Lacking in good sense I am up too late again Ph34r my DPS ~ ~ ~ The last line could really be changed to any five-syllable reveal.

Rowan's spoken vocabulary has started increasing exponentially. In just the past week I've gone from cautiously acknowledging certain sounds as "words" to admitting that he actually has a vocabulary. Rowan now says, in order of acquisition: no (as well as "no...", "NO!", "no *headshake*", "nonononono!", and possibly "no, mama") yeah (and "yes", to a lesser extent) donut tree baby book toast shoes...

Shamus Young (of the famed " DM of the Rings " comic) writes about what buying a toaster would be like if they were marketed by videocard makers . Hey man, I need a new toaster. You know all about kitchen stuff. Have any suggestions? The KitchenAid4000 series just came out. Are those good? I have a KA4510, and it’s really good. Does it have 4 slots? Oh you want 4 slots? Well...

I made a New Year's resolution this year! I never do that. "I resolve to resolve to do things at times other than New Years this year." ... Waitaminute.

New models of Macs include HDCP . What that means is that media with DRM will not play on a new Mac if it has an "unauthorised" display connected. Unauthorised displays include external monitors, TVs, projectors, and so on that aren't also HDCP-compliant. This is utterly stupid. Most of the hardware already out there or on the market is not HDCP-compliant. Not only that, nobody knows what is and...

The CEO of Cinemark, parent company of Tinseltown and IMAX theatres, gave $10,000 to the Proposition 8 campaign to amend the California state constitution to ban gay marriage. Not surprisingly there are calls to boycott all Cinemark-owned theatres. The last time I went to Tinseltown was to see a screening during the Out On Screen GLBTQ festival. Ironically that money helped to un-marry 8,000...