Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 8:38 am on 2/20/2003
This is the smartest thing I’ve read in a long time. Back when, I would have made it part of an issue of Gazebo.
Why Nerds Are Unpopular
It’s wider-ranging than the title suggests, and it’s more incisive than you might think after reading the first “answer” the author provides, in the second section. It gets better; keep going. The key doesn’t lie in thinking new, revolutionary thoughts, nor in making revolutionary thoughts seem obvious; the key lies somewhere in between. It’s a subtle social difference, maybe compassion, that lies between making revolution seem obvious, and the quieter victory of making it plain.
It’s at least nice to know that solutions to some problems have been found, even if power doesn’t see the problem.
I’d still be running Gazebo, or better yet writing the book I once meant to write on geek culture, but I decided it wasn’t worth the time when I could be spending the time on not being a geek anymore. Well, I’ve been working on that a while. Now it’s more that thinking about these issues is just another way of thinking about how much it sucks to be in my position, and how much work it’s going to be to get out of it. Neither of which are helpful thoughts. So let this link be the last of it, at least for a while.
link here
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 12:33 pm on 2/19/2003
The reason I haven’t finished any of my draft weblog posts for the last week is available for your viewing pleasure right here. It’s under heavy development and may get a new name, but eventually it’ll be the RSS aggregator of choice for people too lazy to download a real one. What do you think? (And don’t tell my boss I’ve been spending time on this, okay?)
link here
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 7:54 am on 2/5/2003
Back when I was a depressed, overpaid plebe at Eazel, I observed that Arlo Rose was a real voice of sanity in the din. His new free project for Mac OS X Jaguar is called Konfabulator and I hereby recommend that my Mac-using friends (you are on OS X now, right, Dad?) check it out when it makes its debut, in 5 days as of this writing.
(For the geeks: it’s an engine for scripting graphically-nice little desktop applets with JavaScript and off-the-shelf tools like Illustrator and Photoshop. Can I please, please have a Windows version for Christmas, Santa? Please?)
link here
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 6:07 am on 2/3/2003
Wow, that’s… kind of Zen, actually. (Courtesy hatch)
link here
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 8:11 am on 2/2/2003
Still believe that large-scale political protests are an effective tactic for making any kind of real change in the US? Read this.
link here