In defense of baseball.

No, there is no “War on Baseball”(tm).  Despite the recent steroid scandal which has put a big question mark on the current generation of players, the game itself needs no defending, especially from someone as insignificant as this blogger. 
But my blogger pal at Infinity Ranch recently came out of the closet as a baseball-hater, [...]

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Shed some Dark on your ideas.

If you are a creative writing type you should check out a program called Dark Room.  It’s a free little word processor that basically turns your entire screen into a blank page for you to type on.  No menu bars, no icons — nothing but “you and your text,” as the website says.

It’s reminiscent [...]

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Don’t start any long books.

The latest earth doomsday prophesy comes from a climatologist named James Lovelock, who is getting some press (in Britain, at least) for his claim that by the year 2040 the “world population of more than six billion will have been culled by floods, drought and famine.”
Lovelock claims that it’s too late to do anything about [...]

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So, tell us how you really feel.

With all due respect to The Film Geek, this review of Meet The Spartans is one of the greatest movie reviews I’ve ever encountered. 
You have no idea how much I hated this film and the fact that it’s already been number one in the US Box office gives me little hope for the human [...]

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Taking aim at the news.

One of my biggest pet peeves in this life is the fear-mongering and misleading news media.  It has been years since I’ve been able to stomach local or national television news.  The “What you don’t know could be deadly to your family!” mentality of spreading needless fear in exchange for ratings is repulsive but rampant.  [...]

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My computer woes continue. A dying Mac and another run at Linux.

My Mac mini(TM), the little computer that could, has turned into the little computer that won’t. It is dying a slow death.
The mini was my first foray into the world of Mac. And it shall be my last.
I’d always been curious about Macs but could never afford one. Along came the mini, [...]

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Avast! There be gray area ahead!

Recently my VCR (yeah, I still have one) ate and destroyed a VHS tape that I purchased years ago.  That particular movie isn’t available on DVD in the US yet and I have no desire to scour Ebay for a used copy on VHS. 
So I donned my eye patch, downloaded a ripped copy of [...]

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Countdown to Linux launch. All systems g… Uh, hold on.

I’m not a complete stranger to Linux.  I couldn’t wear my “Geek” badge in good conscious if I were.  Knoppix, a distribution of Linux designed to be run from a boot disc without disturbing your original OS, has become my favorite method of rescuing files or accessing an otherwise hosed computer.
But I’d never installed Linux [...]

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It’s hard to believe such a calamity.

My wife and daughter left town for the weekend, leaving me with the house all to myself and a couple of days with which to do whatever I please.  Whenever this happens my first reaction is a Mel-Gibson-as-William-Wallace-esque “Freedom!” 
Then reality sets in as I try to think of what to do with that freedom [...]

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From the DU Obvious file: Bush on the economy.

President Bush said today that “it’s clear our economy has slowed.”
The President went on to say that 8-track tapes are “on their way out.”

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