Once again, I’m considering NaNoWriMo. If you don’t know what that is, check the link then come back. If you do know what it is, you realize one considers it much as one contemplates getting married, buying a house, or committing suicide. Oh, the hubris! 50,000 words. Try not to think of all those zeros…. Read more »
Author: Eric
I'm a writer, video editor, foodie, and geek.
Ode to Wally-World
Five pairs of dress socks… check. New reasonably priced leather shoes… check. Off brand tortilla chips (they taste better)… check. Damn! No souse. OK, put the liver pudding back. Cheap sliced summer sausage (beef)… check. Four spicy Bowl Noodles… check. Trailer trash white girl in grey sweats (you know you’d hit it!)… check! One pound… Read more »
Tweaker’s Delight: Optimizing Vista
Change is inevitable. If you’re really blessed, improvement comes with change. It’s a highly debatable concept when the change being discussed is one’s operating system. No stranger to change, (for better or worse), Microsoft kept the computing world at bay until January 2007, when Bill and Company sprang Vista onto the general public. Eagerly awaiting… Read more »
Fall’s Second Coming
Cool, dry air greeted me as I stepped outside yesterday morning. That’s always a good thing in the dirty, and HOT south. After a brief glimpse of how sweet North Carolina Fall can be, a brutish return to summer temperatures held us captive for a couple of weeks. But patience is a virtue, and the… Read more »
EB Salutes You Tube: Lydia
There’s no denying the effect You Tube has had on the creation and distribution of user generated media. Lonelygirl15, the HD-DVD encryption hack, and Chocolate Rain are three of the more notable instances of You Tube media achieving phenom status. But it’s the wide variety of music that keeps me coming back to the site…. Read more »
Free (as in Speech)
Been gone a bit handling family stuff and suffering a temporary internet outage. While I told myself I’d shy away from posting the typical “bloggy” kinds of personal detritus, I absolutely miss the clacky-clack sound of my fingers hitting the keys. I’ve also kicked a few ideas for posts around in my head. Feels like… Read more »
Like a Box of Chocolates
Bill O’Reilly is a twat. That’s all I have to say about that.
Never Mind the Mile High Club
The unusual things that parents must protect their children from never cease to amaze me. Maybe that’s because I don’t have kids… anyway, now this: R-rated movies wallpapering the insides of commercial airplanes. Eeek! Mommy why did that scary man cut off the pretty lady’s head?! There’s no excusing parents that have a choice and… Read more »
Choose Your Battles
This Salon article about an MIT student arrested for a hoax bomb threat is disturbing. What disturbs me about it is how some people interpret the event. Without doubt, many will view the occasion as an example of our disappearing freedoms. But freedom and responsibility are joined at the hip. Any discussion of individual rights… Read more »
Rissi Palmer Puts the Soul in Country
Rissi Palmer teeters on the precipitous edge of a breakthrough. No, she hasn’t discovered the cure for cancer. Well, maybe she has. Rissi Palmer is a country singer. Understand that last sentence. Rissi Palmer sings country. What I heard is definitely fresh, but her country roots are unmistakable. And her music refuses to wallow in… Read more »