Ramblings

You know you’re old when you have aches mostly all over, and you want a higher chair and one of those desks with a under-hung keyboard tray.  Ugh. That and voice dictation that actually works.  Siri, I love you, but you suck.

Le sigh.  It’s that time again.  When I’m going to be on the road for a while and I’m going to need more than 2 GiB of data, and more functionality than what my iPad can offer.  I’m going to need tethering. Unfortunately I have iOS 6 on my iPhone.  So far as I can… Read more

I think the font here on my blog is too big, on my iMac.  But it looks really nicely sized on an iPad.  D’oh. Throughout primary & secondary school I stubbornly stuck with Geneva 9 pt.  Printed, of course… kids today might not know what that means, but when I was growing up the older… Read more

I bought the book Bartending last night, to read before bed. I figured it’d be full of amusing and/or interesting anecdotes, and it would restore my will to live after watching The Hunger Games. The problem is not so much what’s there – it is well enough written, and the stories are interesting, even tending… Read more

There’s a difference between releasing three films in a series and releasing a film in three parts.  Unfortunately, it appears “The Hunger Games” is in the latter category. A surprisingly depressing movie.  It was well produced; it could have had a great ending.  Instead it had… basically nothing.  It’s worse than a “bad” ending because… Read more