A Modest Construct

I’m not superstitious, but the Redskins just lost. Yes!

…deux, δύο, due, dois, två, duos, doi, daou, dy, y-ergu, dù, divi, dva, dwa, dvê, dvâ, du, dô, do, deka, dui, ori, sin, hulät, ariyo, róu, hinka, ndi, ni, nyi, cab, and many more.

Basically, 2 years is the anniversary I’m celebrating today.

She’s great.

From The Daily Show and The Daily Kos

FALWELL, speaking of terrorists (Iraqis?): “If it takes 10 years, let’s blow them all away in the name of the Lord.”

What?!

And later:

JACKSON: But those killers came from Afghanistan and bin Laden, who have not been pursued. They did not come from Iraq.

FALWELL:…

My package from Amazon.com arrived today. I was surprised; at a distance, I thought it must be something else. I certainly didn’t order enough to merit a box this big.

The box is over a foot long, almost ten inches wide, and 8.5 inches high.

Yes, I know it’s from March, but 500′000GB hard drives? Yowzah!

With areal density of 6.25TB (Terrabyte) per square inch, 3.5” typical platter would be able to hold up about 49TB of data on one side. Two sides of such platter would handle about 98TB of information. Usually HDDs have from…

ichor runs thick with rust;
a skewed brown light from a speckled star:
a fuscous dusk; a pallor;
a dirty patch of former flowers.
all things —ephemeral— must pass,
and beautiful as birthing is, it’s far too painful to sustain,
suspiring in regret, and rising unattained,
and bare to debile…

Reviewing movies isn’t particularly my thing, but I saw Supersize Me today with my girlfriend and I must admit that it was ridiculously compelling, on a gastrointestinal level, if nothing else.

For those of you too lazy to read about it on IMDb, Supersize Me is an award-winning documentary about handlebar-moustached Morgan Spurlock’s…

{A lack of action in Le Guin’s Omelas}

Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” is a morality play of a rather Stocktonian nature, wherein the readers are asked or merely given a vicarious decision and forced to refer to their own tables of values to find the answer.…

Abou was amazed at the absurdity of Bush supporters. It should really come as no surprise.

Even after the final report of Charles Duelfer to Congress saying that Iraq did not have a significant WMD program, 72% of Bush supporters continue to believe that Iraq had actual WMD (47%) or a major…