Had a good weekend. Saw Ian’s family Saturday and the little nephew Carson. So cute! Sunday was Main Street Arts Festival in Ft. Worth, which is becoming a routine for us and always a source of great art for the house. We’ll eventually know about it ahead of time and invite more people along, […]

Seriously creepy! A robotic human-looking head that has facial expressions while it talks and understands human speech in real time.
Biomimetic-robot-Hanson.mov (video/quicktime Object)

This is just ridiculous, you know? I re-installed MS Word on our laptop tonight. (Illegally of course, since it’s already installed on at least one PC in the house, but I won’t even go there on how crazy it is to expect Joe Consumer to pay hundreds per copy for a simple word processor for […]

I was watching the season finale of West Wing with James, Chris, and Ian the other night (fantabulous as always, both the company and the show!), and I realized something.
I want someone to believe in.
I’m a very independent thinker (doesn’t come as a shocker to those of you who know me). I’ve always hated the […]

I was livid when I read about this just a day or two ago: pharmacists across the country are not filling women’s prescriptions for morning-after pills (taken the morning after sex, it prevents the fertilized egg from implanting in the uterine wall preventing pregnancy). The pharmacists of course claim it is their right to freedom […]

But in a good way. I just impulsively bought a Samsung 17″ LCD monitor. I have looked at them in the store this last week with Ian and I liked this monitor, and it comes highly reviewed. Plus, this was the best deal I’ve seen on it or a comparable monitor.
It’s just that it’s […]

My co-worker Brian tried to post a comment about the cheesy motivational seminar we went to a few weeks ago, but my comment filtering program has apparently become a bit overzealous (thanks blog comment spammers!) and wouldn’t let him post it. That or the software could tell the motivational seminar he mentioned was just too […]

A bit bored at work today writing JUnit tests so I’ve been web-surfing, blogging, etc. So here’s a nice, pointless, philosophical rant.
The concept of a singularity point and meta- or post-humanity is a very interesting concept to me. One of the foremost minds in the field, who also happens to have written some excellent science […]

My god people. Give it a rest. “Religious freedom” if uber-conservatives have their way will one day soon mean conservative Christians have the right to proselytize the heathens 24/7, no matter where they are. People will convert just to shut them up.
I’m all for religious freedom, don’t get me wrong. You have the right to […]

Saw Sin City last night with Jai and Ian. I came out of it thinking it was good but not great. An amazing style, but not a lot of plot. ModFab does the movie justice though and talks about how the gritty, intense, ground-breaking cinematographic style of the film IS what makes it great, that […]