Wow! Lots of PMs and tweets regarding yesterday’s article on what would happen with the collapse of the grid . Let me first say that I make no claims to be an expert on EMP.  There are a lot of people who are convinced that a reasonably strong EMP would disable modern cars.   I don’t happen to agree with that view. Hopefully we’ll never find out. I’m going to assume that the most likely doomsday scenario people will likely face will be a long-term power...

We went to the reptile show this weekend.  We picked up a male and female Panther Chameleon.  The female, I believe is already ready to lay eggs. So I’m scrambling (no pun intended) to learn how to deal with that.       So the male (left) is like a peacock. It’s all colorful and impressive to attract females.  The female (right) I think is pregnant.  The question is how to tell if she’s ready to lay eggs or not.

I was on this week’s episode of Windows Weekly with Mary Jo Foley, Leo Laporte and Ed Bott. You can listen to our antics here: http://twit.tv/show/windows-weekly/323

Been playing a lot of Company of Heroes lately.  One feature I really really like is the Automatch  vs. AI feature.  So it gathers a random group to go up against a set of AI players. It’s remarkably fun. Anyone have this yet? What are your thoughts?

I so do love the Internet. I really do.  Only on the Internet can “some guy” tell you how you should be doing a job that you have obviously succeeded at far beyond their wildest dreams.

Ok, saw this.  Was surprisingly good. 3.5 out of 5. Much better than the original Wolverine Origin movie.  Have you seen it? What do you think?

My gift and curse is that I don’t require a “normal” amount of sleep. After 4 or so hours, I wake up, full of energy for the next day.  It’s come in handy when it comes to being productive but it's gotten me into a lot of trouble as well as I can almost always respond more in a “debate” than someone else giving the impression that I’m obsessing on something when in fact I just have…well, more time available to invest in something. With that introduction, let me introduce you to one of...

  There's a great line in Atlas Shrugs that goes like this: "You concluded I was the safest person in the world to spit on because I have power over you and that I would be tied by the fear of hurting your feelings by reminding you of it." Our society seems to have taken that view en-masse in recent years.

  Hi all! As some of you know, Draginol is my “alt” handle here for Frogboy. Anyway, this week I was on PolyCast, a popular Civilization-related podcast and this episode focused heavily on the upcoming Civilization V expansion “Brave New World”. Feel free to check it out here: http://civcomm.civfanatics.com/polycast/polycast/season7/episode176.mp3 You can see other episodes here: http://civcomm.civfanatics.com/polycast/polycast/season7.php

  The technological singularity is defined to be the point in which technological progress is increasing at a rate that human level intelligence can no longer predict what will come next. We are closer to that time than most people think. There are a lot of technologies most people expect to happen that I don’t think will happen or, if they do happen, will be relevant for a startling short amount of time. For example, strong AI.  My day programming job is AI (for ga...

As discussed here , the climate models that predicted a rapidly warming earth continue to be way way off.   The measured results and the projected results are way off. I’ve received a lot of grief over the years from friends, family and colleagues because I’m a global warming “skeptic” (particularly about AGW).  Now mind you, I drive an electric car powered by a solar array and live in a house heated and cooled through Geothermal and had a gold rating from ...

Recently I was involved in a discussion regarding the two Boston Marathon bombers.  It started off with someone expressing concern about the amount of anger and hatred being directed towards the bombers. I am dismayed and afraid about the amount of hate and vengeance for the two who planted the bombs. It is spreading the attitude of vengeance in our country. I saw a quote from Ghandi this morning which I have not verified, but it struck me as true. "An eye for an eye will make...

Is to connect super talented people together and get the hell out of their way.  I am continually amazed at how much these guys/gals are able to do with so little. 2012 was a pretty awesome year but 2013 is looking to be insane.

Found this video here: Even being familiar with the stats, it was a really fascinating and well put together illustration of the massive level of inequality in wealth we have in the United States. I have two fundamental criticisms with it. First, knowledge isn’t understanding. That is, the author gives me the impression that he thinks wealth is “distributed” by some..entity. That somehow wealth is being divied up by some sort of directed intelligence and that we,...

I’ve taken tests like this before. Very interesting to see where people end up. Here’s the test: http://www.politicalcompass.org/test Technorati Tags: Brad Wardell , Political Compass , Draginol , Ideology My result: http://www.politicalcompass.org/printablegraph?ec=1.00&soc=-3.18