It’s funny how some big budget movies really blow it when they try to portray the US Military accurately, but then the little movies usually nail it right in the head. I am watching Pauly Shore’s In The Army Now, which should be pretty much a slapstick comedy, but I am amazed at how accurate [...]

I spent a few years of my life working as a telecommunications specialist for the US Army. My specialty was satellite communications: I was trained in whatever was state of the art back in 1992 but before I could start working in that specialty I was pulled from my unit and sent back to the [...]

In what amounts to one of the most shocking lifestyle changes I have made in a long time, I have managed to switch myself from Classic Coke to Diet Coke. The reason I am in shock is that I am so addicted to Coca Cola that in the past whenever I tried to even taste [...]

After over two years of faithfully humoring my paranoia, my PGP/GPG key gave off the ghost. 0x700292C1 is now revoked at most key servers. If you are one of the few people that has used this key in the past, please delete it from your key ring and import 0x7C5B1A9C from any of the key [...]

1. #asp is a free resource. This means you are not paying jack shit to use it. Don’t like what you find at #asp? Too bad, choke on a cock. 2. #asp is not a democracy. The best political model I can think of is a bening political dictatorship. I am the channel manager and [...]

I have a confession to make: I am a Tom Clancy freak. I read and reread his “Jack Ryan” series over and over. Reading Clancy has put me well in touch with a vein of pure frickin paranoia I did not know I had. Make that a 50/50 mix of paranoia and sarcasm. If it [...]

NYC in the dark since like, well, forever. So is Detroit and other big cities in that corner of the country. The finger pointing already started and I am pretty sure the media circus is going to take forever to wind down and die from the public’s apathy. I have only heard from one of [...]

Right now I am stuck at a hotel ballroom in a conference for a web analytics tool that costs an arm and a leg. And which we already bought, but hell, the seminar is free, so I get to eat good food for half a day and spend $10 on broadband that does not work. [...]

Lemme tell you something about SWAT: This is what the all-American summer action blockbuster is all about. In other words: This movie rocks. I don’t give a rat’s ass what the critics say about it, there is not one goddamn thing wrong with this movie. It is not too long or short, no bullshit filler [...]

It is funny how the least expected actor from a group movie is the one that really takes off, leaving the rest of the ensemble pretty much in the dust (I will talk about him in a bit). I am too lazy to write long movie reviews like I used to, but I have to [...]