Homage To Icarus

Some ran­dom thoughts to com­mem­o­rate the blog retitling/redesign: Primitivism is Bullshit It may be inescapable at this point, all chances for decent evo­lu­tion hav­ing been squan­dered on jet-into-building porn, but going back to pil­ing mud is bull­shit, I don’t care how egal­i­tar­ian the mud-piling com­mune is. This thought, wrung dry, is the inspi­ra­tion for the …

Changing Gears

I’m done blog­ging par­tic­u­larly on pol­i­tics. I’m done because (essen­tially) all polit­i­cal blogs are turn­ing into the minor leagues of pun­ditry, let­ting pro­pa­gan­dists hone their craft before being wran­gled, branded, and paid to use those same skills as the future Priesthoods of Power. This is not a con­test between the two par­ties, this is simply …

UPS, Progress, Ooops

So I splurged on a new UPS Saturday, an APC Back-UPS RS 1500 — hope­fully it’ll work, it’s been charg­ing so-far, and hope­fully the con­troller soft­ware works under Ubuntu. I have an UPS already, but it’s under­pow­ered for my sys­tem. So when the guy next door turns on his (fire-code vio­lat­ing) microwave, it flux­u­ates the power just …

Avast!

Hopefully, this is the start of a new trend that will solve the cli­mate change issue with­out resort­ing to some type of lim­its being placed on Freedom™. At least, that would seem to be the log­i­cal pol­icy con­clu­sion accord­ing to Luis’ new-ish reli­gion. I also added Captcha – style ver­i­fi­ca­tion to my blog com­ments. I’m truly sorry …