Let me preface this by saying I am a gun owner. I like shooting as a sport. I've previously had careers that involved carrying guns and occasionally employing deadly force. I understand that guns are not something to be taken lightly. Thus, take what I am about to say with the same sense of "that
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Sordid Details of the Rich and Special I caught this story on the bus this morning. Apparently there was a huge trove of documents detailing the workings of around 120,000 off shore shell companies and trust accounts detailing over 30 years of activity that were dumped recently. The folks at the ICIJ – the International [...]
April 4, 2013 | media
What follows is an exceptionally pedantic rant about something ultimately inconsequential. I should know better, but when has that ever stopped me? People use ‘quantum’ as if it means almost the opposite of its actual definition. The blame for that probably belongs to an NBC producer in the late 1980s. However, since I haven’t blamed [...]
I both love public media and company-wide email discussions. Today I was abusing company-wide emailing authority to send out the latest PBS OffBook video on 3D Printing. As a snarky aside, I mentioned that people should watch the video because their tax dollars paid for it. A developer quickly responded with a link to the [...]
February 28, 2013 | media, technology
Know why I love being an American? I can simultaneously worry about Orson Scott Card’s homophobia impacting a two-issue run of Superman and get excited about the movie version of Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game.
February 20, 2013 | media
Let me preface this by saying I am a gun owner. I like shooting as a sport. I’ve previously had careers that involved carrying guns and occasionally employing deadly force. I understand that guns are not something to be taken lightly. Thus, take what I am about to say with the same sense of “that [...]
I realized this morning that I spend way too much time thinking about robots. I don’t just mean the fun robots like the droids from Star Wars. Or how I really really want a Roomba. Or watching movies and tv shows about robots in them. Or reading a lot of sci fi. I mean big [...]
December 12, 2012 | technology
In Which Bradley Writes A Laymen Patent As A Means of Bitching About Something Glasshouse Preface I make typos. Frequently. Epically. There are probably going to be several in this post. What follows is not a chastisement of manmade typos, but rather a system for removing machine-made ones. Author Preface I am a big fan [...]
November 28, 2012 | Intellectual Property, technology
You might be shocked, shocked!, to find that I’m not really a fan of Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly. So, I took a measure of joy when his book Killing Lincoln was banned from sale in Ford’s Theatre due to “lack of documentation and the factual errors within the publication.” I took even more pleasure when [...]
O. Henry was the pen name used by musician, cartographer, writer and embezzler William Sydney Porter. Dead for more than a century, O. Henry’s reputation still lives thanks largely to one short story – The Gift of the Magi. Like so many of my generation, and I assume the two or so before, I was [...]
I have a problem. When I see people walking with instrument cases, I automatically assume they are hiding weapons in them. Guns, knives, swords. Maybe some of them are even carrying guitar-shaped crossbows. This probably stems from too many pulp stories as a kid. Perhaps it’s from Mexican cinema. But, I find this assumption affecting [...]
July 11, 2012 | life
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