Random Musings of Brian A. Thomas. Love for Sara and Ari.
Posted in General on Jun 30th, 2006
Hopefully you are using Firefox rather than Internet Explorer, though if you are using Opera 9, then that is okay as well. I learned a few tricks about Firefox and thought I would pass them on.
If you click a link using the middle mouse button, it will open in a new tab, and to think [...]
Posted in Politics on Jun 30th, 2006
So let me get this straight. The government, thanks to the stupid anti-American Patriot Act, can spy on you and wiretap you without a warrant. They can now search homes without announcing themselves, although for the moment they normally need a warrant… the normally part is an indicator that warrants might go the way of [...]
Posted in Politics on Jun 29th, 2006
U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works is a piece from the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on how the U.S. Senate feels the AP should be more forthcoming in an article where they claim scientist praise Gore’s new global warming movie. It mildly points to some of the junk science [...]
Posted in General on Jun 28th, 2006
With this one you stare at the center of the video until it tells you to look away. Once again, it is safe, there is no screaming person at the end. The illusion works even if you don’t look away, as you’ll see the patterns behind the text that says “Look away NOW” even though [...]
Posted in General on Jun 27th, 2006
Check this film maker’s take on movie piracy… sounds much like what lots of recording artists say about MP3s…
Anyone who thinks the MPAA or the RIAA cares anything about the artists have to rethink things, they only care about the mega million studios and their interests, which often runs against the artist…
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Posted in Movies on Jun 27th, 2006
Okay, I didn’t make it to the movie theater for ages. I missed tons of movies that I wanted to see, but I’ll probably have to make it out for Superman Returns and Pirates of the Caribian… Reason enough to see Superman Returns would be to see the Spiderman 3 trailer on the big screen… [...]
Posted in General on Jun 27th, 2006
Oh… I forgot to be clear that Sara is back from her thing. She came back late Saturday, a day before closing ceremonies, as she missed Ari and I.
Posted in Politics on Jun 27th, 2006
Techdirt has a good analogy for the net neutrality issue:
Finally, the article rolls out the bogus argument that a few others have used before that, if network neutrality applied to the delivery of packages, we’d never have FedEx or UPS because they wouldn’t be able to offer priority service. That’s the wrong analogy, since there’s [...]
Here is a cool game at Absolute. The idea is to find the shape of 82 Absolute bottles. I maxed out so far with about 61, but that one included some random clicks where I saw the bottle after I clicked. The best I did so far with actually clicking it was 55, but I [...]
Posted in Ari Update on Jun 24th, 2006
Ari is back home after spending the week at Sara’s parent’s house. With Sara gone, I would have had to take Ari out there each day and pick him up each night as he slept. It was decided it would be best to leave him alone most nights and for me just to visit him [...]
Posted in TV Shows on Jun 24th, 2006
I talked before about some of the problems with the show Ruby and Max.
Here is what just happened in this episode. Ruby is trying to earn some Bunny Scout (think Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts, but for bunnies, sorry Anya) badges. She is working with her friend on learning the first aid merit badge. When it comes [...]
Posted in General on Jun 23rd, 2006
I don’t think I said it yet, but the air conditioning here is finally fixed. Just in time for Sara’s return Sunday.
One has to wonder what the developer or publisher was thinking, but the new Left Behind: Eternal Forces computer game install spyware on your computer… a very anti-Christ like move… as the game watches everything you do in the game and reports it back to the ad-server, including information about you and where you live, [...]
As if we needed more proof that Congress has no idea what is going on in the real world, Jon Stewart poked fun at the House of Representatives waste of tax payer dollars, hearings on the effects of video games on children. Check it out the clip at Comedy Central. Most shocking at the end [...]
Thinking about getting a HD-DVD player, or the recently launched Blu-ray player? Just hold your horses. None of the players currently on the market support HDMI 1.3, which is essential to getting the absolute best in audio and video from a player. The first High Definition player to feature it will likely be Sony’s Playstation [...]
There is yet another new Grow game online. Once again the goal is to put the items on the board in the correct order so that everything maxis out. I did this one in about 15 minutes without notes. For example put the Tube on the board first, and after it grows legs (after placing [...]
Variety is reporting that Laurence Shames is the author of the Lost tie-in book Bad Twin. They also report that the show’s staffers are not-overly pleased with the way some of the stuff went, making it hard for them to tie-in some of the stuff from the book. So there we go, it isn’t Stephen [...]
The announcement that the original Star Wars trilogy would come out soon was dampered some by the fact that it isn’t going to be a good transfer, but the old Laser Disk transfer, meaning it won’t be anamorphic widescreen. Still, I’ll buy it just to see Han Shoot first… well shoot since Greedo didn’t shoot [...]
Posted in General on Jun 18th, 2006
I forgot it was Father’s Day until my mom called me and wished me Happy Father’s Day, at which point I called my dad, Tom and my grandpa. Happy father’s day to all the father’s out there.
Posted in CSharp, Programming on Jun 18th, 2006
I just did the first part of Exercise 6-1 in Murach’s C# 2005, and while I had read the part earlier about Refactoring, it didn’t hit me at how very cool this part of refactoring is until I actually did it. It is an amazing time saver, and can undoubtedly make for far neater, reusable, [...]
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Harper Fiction) by Gregory Maguire