Speculative Vision

The fireplace's perpetual roaring stops suddenly and is replaced by a crackling sound of tortured ice crystalizing around the still red hot bricks that upon closer inspection have the deeply impressed logo "WB". The mantle which proudly proclaimed "Fire supplied by the pits of hell" is obscured by t...

May 8th 1998 and reposted here about 10 years later The original post was lamenting the September effect and how during rapid growth the nuevo majority soon overwhelm the old guard and their traditions. We're a few generations beyond that now I'm suppose I use a nested structure to my bookmarks (bro...

In the cloud there was a duplicate of a hard drive that was a backup from a core i5 (4.2Ghz) that had a backup from a hard drive once installed in an E5400 (2.7) that happened to have a backup from a core2duo (3.33) that held a backup of an old celeron D356 (3.33) that had a backup of an AMD Thunder...

WB, Astaire! Astute comment on the sign of the times. I had just spent some time elsewhere going through the same ol discussion about board owners limiting content creators and the soap operas that always ensue. When I was done rummaging back in time I thought some here might get a kick out of seei...

In a box there was a hard drive that was a backup of an old celeron D356 (3.33Ghz) that had a backup of an AMD Thunderbird (800) that had a backup of a K6-III (450) that had a backup of a P55C (200) that started life as an overclocked Pentium 60 (120Mhz) that had some saved posts on it from: Board: ...

Lost a battle with illness diagnosed over a year ago, ah well.

Perhaps the 12th book may yet be finished.

http://dragonmount.com

Since my memory seems to resemble a sponge, (in the holey way, not in the soak up way) sometimes a reread can hold my attention. But sometimes I find myself skimming along over the pages and lose interest, so is it any wonder that the books I reread are precisely those that I currently find most int...

At first I was thinking it was about television and its restless ever increasing pace of presenting brain numbifying flash-bang content, but then I thought It could be you having read the books previously, and now plot twists are known in advance, but then With the passage of time, what was once ama...

Just look at slashdot today, there are articles on how: Apple is trying for a patent on how code is protected, Sony is under fire for flailing around with its rootkit perhaps trying to push back at iTunes and leaving music bands and listeners victimized, scientists and universities are having patent...

on an internet surfabout (kind of like an austrailian walkabout I suppose) Astaire dusts off some little used links moldering in a folder on the 'ol hard drive...... Just like me to get caught up in lurking, er reading (yeah thats it!) a several month old topic but, wow the insights posted here into...