Michael Martine |
The Personal Blog of Michael Martine |
I don't know what the deal is, but I just cannot get enough of this song. The video absolutely kills it. I don't think it's an accident at all there's a touch of Debbie Harry in her look. I've seen other pics where she's riffing off of Bowie's old Ziggy Stardust lightning bolt makeup. I am simply giving in to the GaGa, I guess.
You may have heard the term "singularity." What is it? Could it be real? Ray Kurzweil, the inventor of the musical synthesizer and more, has been pushing this idea of a technological singularity for some time, now. It's beginning to catch on. Once you understand it, you will probably afraid of it--or you hope it happens during your own lifetime.
Grant & Clay Griffiths and me are the guys behind Headway (the new version of which is now available--wait till you see it!)
The weather was blustery and wet, getting rain drops on the camera lens. Photographer, I am not, but these will give you some idea of what I wandered around looking at while working off steam at my crapped out internet connection. Luckily, that situation was resolved nicely by getting a different room that ended up being more like what I wanted anyway: a smoking room with a desk, so I can relax, puff on my pipe, and get some work done.
I knew exactly nothing about New York City. Seriously, my ignorance is profound. I don't know the Burroughs or where they are. Everything I "know" about New York comes from movies, TV shows, and books.
This isn't the first time I've played with Linux. I briefly toyed with it a few years ago, and put it back on the shelf as not worth the time and learning curve. I'm a geek, but I'm not a hardcore programmer-type geek. And Linux wasn't ready for prime time, then. But now, I can install it without a hitch and get going quickly. I am enough of a nerd to navigate the familiar-but-different environment, and I'm learning fast as I go. A good book helps. I know there's help online, but I still find a good reference manual to be invaluable. I'm using Beginning Ubuntu Linux from Apress.
Right now I'm running Ubuntu on an older Celeron M laptop, and it runs WAY faster than Vista did. My next step is to try it out on another laptop that had problems with Vista, and then set up my big machine (quad core, 8gb ram) to dual-boot Win 7 and Ubuntu. Then we'll see if I can get along entirely without Windows and most proprietary software at all. Something tells me it wont' be too hard. One thing that is really thrilling is all the incredible open source software out there, from games to computer animation and graphics, to office stuff (already familiar with OpenOffice).Friends have been hammering me for years to get a Mac, get a Mac, get a Mac. But I think I might just jump right down the throat of the open source dragon. No license fees, ever, and I can put the software on as many systems as I want. That's sovereignty and freedom to me. Whoever understands and controls the tech in their lives, nowadays, has a hell of a lot more freedom than those who don't. Knowledge is indeed power. <end>
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