Archive for the ‘nerdy geek stuff’ Category

New hardware

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
After some thought, I decided to get a new MacBook Pro. For now, I’ll settle for the pre-installed Ruby, Python, PHP and Java and just install Erlang (try Reia?), Scala, JRuby and Groovy. MacPorts keeps shitting the bed. Something had to go wrong. What fun would there be if it were easy? I’ve been trying 5 [...]

Helping one’s self and helping others

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
I played around with Things, OmniFocus, The Hit List, and a couple other GTD task management apps. They all have features I like and didn’t like. Like Mac vs Windows vs Linux, Star Trek vs Star Wars, Transformers vs GoBots, my sense is they all kind of suck, so which sucks less? Maybe that’s a little [...]

Watching Watchmen

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
I agree with this critic; the ending in the movie is better than the ending in the graphic novel. Heresy, I know. But I’m not a fanboy. This probably would have been better as a mini-series.