‘Track’ and ‘Whack’
July 22, 2013Unbelievable but true — it’s Monday! And overcast and chilly this morning on California’s north coast as we gear up for another fact-tested work week. All is well. Big climax this morning — Kate is…
Tag Archives: internet
‘House’ of Way-Ugly
July 21, 2013Another weekend shot into the film void, this time it’s the much-talked-about ‘House of Cards,’ of which I witnessed the first half (of 13 episodes) yesterday on Netflix, and all at one sitting. Of course,…
‘The Drum’ goes still
July 14, 2013Sad news now a couple of weeks old — one of the way-best data/info sites on the InterWebs will soon go ‘archive‘ only and a neat, educated voice in the ether will go quiet. The…
‘Willy nilly’ goes the nsa
June 30, 2013Fog mostly this Sunday on California’s north coast with a bit of sunshine on occasion, and bad heat just about everywhere else. And talk about a way-hot scandal — the NSA has become a rolling…
‘Surveillance is just shit with two eyes’
June 24, 2013Raining but warm this early Monday on California’s north coast and this whole week is forecast to be all wet. We all need the water, though. And meanwhile, the whole world has gone ape shit…
lost In the ether
June 14, 2013(Illustration found here). A kind of shaker coming in the wake of the NSA/Internet/surveillance weirdness is the news today of someone pulling off a “sophisticated” hack late last year of CBS News reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s…
nasty grab bag
March 24, 2013Bright and sunny this Sunday afternoon on California’s north coast, and the dreaded wind hasn’t kicked-up as of yet, so the air is warm and easy. Despite Spring being sprung last week, the US midsection…
Laptop Lunacy
March 24, 2013Hello from the past. I’ve been involuntarily offline since Thursday — this laptop is a most-baffling mystery to me. Regular readers might recall my near-new laptop (and another functioning old one) were stolen in January,…
Distorted reality
March 3, 2013Interesting, though, I don’t know if it’s real or not — can’t read Cyrillic. Some photos of supposed-fragments off the famous meteorite that flamed across the Chelyabinsk region of Russia last month can be seen here (via…
IED — ‘therapeutic misadventure’
February 7, 2013Mr. George Carlin explains: “‘Older’ sounds a little better than ‘old,’ doesn’t it? Sounds like it might even last a little longer. … I’m getting old. And it’s OK. Because thanks to our fear of…