Gregor J. Rothfuss

my location on maps. finally! - Gregor J. Rothfuss

and by helping, we mean spamming. - Gregor J. Rothfuss

hmmm. have to try - Gregor J. Rothfuss

"so you can operate a fax". things must be getting desperate. - Gregor J. Rothfuss

try using a cordless phone when the electricity goes out. - Rekha Murthy

"Ben Turner and Chris Jones have borrowed the IPC message-passing and setup code from Chromium." - Gregor J. Rothfuss

40 of the largest cities in the world, home to 18% of the world's population, "produce 2/3 of global economic output and nearly 9 in 10 new patented innovations." A Canadian demographer figured that "80-90% of GNP growth occurs in cities." - Gregor J. Rothfuss

flash based. who needs desktop apps? - Gregor J. Rothfuss

you can never go wrong with bruce campbell - Gregor J. Rothfuss

Micro-Air Vehicles, or MAVs, about the size of a sparrow, ready to fly by 2015 and dragonfly-sized drones ready to fly in swarms by 2030. - Gregor J. Rothfuss

The official Unemployment rate is 9.4% but digging deeper suggests that the real rate in the US may be closer to 20%. - Gregor J. Rothfuss

Italian Company uses an RC scale model Submarine to lay fiber through city's sewage system - Gregor J. Rothfuss

Spanning centuries, the book includes transcendent math, alternate realities, corporate dystopias, traveling carnivals, post-singularity godlike AIs, geoengineering, and mechanical hobos, each integral to the plot. - Gregor J. Rothfuss

paging bruce sterling for OMG globalization commentary - Gregor J. Rothfuss

"Eating Szechuan peppercorns has to be one of the strangest culinary experiences I’ve had. There’s a war in my mouth.” - Gregor J. Rothfuss

mmm... love em!! - к2פ

Yes, they're fabulous. And now legal in the US! - Daniel Dulitz

"Today, scientific publishers are production companies. In 10 years, scientific publishers will be technology companies." - Gregor J. Rothfuss

nice. which government IT projects are on schedule & on budget. can't wait until this comes to other sleepy departments with their no-bid shenanigans. - Gregor J. Rothfuss

If the world's biggest pop star only made $25 million a year in total, something's very, very wrong. That's the big problem behind the zombieconomy. We don't reward people for creating, growing, nurturing, or even remixing assets. We just reward them for allocating the same old assets. - Gregor J. Rothfuss

Through the NYC Big Apps annual competition, the City will provide an array of data sets to encourage the public to develop applications that could benefit New Yorkers. - Gregor J. Rothfuss

Concepts like "aging well" and "golden years" are as counter-intuitive as describing someone with cancer or MS as "diseasing well". - Gregor J. Rothfuss

more reading material, though i already read 3/9 - Gregor J. Rothfuss

more sophonts - Gregor J. Rothfuss

a smoky whiskey from switzerland. who knew? it competes favorably. - Gregor J. Rothfuss

"It turns out that the Sun seems to move between spiral arms every 140 million years" - Gregor J. Rothfuss

wherein the US government believes their own security theater. we also learn that "data thieves routinely scour these hard drives for sensitive information". - Gregor J. Rothfuss

the banking sector needs an engineering DNA, not a frat boy DNA. how incompetent do you have to be to consider error rates of 10% normal? - Gregor J. Rothfuss

"Because their union contract makes it extremely difficult to fire them, the teachers have been banished by the school system to its "rubber rooms" — off-campus office space where they wait months, even years, for their disciplinary hearings." i wonder where we would be today if the republicans had spent the last 8 years doing something useful like union bashing instead of chasing gays and starting wars. - Gregor J. Rothfuss