I just re-read Asimov’s “The Last Question” after having lunch with my folks. It’s probably my favorite story from one of my four night-stand mainstays (Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Treasury, that also includes “Flowers for Algernon” which I cannot assign enough importance to).
When I get back to my computer and hop over to my [...]

My life expectancy (based on gender, nationallity, and current age) is 76.42 years…  that gives me until until Monday, June 18, 2063, which is 74 days after the Vulcans make first contact.
While it does a lot of neat things with one piece of information: a name, a date, some math, it doesn’t seem to be [...]

Upgrading to the latest WordPress has introduced the ‘Â’ character into a number of posts. As I have no idea why this happened and my phpMyAdmin-fu is weak, this fix will have to wait for a while.
EDIT: Just fixed it today after a rather simple find-and-replace on the wp_posts table.  (Export -> Do Notepad++ [...]

In the spirit of the Stock Tips post on the lovely DreamHost Blog, I bring you TypeFrag’s totally rad gamer pics:

Obviously a badass.

Hey… how you doin’?

How you doin’ take two.

HERPES!

ZOMBIES!

Token minority!

What the fuck is up with her eye shadow?

HERPES take two!

Right as soon as I log onto Xfire:
[09:31] matty: do u play mohaa
[09:31] Cal: no…
[09:31] matty: kk
[09:31] <This user is now offline>
What the hell?