http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/ Essays and other nonsense. en-us david@rouseworld.org 2007-05-20T17:13:29-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/archives/2007/05/20/rock_talk_rock_and_authenticity/ Rock and Roll and the Vain Hunt for Authenticity Is there any other endeavor besides Rock, where the pursuit of authenticity, leads us all the way back around to the horribly fake? Way back in the day Eddie Van Halen,... 470@http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/ 2007-05-20T17:13:29-05:00 http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/archives/2007/03/17/new_car/ A Stupendous AnachronismOrRouse Gets a 'New' Vehicle(new to me, anyway) For most of my life, except for a brief stint in a V8 Plymouth Satellite station wagon as a teenager, I've driven kind of un-macho vehicles. I went to college... 462@http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/ 2007-03-17T19:12:25-05:00 http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/archives/2006/04/09/for_the_week_of_4906/ CPAN-Hell Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Package ManagersBefore I start my story, let me tell you how I'm a big Sun snob and I like Sun's attitude (a bit changed recently) of building workstations that are... 448@http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/ 2006-04-09T11:29:05-05:00 http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/archives/2005/02/20/for_the_week_of_22005/ 425@http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/ 2005-02-20T20:16:47-05:00 http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/archives/2005/02/06/for_the_week_of_2605/ Gadget BoyStrikes Again:The Sony Ericsson T637 For a while now I've been a little unhappy with my cell phone, an older Sony Ericsson T68i. Through the years both the antenna and sound had gotten to were I couldn't really trust... 423@http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/ 2005-02-06T12:32:43-05:00 http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/archives/2005/01/23/for_the_week_of_12305/ 420@http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/ 2005-01-23T14:46:14-05:00 http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/archives/2004/09/12/for_the_week_of_91204/ Austin Meyer's Space Combat A review (of sorts) (RouseWorld Labs) — I've been a fan of Austin Myer's flight simulator X-Plane for some time now, and I've recently downloaded his Space Combat spaceflight simulator. Like it's cousin X-Plane, Space... 408@http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/ 2004-09-12T17:24:40-05:00 http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/archives/2004/08/01/for_the_week_of_8104/ The Craft Rant Or... How much better is difficult? (RouseWorld Labs) — Must a task be physically difficult or time consuming to be considered a craft? The question comes from people who consider computers an enemy of craft, by... 400@http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/ 2004-08-01T19:27:35-05:00 http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/archives/2004/05/09/for_the_week_of_51004/ Have a nice life yourself or... Worst. Party. Ever. (Durham) — The lads had sent the word out -- one of the last of the hard-core bachelors was getting hitched, and "Frodie" wanted him sent out Durham style. The... 386@http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/ 2004-05-09T14:52:21-05:00 http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/archives/2002/02/18/for_the_week_of_21802/ I've got a vision of The Future (RouseWorld Labs) — They (and you know how they can be) are trying to make a microchip that would cost (hopefully) a nickle or less that could be put on every packaged... 365@http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/ 2002-02-18T13:00:00-05:00 http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/archives/2002/02/03/for_the_week_of_2302/ 366@http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/ 2002-02-03T13:00:00-05:00 http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/archives/2002/01/12/for_the_week_of_11202/ 367@http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/ 2002-01-12T13:00:00-05:00 http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/archives/2001/09/23/for_the_week_of_92301/ Learning Software: Approaching computers through Zen (Goldsboro) — Different people have different ways of trying to learn computer software. Some people attempt to break down every task into a set of fixed steps and then memorize the steps. The... 364@http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/ 2001-09-23T13:00:00-05:00 http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/archives/2001/08/20/for_the_week_of_82001/ A Game Show Idea: Pennies from Heaven (Bob Barker's House) — I've got a really horrible idea for a game show, or rather an idea for a really horrible game show. We'll call it Pennies from Heaven. The game... 369@http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/ 2001-08-20T13:00:00-05:00 http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/archives/2001/07/09/for_the_week_of_7901/ What I want to do Should I happen to win The lottery (Easy Street) — Everyone has an idea of what they would do if they won a large lottery. Mine is no more silly than most I guess.... 361@http://www.rouseworld.org/packet/ 2001-07-09T13:00:00-05:00