A New Year (or is it?)

...redeveloped my interest in Irish music that had awakened at the end of last summer. Yesterday, I rewired all of the computer equipment. The kids and I assembled a new desk from IKEA, and I got the new printer networked to both the old and new computers. Now I just need to find a way to get the Win7 box to file share with the WinXP box. We finished the day by watching FUNNY PEOPLE, but it was not ...

Quick article about Twitter

... what Mr. Shirky has called “algorithmic authority,” meaning that if all kinds of people are pointing at the same thing at the same instant, it must be a pretty big deal. Beyond the throbbing networked intelligence, there is the possibility of practical magic. Twitter can tell you what kind of netbook you should buy for your wife for Christmas — thanks Twitter! — or call you out when you complain...

Kill Time, Injure Eternity (Chapter 3)

... through his small ‘get-togethers.’ One did not refuse the invitations to these gatherings, not only because they were hard to come by, but also because one did not wish to irritate such a well-networked professor whose recommendation could very well make or break one’s future after Hogwarts. Not that she had a future to look forward to but it was the principle of the matter. Much as people ...

I went in for coffee and Cheetos, I left with a printer.

...d have spent at the liquidators. They also had a small stock of printers out, and one was on my list... for the same price as listed in Future Shop. So, yoink, and I have a new Officejet J4680 networked all-in-one. There were a few more obstacles to printer-bliss yet to overcome, as the first cash to which I took my awkward double-armload of loot had to close due to (irony of ironies) a gift card...

Session 7 Recap

... that the Vallorians have established in their winding tunnels, the party finds themselves amidst an unexpected situation: an elite strike team of Chorrim have invaded! While they are still invisible and networked by telepathy, the party quickly discusses which side they will choose to aid, and the decision is ultimately made that they will fight against the Chorrim to curry favor with the ...

12 Days of Christmas (Days 1-10)

... a regard to life, as James Cameron’s universe adopted a Gaianist theme that I was personally amused with, as much as Sigourney Weaver’s character (Grace) was when he explained to Parker that the trees were networked like the synapses of the brain. It was simply AAAAAAAH-MAZING. I couldn’t take my eyes off the humongous screen even if it was last full showing. I didn’t even feel the time pass me ...

Terminator 5: Y 10 K

... the earlier killer machines had batteries that wore out after a few hours. Or they ran out of ammo. Or parts that wore out pretty quick. None of their repairs are carried out by autonomous or networked machines." "it is because of the Future!" said John. Finally they arrived at the Atlantic Coast. there was an Island right off the shore. It was Hilton Head Island! There were some boats, so they...

Avatar

... gets old, and it got old before this movie. But the designs were actually really cool. There was some nice detail on the botany in the backgrounds, and the idea of the entire planet being networked was a really nice touch. I'm not sure how I feel about the braid connector thing (all the creatures have two connector things except the humanoids, which seems biologically unsound, design-wise), but ...

Micro-celebrity: Questions and answers with reporters

... gaming, but far more of us think of it in terms of the fonts we use on our home pages, the blogs we’re asked to post to for on behalf of our schools and companies, the networked photos others post of us on Facebook, the follows we receive on Twitter, the serialization of our videos on YouTube. We present ourselves through media, we are experienced as media, and we often experience ourselves as ...

... blue people, the Na'vi, communicate with animals through their hair, right? Well, the tentacles in their hair, and they communicate with the wild animals of Pandora. That is original. The idea of the networked planet, where a sort of science and spiritualism blend, that is interesting and neato. Shame they butcher that. First thing's first. Sam Worthington, our hero? How is it that he's a thick-...