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Farewell to the Prisoner in Cell 13

Published on January 14, 2009 By spyderkl

Patrick McGoohan, actor, director and co-creator of one of the greatest SF series ever, The Prisoner died yesterday. I wonder if he got to see any of the new version.

Sir Terry Pratchett

Published on December 31, 2008 By spyderkl

Yep, that’s right – Terry Pratchett, the author of the Discworld series (among many other books), was made a knight yesterday. Very, very well deserved. Thanks to /. for the link.

Holiday crafting

Published on December 4, 2008 By spyderkl

Because the crafting is interspersed with the holiday stuff… I bet you thought that there would be a post about politics or something else going on in the world. There is one thing, sadly, that I’ll be writing about, but not this post. Or about School Girl being sick for the past 3 1/2 days [...]

Happy Belated Birthday, GNU

Published on September 2, 2008 By spyderkl

Yeah, I’m following the fine family tradition of being at least one day late with birthday wishes. Happy 25th birthday, GNU. Someday, when we finally get one of the three other Macs here back up and running, we will actually install you… Link courtesy of Stephen Fry.

Planning for Next Week

Published on June 2, 2008 By spyderkl

Does anybody know of some good electronics-type things to do with a 6-year-old? Preferably ones that wouldn’t involve soldering and/or go a bit beyond “hook battery up to LED, watch LED light up”? If I can find a spare pager motor lying about, we might build a bristlebot, but we’ll see what we can find [...]