The Iron Yuppie

• "Sandman" series by Neil Gaiman
• "Watchmen", "From Hell" (about Jack the Ripper) and "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" by Alan Moore
• "Blankets" by Craig Thompson - Teenager falling in love for the first time

posted by Iron Yuppie  # 12/08/2006 03:19:00 AM 0 Comments

Have I told you how much I love math? Here's a page that made me want to quit my job and go teach it:

Classic Fallacies

View all the wonders of the mathematical world! See a proof where 1=2! Observe a proof showing that all people in Canada are the same age! Any many more items that will blow your mind!

I love this stuff.

posted by Iron Yuppie  # 12/07/2006 03:04:00 PM 0 Comments

I've had the biggest trouble keeping my hard drives free of ... wait for it... garbage over the years (I hope you did not think I was going to say porn). Anyhow, I'm always downloading podcasts and ripping mp3s and installing random files to try out new geeky things. I've always been disappointed, however, that Windows lacks a simple way to look at all the space used by directory in Explorer. MacOS 9, the last time I have seriously used a Mac at length, had a simple way called "Calculate Folder Size". I miss that.

I know there's been a few other ways of navigating your files that offer some folder sizing options... Here are 15 in fact. However, I found my new winner.

It's called SpaceMonger, and I love it. Let's zoom in on the most interesting bit:

I know it's a bit blurred, but you can see the important parts. The folders that take up the most space are the largest. And you can see the contents, zoom in or delete them right from this interface. It's one of the first truly innovative ways of looking at a very standard problem I've seen in a long time. Nice job guys.

posted by Iron Yuppie  # 12/06/2006 11:25:00 AM 0 Comments

I have no idea how anyone comes to a conclusion like this.

 

Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) said yesterday he intends to block Democrats from passing a mandatory federal cap on heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions.

“I will be an active part of any leadership effort to prevent it passing in the House,” the outgoing chairman of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee told reporters after speaking at an event hosted by the American Petroleum Institute and the Energy Department.

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/05/barton-global-warming/ (thanks Digg.com)

Even if he does not agree with the conclusion, how does Rep. Barton reconcile the fact that SO many scientists have come out saying that Global Warming/Climate Change is real? Unless they were all grossly mis-informed, doesn't this contradict the "pretty weak" statement?

As always, what interests me here is not that he has a different opinion, but how he reached it. I generally believe people to evaluate themselves as honest and seeking to do their best for the most amount of people and/or whatever they are doing is not going to affect anyone else aka no one ever thinks they are going to Hell (generally speaking of course... there are people who have accurate assessments of what they are doing, but they are pretty few and far between). Rep. Barton must have looked at everything and said "this is the right move for the most amount of people". My question is what did he read to come to that conclusion?

posted by Iron Yuppie  # 12/06/2006 11:00:00 AM 0 Comments

Alas, another fine show appears to be on its last legs.

Is the sun going down on "Day Break"

I really like it... it's got some interesting twists and turns and has a curious take on Groundhog's Day where only SOME things carry over from day to day. One can only hope it's replaced with non-stop game shows and dancing/cooking/humiliating the stars/wives/bachelors/etc.

posted by Iron Yuppie  # 12/05/2006 01:25:00 PM 0 Comments