Monday 15 June 2009 at 09:28 am
According to MacNN,
AT&T has sent out the word that "Only preorders placed [on] Friday, June 12, 2009 or earlier are expected to arrive in time for the 7:00 a.m. opening on Friday, June 19th, 2009. Customers will receive an email notification when their new iPhone 3G S has arrived and is available for pickup."
After a couple of false starts, I placed my pre-order at my friendly neighborhood AT&T store at like 6 p.m. on Friday. Just barely, but good enough.
Wednesday 10 June 2009 at 09:36 am
For the handful of people who care and yet haven't heard yet,
Comedy Central is bringing back Futurama for a 26-episode season. I'm excited that it's coming back -- again -- but doubt that I'll resubscribe to cable by the time it returns next year, so I look forward to the eventual
DVD Blu-Ray release of the new season.
Tuesday 26 May 2009 at 12:39 pm
io9 has a column about an interesting subject --
why and how we assign gender to machines? I have noticed over the past couple of weeks that every time I talk about my trip to Kennedy, I refer to the orbiters as "her." I don't know that I have assigned gender to any technology at my house, but then I also don't have anything with as much "autonomy" as a Roomba.
Do you assign gender to any technology, machines, vehicles, appliances, etc.?
Monday 16 March 2009 at 11:25 am
(Cross-posted elsewhere. Sorry, Heather.)
OK, I need help and or advice. I have, over the years, collected a handful of old computers that, really, you know, I just don't need. An old Mac Plus. An early PowerMac Performa. A stripped-down Lombard G3. Etc. I really hate the idea of just putting them in my trash can, but I really don't know what to do with them. Anybody want them, or know what I can do with them?
Friday 13 March 2009 at 10:37 am
Since I probably won't be blogging tomorrow, let me just point out now that March 14 is
Pi Day.
Followed on Sunday by the
Ides of March.
Thursday 26 February 2009 at 07:23 am
CarlosLabs has created a new Google Maps Javascript app that lets you see the
effects of a nuclear blast on a given location on Earth, to which I'm grateful for confirming my theory that even a relatively small blast like the 21 kiloton "Fat Man" dropped on Nagasaki would pretty much wipe Sunflower, Miss. off the map.
Tuesday 17 February 2009 at 10:47 am
Another picture from my friend Jordan Walker of Homesteading Space on a shelf ... this time at a bookstore at Yale. Heh.
