http://tkincher.com/blog answers from a prison planet Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:12:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the first time, a significant evolution has been caught in the act in a lab setting: an E. Coli bacteria acquired the ability to metabolise citrate, something it normall can't do. The New Journal of Physics reports a new "meta-material made up of array of small cylinders" can create a ... http://tkincher.com/blog/2008/06/27/the-far-come-close-took-by-the-littl-come-big/ Usually prefacing an involved explanation of something very technical, I would conservatively estimate that I hear the word "basically" used in a sentence a couple of hundred times a week. I also hear it used in the middle of any particular sentence, presumably to describe a simplification of what's being ... http://tkincher.com/blog/2008/06/26/basically-driving-me-mad/ Just a picture I threw together while I was on the endless train ride home. I guess I've always liked the idea of a cyborg Lincoln, perhaps it's the iconicity of the guy. http://tkincher.com/blog/2008/06/19/dishonest-abe/ I mostly use MySpace as a place where old friends and enemies alike can hunt me down with surprising ease, but once in a while-- generally on the order of a few times a week-- I get MySpace spam too, scantily clad "real girls" advertising some online hookup service or ... http://tkincher.com/blog/2008/03/25/about-me-drop-tables/ In the end, it wasn't so very secret. Ostensibly, you would find out about it via MySpace, by having the band listed as a friend and having the fortune of logging with the right window of time. Or you could have read the blurb in The Mercury and tried to ... http://tkincher.com/blog/2008/03/07/sm-the-jicks-secret-show/ "In the future, everyone will be a suspect for 25 hours." -Ruidh's Corollary to Warhol's Law http://tkincher.com/blog/2008/01/18/ruidhs-corollary/ Something frequently encountered when using computers is the ubiquitous error message. There are lots of them that are inane, and, indeed, there are sites out there with whole sections devoted to this. But there's another peculiar brand of error message: The Incredibly Specific Error. For instance, this java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Path does ... http://tkincher.com/blog/2008/01/14/the-incredibly-specific-error/ Rather than discuss any of these at length...  here were my favorite things from this past year. Video Games 7. Guitar Hero 3 6. Puzzle Quest 5. Assassin's Creed 4. Super Mario Galaxy 3. Skate 2. Mass Effect 1. Rock Band Albums 7. Sondre Lerche - Phantom Punch 6. Apostle of Hustle - The National Anthem of Nowhere 5. Pseudosix - Pseudosix 4. ... http://tkincher.com/blog/2007/12/11/2007-the-year-in-lists-of-7/ Democratic presidential debate canceled over strike LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A televised debate set for next month among the Democratic presidential candidates will be canceled to avoid a potential conflict with striking Hollywood screenwriters, a source close to organizers said on Wednesday. http://tkincher.com/blog/2007/12/11/and-you-thought-they-werent-scripted-responses/ A minor tragedy. All of the music is replaceable, but not all of the CDs are. I hardly ever forget to lock my car, but I guess the threat level has been upgraded to orange, now. The silver lining here is that they didn't take anything else, ... http://tkincher.com/blog/2007/12/05/top-5-cds-stolen-from-my-car-this-morning/