everyday life was right
by jebni on April 30, 2006
Compensation for my dodgy Magneto Was Right t-shirt getting (predictably) kicked off Cafepress: someone put me into Wikipedia, in an entry called (get this) “Everyday Life in the Marvel Universe“. Thanks, 205.188.117.12! [ tags: wikipedia, magneto, comics, x-men, marvel, pop-culture ]
the whorehouse, redux: escaping “subjective destitution”
by jebni on April 30, 2006
I’ve been meaning for a while to revisit Walter Benjamin’s manly refusal to be “drained by the whore called ‘Once upon a time’ in historicism’s bordello,” but I was too confused. But recent comments on “subjective destitution” versus “desubjectification” in (…)
white noise
by jebni on April 29, 2006
Badly shielded cabling is the spookiest thing ever. One of the places where I work has a lot of digital video stuff going on, all the time. So when video from one computer ends up playing on the LCD display (…)
value
by jebni on April 21, 2006
And when this building is on fire These flames can’t burn any higher I turn sideways to the sun And in a moment I am gone That’s the price of love (that’s the price of love) Can you feel it (…)
insanity: goldbergian backups and the spectre of (data) loss
by jebni on April 17, 2006
While contemplating if it’s my fate to lose my mind, I just bought a Strongspace account to do online backups of my files when I’m in Hong Kong. My most important data is now mirrored in six different spots: on (…)
tracer
by jebni on April 6, 2006
A new venture: Someone with a pen or pencil can be a tracer. So can a radioactive substance introduced into the body to make certain processes visible for diagnosis. And a bullet that acts like a flare. Stay tuned. [ (…)