Random rants…
This article is a year and a half old, so I don’t know how we’re doing, but it says that at current rates, CPUs in 2005 will be as hot as nuclear reactors, and in 2015, they’ll be as hot as the surface of the sun. I think that’s the surface of the sun in the daytime, not at night. Anyway, wouldn’t it be cool if it worked the other way around and CPUs were really cold? We’d have that global warming thing licked. As it is, my physics is rusty. If we heat up nuclear reactors to make electricity which then powers CPUs which then heat up to the heat of the reactors in the first place, I’m thinking the power grid’s in trouble. And yes, I know how wrong my logic is. I just wanted to get that “at night” crack in. Heh heh, “crack in”. What?
From The Neal Pollack Anthology of American Literature: “For every ten thousand fraternity boys and sorority sisters who were seeking a cheap thrill on my page, at least one Third World prepubescent sought legitimate instruction. This Rawandan boy and his friends were being taught a lesson in creative autoeroticism. By me. Over the Internet. From my bedroom in the surprisingly hip Brooklyn neighbourhood in which I live, for a few brief minutes every day somewhere in the world, my little Web page was helping to ease the pain of genocide.” I just started reading this book.
Speaking of books, the site I alluded to the other day is Bookslut. I still haven’t had much time to check it out, but the blog part looks interesting. Judge for yourselves, lest, ye be judged by yourselves or something.
So the government’s trying to crack down on the “underground economy” and the barter system for tax purposes. I don’t have a link to back this up, I just know that they are. I was a fed once, you know. Meanwhile, what kind of example are they setting? Look at this Mint thing: they get paper and ink from their suppliers, and in exchange they use the ink to make pictures on the paper and give it right back. It’s just not right.
Pardon the non-interconnectedness (I managed a “speaking of” though!), although it’s no worse than usual, this time I actually have an excuse: I’m getting sick. I swear it’s been forever since it last happened, but hey, here it is. The whole office seems to be coming down with something simultaneously, which makes me suspect some kind of curse from a rival corporation. I have a date with some high-alcohol cough medicine now, so if you’ll excuse me…