My friend Jason Dove just put out a trailer for the next ten episodes of his online television show, which I thought I would share. I’ve seen sneak previews of a couple of the episodes and its a whole new ball-game from last season’s escapades (I’m in episodes 6, 8 & 10).
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“In ancient Greece any man who had been supposed erroneously to be dead, and for whom in his absence funeral rites had been performed, was treated as dead to society till he had gone through the form of being born again. He was passed through a woman’s lap, then washed, dressed in swaddling-clothes, and put [...]
Some quotes collected on the subject. This sort of relates to the “unpredictable tools” post of a few days ago:
I really don’t want any magic mumbo-jumbo in the technical documents produced by the aeronautical engineers who are trying to work out how a 617 ton Airbus A380 will actually get off the ground and stay [...]
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“Under this metaphor, the computer is populated with little people (LPs) who are specialists at particular procedures, and “hire” other LPs to perform subprocedures. LPs are normally asleep, but can be woken up to perform their task. Whenever an LP needs a subprocedure to be run, it wakes up and hires an LP who specializes [...]
Meant to tack this onto my description yesterday of my skeleton Halloween costume. To recap, the costume consisted of a jointed plastic skeleton attached to the front of my body, so that when I moved my trunk or limbs, the skeleton followed suit. The thing I noticed after having bonded with the character of the [...]
Halloween was a hoot. Finally on a Saturday for once. Tons of tricker-treaters in my neighborhood. Daylight Savings equals an extra hour at the bar. Almost a full moon. My costume was a jointed plastic skeleton I bought for $19.99 and modified by reinforcing the joints with wire. I cut slits into the back, through [...]
