Ragged Clown

It's just a shadow you're seeing that he's chasing…


Monthly Archives: January 2010

There Be Dragons

January
2010

[I wrote this for a friend. I hope he won’t mind that I recycled it for my blog] I got my first tattoo when they were quite unfashionable. I was in the Navy and even there no one was getting … Continue reading

Quest 500. 1-10.

January
2010

I am on a quest to listen to the 500 Greatest – according to Rolling Stone – Albums of All Time. I am 30 albums in and have an interim report to file. I’ll cover the highlights. OK, Sergeant Pepper … Continue reading

Sorry. Your Tree is on our Mineral Mine.

January
2010

Way to miss the point! (Don’t play with that or you’ll go blind) But Avatar claims that there is something wrong with technology, and that the Na’vi of Pandora somehow represent opposition to it. The right-of-center blogosphere that I loiter … Continue reading

The New Clown. Less Ragged.

January
2010

Strike another one off the list. I have a new theme (alongside the old theme shown for posterity). It’s not finished yet and hardly works at all on Internet Explorer and who knows what it will do on an iphone … Continue reading

Solar Flexus

January
2010

I’ve wanted to write a physics engine for years and messing with Squeak made me want to try it in Flex. It wasn’t quite as easy as Squeak but it wasn’t too hard. (It probably needs flash 10 to work) … Continue reading