I’ve got a ticket for an early showing Thursday with a bunch of IT nerds. We will be in our geek shirts because that is what we went to work in.

It is. As an actual functioning nerd, it offends me.

Purple Haze

Oh, god. My parents used to drag us out to this old dance hall out in the middle of nowhere. Usually the DJ would play George Straight and the like, but my sister and I would bug the hell out of him until he played Pack Man Fever. We did the little dance and everything.

Emmerich isn’t the deepest filmmaker on the planet, but he is good at spectacle. I know I’ll see it on the big screen once the crowds go down.

I always find it repugnant when a news organization puts out a hit on a candidate’s wife. Even when that candidate is Trump.

That was funnier than anything Wilmore said.

Wilmore was bad. Just like his show. I made it about half way through his act and noped the fuck out.

Amazon is fairly insistent that I will like these books. If only I had time to read the things already in my queue.

Apple named their Lightning cables after a scene in the movie Fight Club.

Apple named their Lightning cables after a scene in the movie Fight Club.

We’ll get there. Making 50,000 miles of it will likely be a challenge.

We did! That is how he saw Peanuts.

Luddite! I use a fax machine!

“The fault that caused the hacking was in the Federal Reserve of United States, so we will file a case in the international court against the US Fed,” he said.

Lack of firewall would be the answer to that question. These days firewalls, routers, intrusion detection, and intrusion prevention devices are all the same box. The fact it wasn’t (or didn’t have some other layered approach) in this case is somewhat alarming. I’m betting SWIFT is going to start auditing local IT…

Awww! Best of luck with the new novel.

He is 4, so he kinda already is. The plus side to all the birthday party stuff is that they also have sleepovers. So you can dump your kid on someone else for the weekend and go out for frosty margs.

I still haven’t gotten to see Zootopia yet. Apparently, when you sign up you kid for soccer, you are contractually obligated to go to your team mates birthday parties. There is one every damn weekend. I should just get a weekend job at Chuckie Cheese. On the other hand, the boy is becoming a piñata ninja.

My degree in Xenobiogenisis from the Discovery Channel doesn’t really cover that question. All life on earth started out as a bubble within a bubble. The layer between those bubbles became more complex about letting things in and out and awhile later you have cells. I don’t know how that would happen outside of a…

That is the kinda of thing I would expect to see. They still evolved within Earth’s magnetic field (presumably). It would be much more difficult for self-replicating structures to arise over time while being exposed to cosmic radiation. It tears apart the structure and turns it back into chemical soup.