Finally, it looks like on demand books can become a reality. A company called On Demand Books (heh) has a new machine called Expresso which can pump out a 550 page book in less than seven minutes. The price per page is between one to five cents depending on where you read.

If anyone has read The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy they will understand. Anyway, I've made various little changes and whatnots to some content.

Update the list of books I own, adding recently bought and read sections, and adding a menu for easier navigation.

In case you hadn't noticed already I'm voting for Kerry this election, but regardless of who I may want to win, if you aren't voting at all this year you suck. Who's up for some old school MLP? I knew you were.

It seems AMD has been doing very well this year, seemingly beating Intel to the punch with their latest Athlon 64 4000+. One wonders what AMD will use to base their model numbers with as Intel starts focusing more on general preformance rather than GHZ. Apple also has been doing good lately. They released new iBooks and re-added their single G5 desktop today. One of these days, maybe when their next generation comes out, I need to get me an iPod. My favorate maven of the late night comedy fake news The Daily Show, John Stewart has been having an interesting month showing up at CNN's Crossfire calling one of the hosts a dick, talking to Bill O'Reilly on his show, and releasing a book which has now been banned at Walmart. If anyone doesn't know anything about Google these days they need to go Google it. Anyway they released a new Desktop Search program that can combine web searching with searching files on your hard drive. However some people have voiced concerns about it. I myself am not sure I want anything on my system that can search through some of my encrypted files as if they werent. One of my newest favorate authors Neal Stephenson was interviewed at Slashdot.

Wasn't that fun? I'm going to sleep.

One last bit about George W. Bush. Alright, so maybe I'm a little harsh to Bush. I don't hate him, like many other anti-bush people, but then again there's nothing that I like about him either. Bush and his administration have divided this country literally in half; alienated the black community, done nothing but hurt civil rights, health care, social security, and diluted the separation of church and state. I wouldn't use Fahrenheit 911 as propaganda against him though. I will be rooting for John Kerry and John Edwards this November. That is of course if Homeland Security don't manage to delay the elections.

I've been reading The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil. It's a very interesting read. He has some interesting theories about Order and Chaos, The law of Increasing Returns, and evolutions next step into the age of machines. It's a definite read if your interested in what might happen in the 21st century.

David Cross is a funny guy. I'm currently reading a book called Cryptonomicon written by Neal Stephenson. This guy is borderline fucking genius or I'm borderline fucking retarded, either way. Anyway he takes these pauses in the book to explain some complex theory like how sex affects clarity of mind such that C_m (clarity of mind) can be designated as a range from 0 ≤ C_m < 1 where C_m = 0 indicates a totally clouded mind and C_m = 1 is an unattainable divine state of infinite intellect. Horniness designated as σ begins at zero at time t = t₀ and increases linearly immediately following sex as a function of time such as &sigma a (t - tô) and can only drop back down to zero by having sex or a Manual Override. This function of horniness effect clarity of mind such that the at a critical point in horniness there is a threshold σ_c when σ > σ_c it becomes impossible to concentrate. This can be completely described by the limit function:

Cm  a	lim n®∞	1
		______
		(σ - σc)n

It's bloody brilliant! The main thrust of the book is about the importance of cryptography through WWII and currently as you can probably tell from the title.

Normally I'm not much into quirky community sites but orkut seems relatively decent. It's affiliated with google so it might be an interesting site. The server is a little slow but they got a ton of communities, even one for Fort Collins.