mindlace

After seven months of more or less non-stop working like crazy to establish a foothold in Boston and keep up with the exigencies of life, I’m finally to the point where I can pay (some) attention to the work I wanted to do when I arrived.
The work itself is hard to articulate in less than a […]

Note: I have not actually received my Kindle yet. Another post will follow around Dec. 7 when I’ve had it for a day.
Seems like everyone wants to piss on the Kindle for not reading pdf. While that is something I would Really Like™ I looked at this thing and thought “I can get another book after […]

Fossil Fuels are the molecular mummies of photosynthesizers. The primary periods of fossil fuel formation are mass extinction events, particularly the late Paleozoic ( ~ 248 myear ago) and late Mesozoic (~ 65 myear ago). The Paleozoic mass extinction was the worst in the fossil record, with over 90% of marine fossils disappearing; the Mesozoic […]

Our ancestors were using fire for cooking over a million years ago. This gave us an artifact to compensate for our mutant jaw muscles, which were not as strong as those of our fellow primates. Fire aided our masticatory ambitions as well as our gustatory needs by rendering previously inedible or toxic foods into a […]

I would like to see the entire human population be able to ask about, discuss, and vote on things to do.
This implies several preconditions that the entire human population must have:

Adequate nutrition and freedom from toxins
A healty adult human of whole mind is the consequence of a host of material prerequisites. It comes as no surprise […]

I got a base-model MacBook Pro to replace my dual 2GHZ G5 desktop. I’m thrilled. At the moment it has been upgraded with 1GB of ram ($75) bringing it to the same amount as on my G5.
Performance
So far it has been equivalently fast with the exception that disk reads from the dual 7200 RPM raid […]

More details later; for the moment I’m just making all the non-standard software I’m using available for download. Note that most of these are demo-only and require eventual payment. Of all the files listed there, ShadowPlan is the only one I know for sure is a keeper.