22 Oct
- The Gaming entry posted on October 22nd, 2007.
Team Fortress 2 is a multiplayer team-based first-person shooter, developed by Valve Corporation as part of the highly acclaimed game compilation The Orange Box.
The lack of information or apparent progress for six years of the game’s development caused it to be labeled as vaporware, and it was regularly featured in Wired News’ annual vaporware list [...]
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
– Charles Lamb
“Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
16 Oct
- The Technology entry posted on October 16th, 2007.
The leopard (Panthera pardus) is an “Old World” mammal of the Felidae family and the smallest of the four “big cats” of the genus Panthera, along with the tiger, lion, and jaguar.
Which is somewhat ironic, considering MacOS X Leopard is packed with superfluously fun stuff that make it bigger and badder than every before.
10 Oct
- The Travel entry posted on October 10th, 2007.
I love hotelling — that is to say, staying in hotels.
“Hotelling”, by definition, is actually a method of supporting unassigned seating in an office environment — sometimes confused with “hot desking”, which is another method of supporting unassigned seating. Hotelling (or hoteling) is reservation based unassigned seating, whereas, hot desking is reservationless unassigned seating.
But I [...]
8 Oct
- The Et Cetera entry posted on October 8th, 2007.
Search engine traffic is funny. The search terms for my Dress Your Girlfriend 2.0 post made me laugh today.
I especially like “how do i ask my girlfriend to wear a schoolgirl outfit” — hah. What are your favorites?
My friend Alison Burkley, surprised me the other day with the news that she had found one my long lost videos.
I shot “Bored in Fort Lauderdale” while driving around with the standard squad in the late night hours downtown years ago. The car, of course, is the Porsche 911 Turbo (993).