tim lindner's personal blog

I hope this doesn't turn into a Lost blog, but I have got to get this off my chest. I really believe a new time time has been created by the Losties in the 70s. The Hyrda station has not been cleared of Dharma stuff.

Wil Wheaton posted a wonderful example of how machine reading of text compares unfavorably to a real performance. He performed a small section of one of his stories and played it next to a standard machine reading. The difference was easy to understand. The human…

I've always believed Claire (a character in Lost) died in the destruction of her house by the rocket attack in the episode The Shape of Things to Come. But we also saw her stumbling our of the wreckage, seemingly unharmed. I just re-watched a clip…

Christmas morning in San Jose was especially clear due to the high winds. It's during times like that I know not to go outside. Bright sunny mornings always give me migraine headaches. Of course having sunglasses helps greatly, but I forgot my pair. I should…

The other day my friend Joe and I were comparing computer notes, and I came up with the following list: 1989 - Macintosh IIcx (16 MHz 68030) 1992 - PowerBook 100 (16 MHz 68HC000) 1997 - Power Macintosh 7300/200 (200 MHz 604e) 2002 - Power…