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Monthly Archives: August 2013

education versus indoctrination / government and overstepping

Statist Agendas

Posted on August 27, 2013 by freebore • Leave a comment

I expect articles in The New Yorker to be thoughtful if biased, but I never expected this. The “blog” writer, Avery Johnson, tries to rewrite climate, educational history, and class history with this astounding intro to the article The Day-Camp Boom: “The beloved ritual of summer vacation is often said to have begun in agrarian … Continue reading →

digital lifestyle / great companies doing silly things

Daily surfing failures

Posted on August 6, 2013 by freebore • Leave a comment

I went to Philips‘ site to compare their various headlamps for autos. I picked two for comparison. The results were: 12V versus 12.8V, and both were the same wattage. Oh, yeah. How about… Lumens? Color temp? Expected life? Lots of pretty Flash, though. Now I’m worried about that 0.8V! (Not really. There’s almost nothing 12.0V … Continue reading →

digital lifestyle / linux / mint / ubuntu

Mint 14 Can’t Burn

Posted on August 2, 2013 by freebore • Leave a comment

After some struggles with a previous distro, I installed Mint 14 64-bit Cinnamon on my Desktop earlier this year, and couldn’t be more happy with it. It “just works”. Until today. Today I got a new laptop (yeah!) because my old one died (boo) and went to burn the latest, Mint 15, on the Desktop … Continue reading →

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