Author Archives: thecodepounder

I'm a guy who's got nothing to say and no one to listen, but likes to screw around on his Mac... A long time rational thinker, I tend to eschew the supernatural (and you thought I was going to say "eschew obfuscation", didn't you?).

Officer says god shielded him from Pentagon gunman

By thecodepounder | Published March 5, 2010

Ah yes, the power of belief. I’m sure it never occurred to the officer that his god could have just as easily prevented his being shot in the first place.
Of course, by all accounts the shooter was a 9/11 “truther”, so it would appear that we have irrational beliefs on both sides of the equation.

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Humor of the day

By thecodepounder | Published March 4, 2010

Quick. I’m having an argument. Name me a GOP policy that rich people hate.
–Roger Ebert on Twitter

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FoxNews: Woman describes her abortion on Twitter, is astonished by backlash

By thecodepounder | Published March 1, 2010

As am I*.
There’s just no shortage in our country of people who want to tell everyone else how to live their lives, is there?

nkb

* I’ve been following her on Twitter (antitheistangie) for a year or more…

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Apple releases Aperture 3.0.1 Update

By thecodepounder | Published February 25, 2010

Check Software Update or download the standalone installer. Click through for the release notes.

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Young Americans significantly less religious than parents

By thecodepounder | Published February 24, 2010

One in four American millennials — which it defined as those who were born after 1980 and came of age around the millennium — are not affiliated with any faith tradition, Pew found. They characterize their religion as “atheist,” “agnostic” or “nothing in particular.”

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Roger Ebert on his interview in Esquire

By thecodepounder | Published February 19, 2010

[W]e’re all dying in increments. I don’t mind people knowing what I look like, but I don’t want them thinking I’m dying. To be fair, Chris Jones never said I was. If he took a certain elegiac tone, you know what? I might have, too. And if he structured his elements into a story arc, [...]

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Roger Ebert: The Essential Man

By thecodepounder | Published February 18, 2010

Truly excellent article by Chris Jones in Esquire.
Ebert:
I believe that if, at the end of it all, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. [...]

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Doug Fieger, lead singer of The Knack, dead at 57

By thecodepounder | Published February 18, 2010

Don’t know how I missed this, other than the fact that I’ve had a child in the hospital since Saturday, that is…
Doug Fieger, dead at 57:
Doug Fieger, lead singer and songwriter for the L.A.-based new wave pop band the Knack, died Sunday in Los Angeles. He was 57.
Fieger had battled successive sieges with lung and [...]

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Apple releases Aperture 3.0

By thecodepounder | Published February 9, 2010

There are some long awaited new features, including Faces, Places, Brushes and Custom Presets, among some 200+ others.

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Congratulations to the Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints

By thecodepounder | Published February 8, 2010

As a son of South Louisiana, I take special pleasure in congratulating the New Orleans Saints on their amazing win in Super Bowl XLIV.
Way to go!

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iPad as a photographers tool

By thecodepounder | Published February 5, 2010

Scott Bourne provides a professional photographer’s take on the iPad:
I get a real chuckle out of people who say you can’t use the iPad to show off your portfolio because it doesn’t run Flash. P L E A S E! Apple will ship the iPad with a wonderful photo viewer and you can bet your [...]

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I was a dump and downright pessimistic person.

By thecodepounder | Published February 4, 2010

Spam phrase of the day.

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