Matter, Energy, and Life of Michaela A. Castello.

Category: Life

Short (and long) reads extracted from my personal life.

  • Don’t Bother Signalling

    Apparently drivers in the Baltimore-Washington area have decided to simply disable their turn signals to prevent accidently activating them when they are doing things on the road, such as, for example, turning. You’d think an action would be completely intuitive, but no—apparently it’s not a requirement, but a courtesy in the same vein as standing…

  • Firefly

    The ill-fated Joss Whedon show Firefly has earned a significant place in overall geek culture, so I have been meaning to watch it for some time now. It’s an excellent take on the space western and I think that for the most part it deserves the fame it has achieved. Unlike other popular sci-fi stories…

  • Left 4 Dead

    Last month three of my buddies/former roommates got together to give me a spectacular Christmas present: my own copy of Valve Software’s latest hit computer game, Left 4 Dead. Of course, the move wasn’t entirely altruistic as the game is designed for four-player co-op. Since then, I’ve been having a grand time blowing a motley…

  • Reformatting—Again

    Tess (my desktop PC) has been having assorted problems over the past few months, so I took the plunge and went for it. A few hours later I’ve managed to get everything up and running and have almost finished wresting Windows XP to my powerful will. This time, once everything appears to be running smoothly,…

  • Button-Fly Jeans

    I have been searching for new pairs of jeans for a while now, a quest that yesterday brought me into H & M in Towson Mall (they have a pretty extensive men’s section compared to their other store instances I have encountered). Yet in the fitting room I was surprised and dismayed to discover that…

  • Going Live…

    I have been tinkering around with this site for a while now, and I think it’s finally gotten to the point where I can start using it. There’s still a lot of work to be done, but I’m ready to let people take a look at it and see what they think. I’ve imported all…

  • Flyleaf Music Video: “Sorrow”

    Flyleaf released a music video for their song, “Sorrow.” I think it’s really good, and not just because it has Lacey Mosley in it. Vote for it on TRL here.

  • More MediaDefender Missteps

    I noticed this story on p2pnet as well as Ars Technica, for those of you who may be put off by a website with “p2p” in the name. Looks like the content industry’s hired gun, MediaDefender, is once again in hot water for breaking and entering on the digital plane. This time, they illicitly injected…