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Posted on January 3, 2015July 29, 2019 by: Leona

Whiplash: it needn’t all be whip and lash…

First off, Whiplash is an awesome movie. I loved how different the story was, and I thought the casting was very apt (Paul Reiser as …

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Posted on September 3, 2014August 13, 2019 by: Leona

Holography Schmolography

[updated 2014-09-04] The whole holography thing. YES. I am actually going there! I’m going to place a bet against (some) physicists. I have absolutely nothing …

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Posted on April 27, 2014July 29, 2019 by: Leona

Jodorowsky and his Dune

I was supposed to see the 12:00 showing. I didn’t. I fell into a phonecall lurking in some region of space-time that also happened to …

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Posted on April 12, 2014June 16, 2019 by: Leona

heartbleed: this is why C/C++ is, to this day, still too powerful for us

It starts with this piece of good-intention paving for the current https:// roads to hell: So we’re introducing a heartbeat, a transmission which seeks to …

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Posted on October 14, 2013June 16, 2019 by: Leona

You want me to WHAT my phone?

So while our Microsoft Exchange Server has always been a tad pissy with my Android phone, my employer has reconfigured it recently to up the ante: …

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Posted on October 5, 2013June 16, 2019 by: Leona

Equipment for off-grid homes

It takes quite a bit of doing, all this off-grid home stuff! Worst of all, the only thing I could remember from high school electronics …

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Posted on September 27, 2013June 16, 2019 by: Leona

TEDx talk on telling the African Story

Good journalism on Africa on journalism mashup talk: Bit of a sprig off the ‘ole HTWAA meme…. Update / sad post-scriptum: Komla Dumor is… dead. …

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Posted on September 24, 2013July 29, 2019 by: Leona

By extension of the earth plus plastic paradigm…

In a not-quite-recent discussion about macro scale structures (mostly corporations, governments, skewed economies, social / digital media spaces etc) and how they might be screwing …

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Posted on September 20, 2013June 16, 2019 by: Leona

The Impossible House

From scribblings on my Note: behold, the impossible house! What makes it impossible? Several things: Scaling issues, non-ergonomic nooks, nonsensically-placed windows, undefined roofing, questionable use …

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Posted on January 2, 2013August 13, 2019 by: Leona

Krishna visits.

Led I had tumbled out of the movie theater far too soon, leading to a rather strong inclination to just eff it and head home. I don’t …

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