Apology: Extended Version!

For the more concise version, you needn't do more than look to your right.

What I had hoped for this site to become has offically gone on hold. My current legal and financial situation(s), well, more like situation since they're basically intertwined, has gotten worse and between my lack of funds and new need to focus on job hunting, I can't make working on this my priority anymore. The code for the sites namesake, and my child of a pet-project, is coming along nicely, but for now I need to focus on more urgent needs.

In other news, I added a writing page, where I'll be putting my little blibs and blurbs for all of you to see.

I recently updated myself on the Hans Reiser trial. Turns out he did kill his wife, and worse yet, he pulled what wired.com has dubbed the "geek defense." As I understand it, his entire defense was that he had been staring at a computer too long, though from the over 100 articles that have been written about this trial (no, I have not read all of them), the jury and judge were a little more than amused by it. He's now appealing the decision based on the fact that his lawyer was a pill head and betrayed him.

I hate how these media circuses paint geeks and nerds to be these total freakos when there are plenty of non-geeky, non-nerdy freakos out there who cause a hell of a lot more damage. For example, the NY guy who shot 13 people, or the PA guy who was afraid Obama was going to steal his guns, and ended up shooting three cops. Gamers and computer programmers might be a little socially awkward, but that doesn't mean they're all killers. I'm sure Reiser had his own demons, and cases like this should be taken one at a time, and not be used to paint an entire demographic as monsters.

Speaking of geeks, I was watching Star Trek today. I suppose that sentence speaks for itself. I can't really help liking it: I was raised on that thanks to my parents. What really made that series stick out for me was the fact that it was the polar oppisite of, say, Dune. Dune might be celebrated as one of the best sci-fi books ever, but it's so facsism practually oozes out of the pages the way the yellow sugary stuff oozes out of warm lemon merange pie. It was the kind of thing Heinlien's Starship Troopers parodied, and even though I didn't really care for either the book or the film, it's a good comparison. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry really showed his genius when he didn't really show much of future Earth, and all the viewer knew was that shit was pretty cool and humans didn't need money anymore. It sounds vaguely like the evil S word: socialism, though, that was never directly stated. I dunno, something about that notion that sci-fi can exist without being post-apocolyptic fictional nazi bullshit always stuck with me, and I thought I'd mention it.

Until later.