April 2006 - Posts

Atlas Shrugged movie in the works

Published 04-27-2006 10:38 PM | Mark

For years I've heard talk of Atlas Shrugged becoming a mini-series. But now, according to Variety , it looks like Lion's Gate has commited to adapting Rand's seminal novel into a two part film. I remember thinking that the scene in which Reardon's train...

Filed under: Movies, Books

Down with Net Neutrality!

Published 04-26-2006 10:54 PM | Mark

Mark Cuban lays it out: Medical and home diagnostic applications require bandwidth. They also require a quality of service that cant be interrupted because little Johnny down the road is trying to download the entire NBC schedule for his freshman highschool...

Filed under: Politics, Current Events

Dinking around again

Published 04-26-2006 9:37 PM | Mark

My old custom template had some technical issues, so I'll be playing around with the default ones for a while. Also, there's been a few technical issues with the site and with CS in general that are not yet completely resolved. So, there's a bit of an...

A Gun Extravaganza

Published 04-23-2006 3:32 PM | Mark

Mary and I visited my old college buddy Kiah this weekend and shot some serious guns. The photos are online here. There were maybe 15 people there, most of whom brought some kind of firepower with them. The highlight - for me - was Kiah's M4, which is...

Tool returns

Published 04-18-2006 9:40 PM | Mark

with the album 10,000 Days , which is released on May 2nd. I am beyond excited; what I feel is more like rapture. Tool's previous two albums, Aenima and Lateralus , pushed progressive rock to previously undreamed levels. But to even label Tool as "prog...

Filed under: Current Events

Big man with a gun

Published 04-17-2006 9:52 AM | Mark

I was able to fire a couple hundred rounds or so from my new gun this weekend. Chad and Jenn took Mary and I out to Chad's property up north and we set up a little pistol range, using human sillhouette targets tacked to a frame. Jenn had a Ruger .45 that...

Testing new web server

Published 04-16-2006 11:56 AM | Mark

I've migrated the CS database over to the new web server and everything looks ready to roll. Just testing out permissions before I make the change final... Update: everything looks great! Let me know if you see any problems, I am sure there's still a...

While I'm on the gun theme...

Published 04-13-2006 10:40 PM | Mark

Here's a video of a DEA agent shooting himself in the foot while proclaiming his mastery over weapons to a group of children. Apparently this has made the rounds before, but I've never seen it and it is such pure irony that it approaches the level of...

How I plan to spend the summer

Published 04-11-2006 10:33 PM | Mark

Yes, I bought the Browning Buck Mark Camper. Got it from the Kittery Trading Post , which has a pretty incredible selection of guns. I'm looking forward to firing a hell of a lot of bullets from it this coming weekend.

George Reisman on Environmentalism

Published 04-10-2006 7:23 PM | Mark

Environmentalism is the new communism. Take two concepts. 1. Human activity is causing global warming. 2. The government must restrict the human activity that causes global warming. Let us say, for the sake of argument, that the first is true. The second...

Filed under: Politics, Current Events

With a Gun

Published 04-09-2006 9:35 PM | Mark

I could be wrong but I have seen your face before You were the man that I saw running from the store You owed him money but you gave him something more With a Gun With a Gun You will be what you are just the same Did you pay the other man with the piece...

Still on the Oblivion kick

Published 04-07-2006 3:02 PM | Mark

to the detriment of everything else. I'm finding the Radiant AI more impressive now that I've been exposed to it longer. Here's a nice little Radiant AI story for ya: I took a house key off the corpse of a man I killed (for good reason, of course). I...

Filed under: Video Games

Letting the users do the work

Published 04-03-2006 4:44 PM | Mark

I was reading this Forbes article about how Google ads is helping to spawn a new generation of startups that seek to make a profit solely from the exertions of their users. Digg.com, for example, is an entirely user-edited geek news site, requiring no...

Filed under: Video Games

Daily piano music

Published 04-01-2006 1:12 PM | Mark

Check out this blog . Eric Barnhill is a pianist who posts, nearly every day, free improvisational pieces. I am listening to Exuberance right now and its quite good.