Welcome to the Anthropocene…

…the man-made era…
Physorg has an interesting article up titled: “Earth’s soils bear unmistakable footprints of humans”
The article talks about how half of the earth’s soil is being used for cultivation, grazing, or periodical logging…and goes on to question whether we have entered the anthropocene. A good read and–I believe–a good observation.
Future generations–if there are [...]

Asylum Street Spankers Video–very funny–NSFW

Scientology and the free flow of information…

So folks are mad that the cult Scientology has removed video of Tom Cruise embarrassing himself. The scientologists have always been secretive–that is one of the reason they raise such a backlash–the internet and its adherents do not like secrecy.
So now the “Church’s” main sites are under a DDOS attack. For a while [...]

Drive-By Truckers–New Album

My favorite southern rock band, the Drive-By Truckers have just released a new album called Brighter Than Creation’s Dark. It is put out by New West Records.
DBT has been my favorite band for some time now. Their song writing and capturing of American angst is second to none, and this album does not [...]

Fedora 8–Impressions

Impressions–not a review. I finally got around to downloading and installing Fedora 8. Huge download, uneventful install. All of my hardware was detected and set up correctly–normal for this box as I obtained it with Linux in mind. It has an Nvidia video card, I haven’t installed the driver yet–waiting for [...]

Ron Paul Question

Today it is all over the web that Ron Paul had a racist/sexist/generally bad newsletter in the 80s and 90s, the blogs are plastered with quotes regarding it. But what I can’t seem to find is links to PDFs or the originating sites, basically I am asked to trust the news siource/blogger without any [...]

How to win friends and influence users–a rant

Note:  This is a modified version of a post I made on the Linux Mint forums.
Most of those with ties to GNU/Linux want to see usage expand. Many are the reasons that folks make the switch, and rarely is it easy–folks must give up the familiar and take a step into the unknown to make [...]

Who for president?

Since none of the above is not on the ballot…I have an “anybody but Hillary” hope for the democrats and an “anybody but Rudy” for the GOP.
The nice thing about the democractic race is that as Edwards stumbles we seem assured that the dems will nominate either a woman or a black guy–a first and [...]

A New Year–A bit of tiddy-ing.

Another year over and a new one just begun…
Didn’t make it down to AZ for the holiday, but did spend a week at Death Valley–there are very few places to camp in the USA in the mid of winter…
Death Valley was a good experience, a happy holiday spent with family.  Since my dad retired I’ve [...]