You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, and you think they're probably lying to make you feel better?
Yes.
Everything's going to be fine.

Saturday, January 18

Geek

Could Have Sworn...

I could have sworn I wrote this in my review of Neal Stephenson's Anathem, but I can't find it or my review of Neal Stephenson's Anathem, so here goes.

Pixy's Law of Neuroscience: The intersection of consciousness and quantum mechanics is bullshit.

Oh, and since I seem to have lost my review of Neal Stephenson's Anathem, here's a capsule version.

Anathem, by Neal Stephenson

Tedious and interminable story populated by dishwater characters rises to a climax spectacular only in the disappointment it brings.  The individual sentences are well-crafted - and some of the paragraphs too - but as a novel it fails in every other possible way.

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Wednesday, January 08

Geek

It's Been 25 Years Already?

Big Finish celebrated the 50th Anniversay of Doctor Who by dropping the price on their first 50 recordings to 5 squid a piece.  (Each is a two-disk set, approximately 2 hours of content plus commentary and other bonus items.)

Now they've done the same for volumes 51-75, for the next week.  That range includes The Natural History of Fear, one of the best stories Big Finish have ever done.

I'll pick them up, though I have to admit that I haven't opened the box with volumes 1-50 yet.*

* If you buy the CD, you get the MP3 version for immediate download as well.  So I might never open the box...

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Thursday, January 02

Geek

New Year's Resolution

3840x2160

Dell's 24" ultra-HD monitor has arrived in Australia, and the price is about $200 lower than I was expecting.  I was planning to wait for the consumer-grade 28" model, but the price is low enough* that I think I'll go for the pro version.  I currently have a Dell 27" 2560x1440 display, so this one will be a little smaller but a lot higher resolution.

Then I'll see how Windows 8.1 handles scaling....

Update: A shortcoming: This monitor apparently has no scaler; it only handles its native resolution.  So if your graphics card isn't fast enough to drive a 4K screen in your favourite game, you can't shift down; you're simply out of luck.

Which isn't unreasonable for a professional monitor, but is potentially a problem for me.  I may pair it with a matching Dell 24" 1080p screen - use the main monitor for work, and the low-res screen for extra real-estate and gaming.

In fact, that's a great idea.  I need a retina screen for doing high-resolution site and application design, and I need multiple screens, but I don't need multiple retina screens.  Want, yes.  Need, no.

* At $1559 it's hardly cheap, but I'll spend about 10,000 hours looking at it, so I'm willing to spend a few extra bucks.  The 32" model at $4199 was a few extra bucks too many.

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