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Shouting in a Void: January 2007
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Shouting in a Void. Wednesday, January 31, 2007. The monster drops 15 silver pieces of taxable income. Speaking of the game, I recently heard an argument that I find a little disturbing, if sensible. The argument goes like this: at some point in the future, it's very likely that virtual property, stuff you acquire in virtual worlds like the game I play, will be taxed by our real-world governments. How, you ask, can a government reasonably expect to collect real money from non-physical property? So now yo...
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Shouting in a Void: March 2007
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Shouting in a Void. Tuesday, March 20, 2007. Somebody remind Uncle Buzz. Friendly reminder: I'm told that the official moment of the vernal equinox, which is the start of Spring here in the lovely Northern hemisphere, is tonight around 8 Eastern time. Please note again that this is not to be confused with the. Which is the beginning of Summer and happens around June 21st. Buzz Aldrin, I am looking at you. Thanks to the interesting (some would say wacky) mind of Erin. Check out the Wikipedia entry. Anyway...
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Shouting in a Void: July 2007
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Shouting in a Void. Tuesday, July 24, 2007. You can't make me, nyaaah. Mmkay So, last week we had this. Essentially, Congress got annoyed at the President and his people over their stonewalling on the US Attorney firings bit. Congress instituted contempt of Congress proceedings against some people in the administration, which would be investigated/prosecuted by the Justice Department. That's the way that's supposed to work. The President said, no, that can't happen. Well, more to the point I think, he sa...
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Shouting in a Void: April 2007
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Shouting in a Void. Tuesday, April 17, 2007. Oh, for the love of Charlton Heston. In all the coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting, all the people expressing their horror at the tragedy, this quote from Bush spokeswoman Dana Perino jumped out at me:. The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed," Perino said. What is the purpose of Bush issuing a statement like that? To help and comfort people in a time of tragedy, right? I don't want this!
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Shouting in a Void: May 2007
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Shouting in a Void. Thursday, May 31, 2007. They really did that? The intrepid Pete pointed me to this. NYT article, dealing with a recent Supreme Court decision. The back story here is that a female management-level employee at a particular Goodyear plant had been paid less than her colleagues for twenty years. Having finally found this out, she sued her employer under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the intent of which was to prevent employers from discriminating thusly. Meaning, after the d...
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Shouting in a Void: December 2006
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Shouting in a Void. Thursday, December 28, 2006. A preposition is a horrible thing to end a sentence with. If I use my old computer to prop open my door (which is about all the good it is), then doesn't that make it a doorstop? Except for this: if I were to examine that sentence without regard to what is or isn't supposed to happen, I would come to the conclusion that "into" is used as an adverb there. It seems to be modifying the verb "go.". I'd say, then, that to claim "The language is now used this wa...
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Shouting in a Void: February 2007
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Shouting in a Void. Monday, February 12, 2007. An interjection starts the sentence right. Fair warning: half-baked hypotheses and uninformed drivel are sure to follow. I'm writing it anyway, because I can. For the most part, other parts of speech can't be used that way, to themselves convey all the meaning you need. Other parts of speech mostly depend on other words and syntax to get the meaning across. But not interjections. So why does that interest me? So how do the other creatures communicate? Now le...
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Shouting in a Void: November 2006
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Shouting in a Void. Wednesday, November 22, 2006. It's here it's here! So, my new computer got built and delivered in better time than expected. This is a Dell Dimension 9200 with a 2.13 GHz Core2 Duo, 2 GB of memory, and GeForce 7900 video. The 20-inch wide-screen LCD they threw in with the thing also isn't bad. Anyway, I'm very happy that I get to play with it over the long weekend, since it'll likely take me the entire time to install all the stuff I want on there. All I got done last night was th...
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Shouting in a Void: June 2007
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Shouting in a Void. Tuesday, June 12, 2007. Mr Freud.paging Mr. Sigmund Freud. I had a dream last night where I discovered this two-inch-deep chasm across my torso, from lower left to upper right. When I poked around in it, I discovered shelf fungus growing in it, like grows on trees. Also, I was jamming with a band with Jennifer Aniston on vocals. We played Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter." Jennifer only knew the first verse, so I was trying to write the lyrics down for her while I was playing.
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Shouting in a Void: October 2006
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Shouting in a Void. Tuesday, October 31, 2006. Coolest. Pictures. Ever. Coming in to work this morning I was listening to NPR, and I heard that NASA had reconsidered its position that using one of the remaining shuttles to service the Hubble Space Telescope was too dangerous, and that a servicing mission was indeed going to happen. Sure enough, MSN agrees. Are so, so pretty.) And is it at all practical? I get that NASA really needs the shuttle program, and that they spent a lot of time and resources tryi...
