I was going to title this post “I’m Doing Science and I’m Still Alive,” after a line from the end credits song for Portal. But I didn’t, because a cursory Google search revealed that a ton of other like-minded nerds did the same thing — months ago, in fact — so it’s already passé. [...]

A big thunderstorm hit just after Apple got home from work. A few minutes later our power went out, and it’s still out. Sustained outages are actually pretty unusual around here, but we broke out the candles, took cold showers and are headed to bed. I’m able to post this thanks to my iPhone, and [...]

NBC yesterday announced their fall TV lineup, and as many of us suspected, it includes a new Knight Rider TV series. The reinvented show will air in the 8 p.m. Wednesday timeslot, with encore episodes to air each Saturday night in the off-season (summer 2009).
In addition, the show is getting a new executive producer: [...]

As you might be aware, the fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica starts on the Sci-Fi channel this Friday night at 10:00 p.m. ET. Interestingly, it will also be aired early — at noon ET — on SciFi.com!
So I was watching TV earlier, when I noticed that my TiVo was showing “Battlestar Galactica [...]

What was I just saying the other day about design — about how there’s no way I can see it becoming a lost art, despite what the disillusioned Philippe Starck may think?
Today, my pro-design argument received more support in the form of Peter DeLorenzo’s latest rant at AutoExtremist.com. Peter talks about how, despite all [...]

Welcome back to another edition of “Search for $A, Find $B” at Oddball Update! This is where I get bored, look at my server logs and show you some of the dumb stuff people have been searching for when they run across my site.
In this, the first quarter report for 2008, we have Keebler’s [...]

Rock and roll just used to be for kicks
And nowadays it’s politics
And after 1986 what else could be new?
So sang Billy Joel in his 1986 single “Modern Woman,” a song meant to light-heartedly illustrate how the stereotypical man’s antiquated behavior toward women was no longer effective. In recent times, though, I’ve started adopting the [...]