Happy Birthday Eric Clark! And if you missed it the first time your icon is about a few days back or you can just go here to get it.

Sweet, it only took me this long to get the system back to the way it was, with correct partitioning and working mplayer with gui and firefox plugin.

I'm learnding!

Apparently screwing up partitioning can screw up your OS...

starting again!

So if I am hammered enough by indoctornation even I can turn into a professional killer? Is this the way of the military?

Well Starship Troopers turned out to be the grand daddy of all mecha/powered suit/ future warfare type sci-fi material. Practically every mecha anime/ computer game/ book owes a small debt to Heinlen. All the basis of realistic, quick, mecha combat are all here in this book. I can see why mecha enthusist hold this book in such high regard. It is a pretty big commentary on the military-industrial complex and their attempt to take over our minds and turn us into soldiers. The film was not very well done when compared to this book. Well that is hollywood for you.

thanks Alison. now i just have to get booked off work.

American UFO?
from technologist, Clive Thompson.

so, details for Par, Andy and Eric:

Audrey's Literary Salon presents:
Douglas Coupland introducing his new novel Eleanor Rigby
7:30 pm @ The Paramount on Jasper 10233 Jasper Ave.
Monday January 10, 2005

tickets were $5.00

(so anyone else interested, Audreys (107th street and Jasper Ave) still has a couple hundred of tickets if you think you'd like to join us... And it's all general admission)

Insofar as these terms have been (mis)applied to sports, is there a more hyperbolic term to describe a soccer match between Portugal and Canada than "massacre"?

Do you guys just want to meet at the BP's on Calgary Trail?

Never mind, my bad. It's at 6.