My superpower is indifference. Indifference is the soporific that lets my inner beast nap in peace. Without it I would have long since turned into a murdering psychopath, but I remain calm, rational, nearly ethereal, as I proudly ignore the unhinged idiocy of my fellow human beings. I prize my detachment, my don't-give-a-shit-ness, my lordly … Continue reading Books to Ignore
Category: Reviews
King Hobbit Kong
The pre-Hobbit hum was not harmonious. It started with the interminable legal battle over who would direct the Hobbit and how to split any spoils. After Peter Jackson's cinematic Lord of the Rings triumph people assumed he would be The Hobbit guy but an envious and embittered clique of Tolkien's heirs felt the weren't getting … Continue reading King Hobbit Kong
JHS meets MathJax
With the release of J 7.01 Jsoftware "deprecated" COM. J 6.02 can run as a COM automation server but J 7.01 cannot.3 Throwing COM under the bus is hardly radical. Microsoft, COM's creator, has been holding COM's head underwater for years. Many .Net programmers cringe when they hear the word "COM" and the greater nonwindows1 … Continue reading JHS meets MathJax
Git me a Hub’bery
Sometime ago I crossed my machine synchronization threshold. I routinely work on four operating systems, three laptops, a few servers, a bunch of phones and so on. I synchronized the directories I cared about while forming deep and rewarding relationships with file sharing services like Dropbox. Dropbox is great but its success has attracted the … Continue reading Git me a Hub’bery
Faith a guilty pleasure
Faith Korean TV It’s a quiet Labor Day weekend in the drivel dome1 and your fearless reporter is a tad bored. I could help with the housework or get out and exercise but I have better things to do. Last night while trolling the intertubes for something to watch on Hulu I came across a … Continue reading Faith a guilty pleasure
Turn your iPhone into a jPhone
Jsoftware recently released a free J app for the iPhone. Search for “jsoftware” in Apple’s app store and you will land right on it. There are many excellent free iPhone apps, I have half-a-dozen on my iPhone, but this little jewel sets a new standard for power in your palm. Let’s start with the good … Continue reading Turn your iPhone into a jPhone
Ooh Promethean Tentacles
Hey let's wander around in the dark and feed vagina snakes. Prometheus breaks the first rule of movies: don’t make your audience think! Any movie that violates this taboo gets exactly what it deserves and Prometheus is begging for it. Let’s get the good stuff out-of-the-way. Prometheus looks great. It throws up one fabulous tableau … Continue reading Ooh Promethean Tentacles
Evil Queens are getting Hotter
There’s not a lot of good news out there. Our currencies are being sodomized by economic imbeciles. High unemployment has demoralized the masses and forced lobotomized bureaucrats to get off their entitled asses and redefine it. The suck---oops stock---market has returned SFO for a decade. CO2 levels are rising. The seas are not subsiding; they … Continue reading Evil Queens are getting Hotter
Blurb: Nick Lomb’s Transit of Venus
Nick Lomb’s Transit of Venus 1631 to the Present is the best illustrated astronomy book for general readers since Terence Dickinson and Alan Dyer’s The Backyard Astronomer's Guide. Everything about Lomb’s book from its eye seizing cover, rarely seen historic photographs and charming well researched commentary is first class. Transit is the type of work … Continue reading Blurb: Nick Lomb’s Transit of Venus
The Hunger Games: a Libertarian Dead Teenager Movie.
I’ve always enjoyed watching teenagers die. Even when I was a teenager, back in the early Pleistocene, I couldn’t get enough adolescent annihilation. Now that I am a certified, some would say certifiable, drooling old fart boomer I enjoy it even more. Youthful folly: it’s riveting entertainment for the elderly. Given my macabre inclinations I … Continue reading The Hunger Games: a Libertarian Dead Teenager Movie.
Analyze the Data not the Drivel 