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About Me :
I'm a grownup nerd living in the Boston burbs. I write computer programs for a living and plays for fun.
I'm married to a wonderful woman, and we share a nice little house with our daughter and our cats.
I'm a humanist, a technologist, an artist, and an idealist. I believe in reason, freedom, love, equality,
and democracy. (Did I mention that I'm
an idealist? I did, OK.)
I'm also a pragmatist and an empiricist. I reject ideology and dogma, especially when they conflict with
practical facts (i.e., pretty much always). I particularly hate willful ignorance, which tends to go hand-in-hand
with ideology and dogma.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Like the alignment of the planets, this blog gets updated as I have the time, inspiration, and inclination to do so.
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
Something Positive
My old friend Randy runs a pretty well-known web comic called Something Positive. Randy's not gonna get any gigs writing sitcoms for the corpomega-networks. They'll tell you it's because he's too twisted for them, i.e. not bland, mediocre, unchallenging, PC, safe, and corporate-friendly. That's just as well because he's too funny for them. For example, Randy is the sick mind behind the Redneck Tree. Or consider this recent gem. I'm just stoked to know someone who actually is making this web publishing thing work! There is a way for independent voices to survive, and Randy is blazing the trail.
My old friend Randy runs a pretty well-known web comic called Something Positive. Randy's not gonna get any gigs writing sitcoms for the corpomega-networks. They'll tell you it's because he's too twisted for them, i.e. not bland, mediocre, unchallenging, PC, safe, and corporate-friendly. That's just as well because he's too funny for them. For example, Randy is the sick mind behind the Redneck Tree. Or consider this recent gem. I'm just stoked to know someone who actually is making this web publishing thing work! There is a way for independent voices to survive, and Randy is blazing the trail.