Programming Note: Noon (Pacific) Today

If you’re going to be on a computer today, you’ll want to do this at noon (Pacific Standard Time) today: 1. Go to AdamsBlock.com. 2. Watch. I don’t sponsor or endorse the site fully, though I did just hear that…

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A Snowball’s Chance on Mars

Well, I was wrong. The market didn’t go up 900 points today; only 485. (Third largest point total gain ever.) Even dead cats can only bounce so high. Or maybe it’s just waiting for official October. I woke up late…

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Searching for Direction

I’ve been playing the stock market for about four months now. On days like most of the ones this past week, they say that the market is searching for direction. As though the market, each day, were a living entity…

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Things are Looking Up (Maybe)

The weekend was sort of a waste. A very fun waste, but I still didn’t get nearly done what I was hoping to. Both in terms of making decisions and in terms of catching up on other projects of import.…

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Facebook ‘Em

I’ve spent far too much of my weekend trying to develop an application for the much-ballyhooed Facebook. We’re nearing a year since users could create Facebook apps and over five years since the original Country Quiz came out, so I…

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Note to APDA Forum Werewolf Players

So I haven’t updated in a while in part because I’ve been crafting and then moderating a Werewolf/Mafia game with a whopping 45 players online on the APDA Forum. And just now, the Forum exceeded its bandwidth. This is just…

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Photo Diary of India & Nepal Update

Little is so humbling as setting slightly optimistic goals and then being bowled over with malaise and inertia. The fact is that I have found myself so overwhelmed by the online efforts I would like to produce that I have…

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2/20/?

Yesterday, I had a really hard time. For one thing, I just wasn’t feeling that well, which is always sort of a struggle on one’s birthday. Birthdays aren’t quite the same as they were when I was excited to tack…

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Today’s Photo Uploads: Air Over Afghanistan

So I think I’m going to be releasing these roughly daily, which means I can keep up the pace of uploading photos without spending all my time on it and/or driving myself crazy. Today’s photos are from the 25th of…

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