Free Online Textbooks

We need more of them.

textbookrevolution.com isn't enough.

there are things going on in the markets...

I wish I was smart and rich enough to play...

I thought credit was an engine of economic growth, creating capital for new firms?

Chicken Chasing

So Katie has these chickens...

which got loose last night.

That was a fun chicken-chase.

We caught them.

Prediction...

Eventually, someone's going to figure out that all these tabbed programs, like IMs and browsers and word processors, should be able to drag tabs back and forth between windows.

Computer desktop workspaces need to go sharable one of these days..

Home... Up and... Well... Not really.

Spent my week bleeding and reading at Katie's. The weekend has come, and I gingerly struck out on my own. Picked up Doktor Sleepless #8. So THAT'S what happened to his parents...

My roommate got an office chair. I'm falling behind the curve.

Thea's picked up a new beau... that's nice.

Twilight Imperium tomorrow. Time to start picking bits out of boxes!

Status report....

I can eat! Feeling surprisingly good. After the cab-ride to caretaker's house, where I produced a prodigious amount of bloody snotspit, I settled into bed and had a nap. She read to me; Deep Space 9 #1 - Emissary. How sweet is that? Anyhow, apparently I can eat real food and just have to avoid bumping this nose, vomiting, and swallowing too much blood.

I can breathe out of my nose about as well as I ever could... so when the swelling and stuff is over, I imagine I'll be two or three times better than when I started. Rockin'!

I'm lucky!

See, despite looking like that on the right, I get good care taken of me.

yeah, but you should see the other guy.

Well, I looked like the photo on the left a few days ago.

Now, I look like the photo on the right.

Going in for Surgery

Going to get a septoplasty, and a turbinectomy. Hopefully this'll help with my sleep apnea. I'm afraid of Empty Nose Syndrome.

Skype

Good program. Too invasive. GO AWAY, little browser plugin!

Added Tumblr, toyed with layout

Well, the videos don't quite line up the way I wanted, but I'll learn proper CSS someday instead of just randomly changing width variables and everything will work out. Until then, I'll do link amalgamation in that little sidebar! Progress!

Now if only I had something to say...

I found an old photo!

I looked like this in 2005.

The one on the left, dummy.

Trying out Google Reader

So... a lot of the links on the right were just weblog links I used frequently.

I've gone and put most of them into Google Reader. Let's see if it sticks. Now I'll have to post actual things here and not just links to other articles.

I'm already annoyed by how some sites (PA, Achewood, looking at you.) don't actually put their content in their RSS feeds. I suppose the ad revenue has to come from somewhere.

Oh, and RepairPal looks really neat... maybe I'll finally take my old-ass Subaru into the shop. That oil leak is starting to seem severe.

The New York Times knows the score...

The Trolls Among Us

Hurry up and sell out, moot.

That, or call the plumber, because the internet's pipes are leaking again.

Are trolls libertarians?

Gamasutra is a great website.

Analysis: Bushido Blade - An Honorable Game

A great article, found on an old associate's game-centered livejournal.

I always loved the simplicity of Bushido Blade. It emphasized my favorite part of fighting games: snap-decisions, and rewarded them heavily. Fights could be over as soon as they started, or be minutes-long, intense, and end with a bang.

This girl is fast...

I find roller derby highly entertaining.

Look how happy I am!

Thanks, Dockyard Derby Dames!

Still Not A Famous Rapper

Maybe next week.

Democratic nominee is out in Europe, having left on a couple sour notes. Republican nominee is establishing himself as tenacious underdog.

I really liked Analysis of the Global War on Terror: Contentious Ground. The question asked is loaded in a rhetorical direction, but the thoughts it spawns occupy me. I don't think we've taken the high ground yet.

Found a hidden community I'd been looking for for a long time, and it was slightly disappointing and less hidden than I expected. Just finishing a quest is worth xp, and it's nice to be in the cool kids' club.

Back From Oregon Country Fair

Back from a hippie festival. Dust sloughing from my Utilikilt, newly gifted to me. In front of my own computer. I think I left my wallet and my phone in an abandoned sack of random items.

Highlights: Tom Noddy, NANDA, shooting stars.

Disappointing: Ann Wright

Now, the week ahead.

Mr. Murdoch Goes to War

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/murdoch

We'll miss you, Wall Street Journal.

What'd you do this weekend?