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We have been watching Bravo’s 100 Scariest Movie Moments. It’s a fun retrospective on the sickest, goriest, terrifying parts of a bunch of beyond the pale movies.
They also have a group of varied talking heads, including John Carpenter, the Upright Citizens Brigade, Rob Zombie, Guillermo del Toro, and a very bad looking and sounding […]

I had been avoiding writing about this since the comeback started against the Yankees. When it comes to the Red Sox, you can’t be too superstitious. But now they have won it, and now it seems ok to write about it.
Red Sox win the World Series.
It takes me […]

To further cement the feeling that it is an interesting time, we experienced pea sized hail on the way home from a friend’s house. Weird.

While on tour in Montreal, Camper Van Beethoven’s van got broken into and their gear was stolen. More details on their web site.
But they are perserving with a little help from their friends. They are getting gear from Ibanez, Gibson, and for the show in Detroit, fans who have guitars according to […]

Boing Boing had a link to Hunter S. Thompson’s latest missive on the Presidential Election, entitled Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004.
It’s good to see the weird still in action.

Perhaps this is another sign of a coming apocalypse, especially with the Red Sox winning four in a row to advance to the World Series.
ESPN’s story about former Washington Husky football coach Rick Neuheisel being cleared of wrong doing by the NCAA includes a new definition of lying as proposed by the NCAA -
The […]

Some days the Merriam-Webster word of the day is rather pedestrian, but todays made me laugh. I always think of William Burroughs when I hear the word mugwump.
mugwump \MUG-wump\ noun
1 : a bolter from the Republican party in 1884
*2 : a person who is independent in politics or who remains undecided […]

Final talk of the conference for me as Mike Kelly’s “Getting Started with Automated Testing”. My laptop was mostly out of juice, so I have a limited set of notes from this talk.
The talk focused on test automation, starting out with a fairly broad definition of automation. Kelly talked about being tester […]

Afternoon started out with Brett Pettichord’s (he is now with ThoughtWorks) “Agile Testing” talk. I was looking for to this one, as I had read most of Lessons Learned in Software Testing. They raffled off a copy of this book at the end ofthe talk. Despite my initial interest, I found Pettichord […]