Where's the value in that?

"It doesn’t matter who you are, or what you’ve done, or think you can do. There’s a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chilli you cannot eat."

-- Daniel Pinkwater, A Hot Time in Nairobi

I'm a paying customer and I have the right to bitch, complain and moan all I want. I spent money, not to mention time and mental energy, on Martin's books and I certainly wouldn't have done so if I didn't feel that there was at least an implicit promise that he would make a reasonable effort to finish the series and not leave me hanging out to dry with a thousand cliffhangers.

I understand about missing deadlines and writers block and all that. But if you can't write, then at least shut up about it, for Ghu's sake. Don't tease me with updates about writing and the possible finish of the book and then go, "Oh well, didn't finish. Off to Spain for a month".

It's not like I've been hanging around, doing nothing, waiting for the next book to come out. In the time since Feast Of Crows came out I've managed to get married, have a daughter, buy a house and do a lot of other cool and interesting things. Still, I check in on the GRRM site every couple months and I am happy to bitch about the subject when it comes up in conversation or online.

They're just figuring this out now?

Developing for IOS has been a crap shoot from jump street. Apple has always retained the right to deny an app access to or remove it from the App Store for any reason...or for no reason at all. You could easily put a ton of time, money and energy into developing an iDevice app just to have Apple slam the door in your face without apology or explanation.

There's a lot of money to be made by working in Apple's walled garden, but the risk that you piss off the beast and get eaten has always been there.

Really, because I'd never consider drugging my child to make her more compliant. Well...maybe I'd consider it, but I'd never do it.

I could certainly see my daughter having a freak out from that kind of treatment, which means that we're not planning to fly for some time unless they get this nonsense sorted out. Maybe if the airlines see passenger levels drop and drop they'll put pressure on the TSA to fix their shit.

I was working the overnight shift, not much to do, and they had just gotten a new PC for the computer room. It had a big, 17 inch monitor, a zippy 486 under the hood and even a decent sound card. I downloaded the game, put it on a floppy and told my guys to watch the control room while I went upstairs for a bit.

I popped the disk in and started up the game. I remember how immersive it felt, the sound, the three D graphics. I really felt like I was part of the game. Three in the morning, all alone in the computer room, the growls of demons in my ears...it was pretty damn freaky.

...have been clamoring for a Zune Phone. AmIRight?

Most-Cited Authors on Climate Science

This table presents some of the many hundreds of scholars working in scientific research on climate change and related fields. The list incorporates all 619 names of the contributing authors to the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report (AR4), working group 1: the scientific basis ('wg1'). A few names have also been tagged for other contributions to the IPCC, either to other workging groups or to prior reports (AR1-3), but I've only added a very few such cases that I've come across in passing.

Of course the world is getting warmer. It has been for the last ten thousand years. You know, since the end of the last ice age.

You know, there are thousands of climate scientists all over the world who have spent a good portion of their lives studying the effects of human activity on the Earth's climate. They have like, gone to school, studied this stuff and got their Phd's and shit. Do you think that they didn't think of the fact that we're in a long-term warming trend and take that into account?