Category Archive for: ‘Ponderings’

• Ponderings For 2008-08-24

  Posted Aug 24 2008 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  Shorter post for today. I’ve sufficiently distracted myself with other online projects this weekend, and didn’t do as much posting to make up for all my down time as I had intended. I did get one movie review posted, and will hopefully do a number …

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• Ponderings For 2008-08-20

  Posted Aug 20 2008 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  OK, the Ponderings postings are gonna have to be split up for the rest of the week. After the long down time, things have built up to the point where I don’t wanna overwhelm you with too much at once. So, let’s see if I …

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• Ponderings For 2008-07-26

  Posted Jul 26 2008 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  So, longer space between posts than usual this time. I’ve had a fairly chaotic couple weeks, and have barely been home. So, let’s cover some of the stuff from the last couple weeks. With Comic-Con 2008 going on this week, there has been plenty of …

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• Ponderings For 2008-07-12

  Posted Jul 12 2008 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  Today was one of those days where nothing could go quite right for me. Not that it was filled with major problems, just lots of bad bits of timing and other stupidities. So, I’ll try and end the day by digging through some fun stuff …

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• Ponderings For 2008-07-07

  Posted Jul 7 2008 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  This post wings its way to you from sunny Bellingham, WA (no seriously, whenever I’m here, it’s 72 degrees and not a cloud in sight). I’m here for a brief business trip, heading back tomorrow. So I sit here in the hotel room watching some …

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• Ponderings For 2008-06-29

  Posted Jun 29 2008 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  Nice short post today to make up for the lack of them recently… For those that missed news of the big event, Bill Gates officially stepped down at Microsoft on Friday, ending a major era of computing. One little tidbit: I’m roughly as old as …

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• Ponderings For 2008-06-22

  Posted Jun 22 2008 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  RIP: George Carlin – may you be stuck on the roof for a great long while I’m going to go off on a topic at the moment which is a bit unusual for me – alternative music. I heard a song the other day that …

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• Ponderings For 2008-06-16

  Posted Jun 16 2008 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  RIP: Stan Winston. This one comes as a huge loss to the movie industry. Winston was a modern legend when it came to creature effects and animation, and later in all realms of visual effects. From his days with Jim Cameron working on Terminators and …

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• Ponderings For 2008-06-09

  Posted Jun 9 2008 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  The petaflop barrier has been broken. Good grief. Speaking of computing power, the x86 processor celebrated its 30th anniversary on Sunday I will never, ever watch anything on TBS. Not ever. Not after seeing this. Leo DiCaprio is set to play Nolan Bushnell in an …

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• Ponderings For 2008-06-03

  Posted Jun 3 2008 in Ponderings with 0 Comments

  RIP: Alexander Courage RIP: Robert H. Justman (sad week for us Trek fans with both of those passings) RIP: Earle Hagen Add to that the fact that Kelsey Grammer had a minor heart attack This is a compilation of some amazing pool shots Security camera …

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