http://www.manoutoftime.org Obstinately living the future that was Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:59:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.manoutoftime.org/2010/02/17/oh-now-i-remember-thats-what-i-wanted-to-be-when-i-grew-up/ http://www.manoutoftime.org/2010/02/17/oh-now-i-remember-thats-what-i-wanted-to-be-when-i-grew-up/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:54:59 +0000 Bill http://www.manoutoftime.org/?p=352
If you ever wanted to be an astronaut, check out the tweets by Astro_Soichi. He’s an engineer on the International Space Station, and whenever he gets the chance to take a picture of something cool on the planet below, he posts an image via Twitter for our enjoyment. If you don’t use Twitter yet, maybe [...]]]> http://www.manoutoftime.org/2010/02/17/oh-now-i-remember-thats-what-i-wanted-to-be-when-i-grew-up/feed/ 0 http://www.manoutoftime.org/2010/02/09/about-star-trek-online-from-a-guy-whos-never-seen-it/ http://www.manoutoftime.org/2010/02/09/about-star-trek-online-from-a-guy-whos-never-seen-it/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:04:31 +0000 Bill http://www.manoutoftime.org/?p=342
So I’ve been reading some stuff and talking to people about Star Trek Online. It’s appealing to me in concept. Eric Burns wrote a nice lengthy article about what Cryptic needs to do to retain the very impressive million players it gained upon release. These thoughts are in no small part based on reading his [...]]]> http://www.manoutoftime.org/2010/02/09/about-star-trek-online-from-a-guy-whos-never-seen-it/feed/ 0 http://www.manoutoftime.org/2010/02/03/that-felt-surprisingly-good/ http://www.manoutoftime.org/2010/02/03/that-felt-surprisingly-good/#comments Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:26:39 +0000 Bill http://www.manoutoftime.org/?p=336
For a couple years, I was part of the leading PvE progression guild on Aggramar. (Yes, this is World of Warcraft stuff.) We got most of the server-first kills — I think we were beat to only two or three in the time I was with them. Not that it was an extraordinarily competitive server, [...]]]> http://www.manoutoftime.org/2010/02/03/that-felt-surprisingly-good/feed/ 0 http://www.manoutoftime.org/2010/01/27/you-read-it-here-first-apple-announces-the-ipoo-saves-human-race/ http://www.manoutoftime.org/2010/01/27/you-read-it-here-first-apple-announces-the-ipoo-saves-human-race/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:29:34 +0000 Bill http://www.manoutoftime.org/?p=331
At 10:00 AM today, Apple will be announcing the iPoo, a small device that will be fitted, at miniscule cost to local governments and zero cost to consumers, inside the rim of every toilet bowl on the planet. What does it do, you ask? The iPoo will save us all in three ways: 1. Public [...]]]> http://www.manoutoftime.org/2010/01/27/you-read-it-here-first-apple-announces-the-ipoo-saves-human-race/feed/ 0 http://www.manoutoftime.org/2009/12/03/slate-re-wiped/ http://www.manoutoftime.org/2009/12/03/slate-re-wiped/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 07:04:59 +0000 Bill http://www.manoutoftime.org/?p=329
I have just deleted all my historical entries. I don’t really want to find a way to import them; if they were going to be online, I’d want to read them first and do some cleanup work, discarding stuff I didn’t feel should still be online and making sure the formatting was consistent. That makes [...]]]> http://www.manoutoftime.org/2009/12/03/slate-re-wiped/feed/ 0