Category: Side Tracks
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New Year’s Resolutions
Ready to fail at New Year’s Resolutions again? Here’s my list of doomed goals, complete with the usual dose of sarcasm and inevitable disappointment. Enjoy!
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Winter Tech
Ah, the modern marvel that is the snow blower—a glorious contraption that has saved many of us from the spine-cracking torment of shoveling snow by hand. It’s one of those inventions that makes you think, “Finally, humanity is getting somewhere.” No more sweating through layers of wool and flannel, no more wincing as that first…
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Interesting Stuff about 9
The number nine was consecrated to the Spheres and the Muses. It is the sign of every circumference; because a circle of 360 degrees is equal to 9, that is to say, 3+6+0=9. Nevertheless, the ancients regarded this number with a sort of terror: they considered it a bad presage; as the symbol of versatility,…
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MP3 players, not just for music
When most people thing MP3 player, they think music. Believe it or not, there are other things out there you can listen to on them.
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Top 5 Tech Toys this Holiday Season
Tis the season to be jolly and give the tech-head on your holiday list something that will make them wish they would have gotten you something better than a WalMart Gift Card. At number five, I’d have to say is the MP3 player. If the person on your list doesn’t have one of these yet,…
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Computers DO dream of Electric Sheep
This software owes its name to Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. It realizes the collective dream of sleeping computers from all over the internet.
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George Carlin
You know, there are a few people who come along in this world that change the face of something. George Carlin was one of them. I’m not going to go all editorial about it, but he WILL be missed. :::Raising one shot of Jameson to the King of In Your Face Ceomedy!:::
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Stamina
If you like to play with language as much as I do, head on over and read “languagehat“. The following is an example of what I’m talking about. Another bout of idle wondering led me to look up the etymology of stamina; I suddenly realized it looked like the plural of stamen, but thought “that…
