No, this isn’t some post about a Monty Python skit. This is about spam with a lower-case “s.” The kind that seems to flood every e-mail in-box across the planet, and of late, this backwater blog site.
I understand that most of the spam posting is automated, but still, at some point some human somewhere on the globe had to go, “thedailybizarre.com, hell yeah, let’s keep that site on the spam list.”
I came across an article yesterday on IBM’s new supercomputer, Watson. This computer has been trained to play Jeopardy!.
Yes, you read that correctly, it can play the TV “phrase your answer in the form of a question” game. And it plays it pretty well for a machine. [Read the rest of this entry...]
This last Saturday evening was w00tstock 2.1 at the Aladdin Theater in Portland, Oregon. We drove up from Salem and fought the Portland traffic and managed to find a parking spot close enough that we didn’t need a Sherpa and support crew with about a half hour to spare.
The post icon this time is the event poster that they gave out, be warned that if you click the picture (or any others in this post) it will download a hi-res (read “friggin’ huge”) version of the thumbnail image.
In the circles I travel, if you mention “Greek Dog” the first thing that comes to mind is usually Cerberus.
This time, however, I came across this story today about a dog that has been seen at many Greek protests over the last couple of years.
With the government spending money like a meth addict with a stolen credit card, I’ve seen all sorts of predictions one way or another as to how this will all turn out.
One side says the unicorns and rainbows are on the way, and just the “rich” will pay for it. The other side says everyone is hosed and the inevitable VAT will be the final nail in our collective coffin.
Book number twelve of the Dresden Files series came out this last Tuesday. And, I must admit, the book is aptly named.
Jim Butcher was in Beaverton last night at Powell’s books for a book signing. The event was a real treat (and my first book signing) and a great time was had by all.
Just a quick post to wish ol’ Bill a happy birthday today!
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And since it’s his birthday, it’s also the Second Annual International Talk Like William Shatner day (some NSFW language). So don’t forget, let’s all talk like the Shat.
It looks like the national health-care debacle is finally coming to a head, they’re pushing to have a vote (and I use that term very loosely) for this Sunday.
After watching this process for the last few months, I’ve come the conclusion that I never really knew how our government runs. To quote Lily Tomlin, no matter how cynical you get, it’s impossible to keep up.
Phil Harris of Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch program died recently. The Internet has been full of supportive posts to his family so I won’t go into detail here. Although, if you would like to express your condolences to his family, there is a thread over on Discovery’s forum where you may do so (it’s up to almost 400 pages as I write this).
What prompted me to post here today, is a remembrance thread that Mike “Mr. Voice Over” Rowe from Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs made on his MikeRoweWorks.com site.
I read today that President Obama submitted his budget and I was saddened to see that he cut NASA’s funding for the return to the moon.
I understand that the country’s out of money, and that there are programs that benifit other things but I think people tend to underestimate the science return that NASA gives us, let alone the much-needed spark of imagination and wonder that our current crop of children so desperately need.
