Having wasted a lot of today and yesterday reading historical documents to let my background thought processes swap out and then back in — the Unix Haters Handbook, a few Wikipedia pages and some Jargon file — I’ve come to an unexpected conclusion that the category of “relevance” needs a serious reevaluation… Not the word, [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2007
History
Saturday, March 24, 2007
CGA: Cromagnon Graphics Adapter EGA: Early Graphics Adapter VGA: Victorian Graphics Adapter
Freevo + Firefox
Thursday, March 22, 2007
It’s just an idea so far. I don’t have the time to devote to polishing it, unfortunately. As you might know if you’ve been reading me, I’m an adherent of Freevo, which runs on a machine assembled specifically for the purpose of watching media on a TV, which doesn’t even have an antenna plugged in [...]
Chicken
Thursday, March 22, 2007
I have mentioned a few times previously, that the one greatest barrier to forming an international culture in our networked global village age is the absence of a truly common language. For a time I thought that eventually we’d be getting there one way or another. That, however, was about five years ago, when the [...]
Telephone
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
For a man who finds it hard to find people to talk to, I get an incredibly large number of phone calls — normally, at least three daily. The most common case, naturally, is my mother, who calls mostly to whine about her court case these days. This includes requiring legal advice around 09:00, which [...]
My mother’s plumbing court case, abridged
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Dramatis personae: Me: Yours truly, acting remotely by phone as legal advice. Kiselev: A paranoid litigious bastard neighbour. Mom: My unfortunate old mother. Pipe: A pipe for pumping feces through, built ad-hoc with no planning and disregard of all regulations. Leaks whenever rains are strong enough. Judge: A virtual entity required for the purposes of [...]
Крутость
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Я уже много лет не могу сварить яйца вкрутую. Это какой-то странный феномен, не то из области традиционных для меня шуточек с течением времени, не то из области термодинамики. Как известно, яйца бывают полностью крутые, когда сам желток приобретает твердость и становится бледно-желтым, а его оболочка зеленеет, в мешочек, когда белок уже полностью тверд, а [...]