http://dunnix.wordpress.com Philosophy, Music, Life, Books, Tech, Computers Sat, 26 Jan 2008 03:46:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/RyansDiscoursehttp://feedburner.google.com   I know how hard it is to be a student, pay for tuition, books, rent, food, strippers... its tough without the RIAA sending you litigation letters demanding you send them $3,000 – $4,000 dollars to make the whole thing go away, otherwise face ... http://dunnix.wordpress.com/2008/01/25/riaa-brainstorm/ So I went to the "Of Montreal" concert last night at the Great American Music Hall in sf. The two bands opening for them were hilarious esp "Grand buffet".. Although I had a good time, one of my friends almost got into a brawl with another girl... People, when you go ... http://dunnix.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/of-montreal/ I will probably be dragged through the streets and burned in effigy if fans have to wait another year for “Lost” to come back. And who could blame them? Public sentiment may have swung toward the guild for now, but once the viewing audience has spent a month or ... http://dunnix.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/writing-stike/ OpenSocial is a set of three common APIs, defined by Google with input from partners, that allow developers to access core functions and information at social networks: * Profile Information (user data) * Friends Information (social graph) * Activities (things that happen, News Feed type stuff) Hosts agree to accept the API calls and ... http://dunnix.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/open-social/ Completely overslept this morning making me almost late for work if it wasn't for the intervention of an awesome friend. This oversleeping + maybe the time change last night, has put me into semi jet-lag. It was dark so early it threw me off. Today is Sunday, and therefore always my ... http://dunnix.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/jet-lagged/ City health officials took steps Thursday toward opening the nation's first legal safe-injection room, where addicts could shoot up heroin, cocaine and other drugs under the supervision of nurses. Hoping to reduce San Francisco's high rate of fatal drug overdoses, the public health department co-sponsored a symposium on the only ... http://dunnix.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/san-fran-junkie-safe-rooms/ Best Ideas Evar. In The Know: Is The Government Spying On Paranoid Schizophrenics Enough? http://dunnix.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/help-for-paranoid-schizophrenics/   Veronica belmont and Tom Merritt (Two of the best tech podcast hosts out there) founded the Sword and Laser, which is a SciFi/ Fantasy book club.    0.o    I'm so in.   The first book? the Golden Compass. Perfect seeing how the movie is just around the corner.... Note to self; bookstore tomorrow. PS: Veronica and ... http://dunnix.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/swords-and-laserz/ "Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they ... http://dunnix.wordpress.com/2007/10/13/money-as-debt/ I realized earlier this summer I have a vague system in which I do things. Most of which is leaving the house an hour and a half before I have to be at work, get on the Bart, go to Starbucks, kick it and make the most of a cigarette ... http://dunnix.wordpress.com/2007/09/05/system/