Well, Android became significantly more webOS-like when google poached him from Palm. I hope it continues that trend. I'm very sad that webOS is essentially dead now. The multi-tasking elements of webOS are far superior to that of Android and iOS.

I like the Charles Ives quote that I will paraphrase here that those that can't handle dissonance are wussies.

Bingo. I will gladly pay a reasonable fee for the content that i actually want, but I'm never EVER going to pay $90/month (over a thousand dollars a year!) again for a load of crap reality shows that I will never watch. The whole channel bundle idea is horrible and should die as soon as possible.

I'm going to call bullshit on this story, but if it is true, I will have to cancel my hulu plus subscription. I'll rely on netflix, and, I guess, the network websites for new/recent episodes.

This might explain why I'm insane.

Yeah, not really sure he's obscure. He's critically acclaimed and beloved by most other authors, but maybe less widely read than some of the bigger names. Certainly nobody has ever made a movie of any of his works. A note on Wolfe: the quality varies widely from one novel to the next. Some of his novels tend toward mystery, and these I've found to be the least successful. The highest quality are "The Fifth Head of Cerberus", "The Book of the New Sun", and just about any of his short stories. They are brilliant pieces of literature, and not just in the Science Fiction category. I found "The Book of the Long Sun", and "The Book of the Short Sun" to be rather more mundane, but still OK reads. I really liked the Latro series, but these are a challenging read, and I understand how many would not really care for them. The Knight and The Wizard are good fantasy, and have some incredible moments (loved the stacked planes of existence concept). The quality of the single novels is really hit and miss. Of his recent works, I liked "Pirate Freedom", but did not care for "An Evil Guest".

And sadly, it is his only novel. I understand it took his editor many years of prodding to get him to actually finish it. I'm so glad he did, but so bummed he did not attempt any other works.

I liked all the series (especially "End of Time"), but "Gloriana" was the best single Moorcock novel I've read. It's a little fucked up, and in this case, I think that's a good thing.

I'm not sure about that. I read this series, too, and I had the same opinion. Too close to Tolkien for me to really appreciate them on their own merit, but just not nearly as good.

I actually enjoyed the fact that the protagonist was an anti-hero, but I just found these books too tedious, too much a rip-off of the general flow of Tolkien. I read them all the way through, and by the time I got to the end, my only thought was, "man, I wish I had read 'The Lord of the Rings' again instead.

Also, Wolfe's short stories (there are a number of collections). In particular, "The island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories". Yes, that title is correct. In that collection, "The Death of Doctor Island" is one of the finest short stories I've ever read. Also on Wolfe, this is not science fiction or fantasy, but "Peace" is a brilliant novel.

Also: Jack of Shadows. (Despite the title, not related to the Amber series.) It's a short little thing, but the best Zelazny, IMO.

Binary? Why do you say that? My brain is a non-stop logic and calculation machine after eleven beers. And you should see how succinct and elegant my code is after one hundred and one IPAs!

Why on earth would you want Android on a webOS device? The hardware is ancient. It's the OS that's good.

Yeah, sure, I'll definitely have that done by next Someday.

Joomla is great for the "my site looks identical to yours" group of rapid deployment. But when you want to do really fancy or different things (menu navigation in a 2X4 grid) suddenly it's a major pita. Plus converting a customers HTML site to a Joomla site is a raging pain in the butt.

I don't follow this at all. All a Joomla template is is an HTML page with a few PHP calls inserted to load content. It's really easy to convert HTML to a Joomla template. That's part of the development process for every Joomla website I do.