Picked up a 24″ Westinghouse L2410NM LCD to replace my aging 20″ CRT.
Wiggum 2008
I was amused to find the Wiggum For President site and then a little disappointed when I realized it was an official Fox project rather than something that had spawned spontaneously (spawntaneous?) from the melting pot of the insidious and unpredictable WWW.
Still, you gotta love the slogan “Hop On The Wiggum-Wagon”
XM Joy
Driving home the other night I heard the last part of Tam Lin by Fairport Convention and most of the Yes song “Siberian Khatru” …
XM almost makes me wish my commute was longer.
Power Outage
The power to the house went out right at sunset. As it got darker I noticed that there didn’t seem to be any power on the whole block.
Computers down, Internet down, TV down…
Only functioning technology is the camera.
Time to shoot the darkness!
Cthulhu dot com
I have owned the domain cthulhu.com since 1998 when it inexplicably became available to be registered after being one of the first Internet domains created. I’ve generally had the domain pointed at baldheretic.com or geekradio.com as I’ve been quite lazy about creating any Cthulhu specific content. There’s been the odd thing here and there, but nothing lasting or involved.
What with it being an election year I decided to throw something up and voila! Cthulhu For President now has an official site. I’m still looking for content and direction. I’ve got feelers/tentacles out to my like minded friends so we’ll see what develops. If you know any artists or writers that might want to contribute, send them my way.
Right now the site has been put up on stumbledupon.com so it’s getting a lot of hits and is in the process of going up and down, along with the other sites hosted on the server, so don’t be feel compelled to tell me you can’t reach it if you can’t reach it. I am already aware.
Flowering Pear Tree
My poor pear tree. The weather’s been so weird that it didn’t drop it’s leaves until last month and now it’s already sprouting new ones and flowering…
Robot Building
On our way to dinner tonight Cynthia and I were both struck by how much the new hospital building going up on I-10 near Gessner looked like a giant robot…
Interestingly enough, there’s a whole Flickr group dedicated to photographs of things that look like a robot and it’s called, you guessed it, “Things That Look Like A Robot“
File Sharing
Lori Jones here in Houston got a letter from lawyers representing the RIAA indicating she is being sued for copyright infringement to the tune of over half a million dollars. Apparently her daughter had downloaded and installed Limewire to share music.
According to the lawsuit the half-million dollar price tag works out to $750 per infringement. That’s $750 per song. Pretty steep considering you can purchase the songs at the iTunes store for 99 cents a pop. On the plus side, they are willing to settle for a one time fee of $4,000.
You can see the whole story here.
Jeff Ehling from the local ABC affiliate station here in Houston, TX called me to setup an interview. Since I had taken the day off we did it in the comfort of my living room.
Strangely, this time I was only referred to as:
Jay Lee who hosts a radio program that specializes in computer issues