Dan and I recently saw Flightplan. Fairly good, though the amount of unused space in the “E474″ jet aircraft was unbelievable to the point of absurdity.
This weekend I saw A History of Violence. Most of Cronenberg’s films are quite bizarre (e.g., eXistenZ, Naked Lunch, Videodrome, Scanners), but I like that. AHoV is [...]

A Nonpareil user asked about keyboard mapping for the 41C/CV/CX ON, USER, PRGM, ALPHA, shift (gold), SST, and R/S keys. All keyboard mappings are user-configurable in the KML file, but setting them properly is tricky. Until now, you had to know GDK’s host keyboard keysym number (called “scancode” in the KML file), and [...]

I was out of town to attend a conference, or maybe on a vacation. There was a gubernatorial election while I was there, and it happened that my own appearance was very similar to that of the incumbent governor except for my hair color. I woke up one morning, and didn’t notice it [...]

The Guardian article Fuel’s paradise? Power source that turns physics on its head describes an invention by Dr. Randell Mills which would appear to violate currently accepted quantum theory. It is claimed that some independent scientists have verified Dr. Mill’s experiments, but apparently detailed information is not yet available for public review.
The article quotes [...]