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Posts from June 2003

Anime Vagueness

Is it me, or does every future-tech anime movie on earth have an inscrutable, esoteric, and wholly indecipherable ending? We just finished watching Metropolis, a very cool movie about a very advanced autocracy that subjugates its robots and ignores its poor and flirts with apocalypse through technological overzealousness. Everything was going great, they were working [...]


H.L. Says …

H.L. Mencken said this: “Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men [...]


The Theory of Marriage

One of the few unmarried guys I know plans to succumb to the lure of matrimony this weekend. We, his male peers, signed a “congratulatory” card for him today, peppering our well-wishes with thoughts like Stop! It’s still not too late! and Flee to Mexico! and Who am I going to live vicariously through now? [...]


WiFi Speed Spray

I love my computer, but there are some things about it that bug me. One of them is its terrible network wireless range. I can’t get very far away from my base station at all before I start to lose the signal. Thankfully, I’ve just discovered a solution to my dilemma. It’s called WiFi Speed [...]


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