was the notion that this war would be a fast one, that we’d show the Iraqi people the futility of fighting us and they’d be so Read More …