Bless me, Father; I ate a lizard.
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. -- Judge Learned Hand 1944
It should be obvious that these pages represent the opinions of Greg Alexander and no one else. Not my employer, nor any of the various civic organizations I may participate in.
When I grow up I want to be a Russian.
Handy table:
A story of some interactions with Comcast, painting a muddled picture.
Transunion sucks, and so does American Family Insurance
Moore's constant - a little reference of Moore's constant computed for various technology domains.
Lenovo U150 Linux user experience
The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing - free online book of extraordinary quality. I started to read this thing when I was a teenager and it taught me a ton that I still use.
Insteon sucks - just a warning about the flavor of the koolaid from a taste-tester's perspective.
My struggles with Maemo - a documentation of my experiences with the delightful smartphone OS from Nokia (run on an N810).
An open and short letter to google: the next-generation open pda cellphone will not conform to the T-Mobile Terms of Service. Therefore, the G1 is not it. Nice try, but fail on account of stupidity.
CatEye bicycle equipment sucks -- my attempt to disparage a brand which has provided a repetitively disappointing customer experience.
Corporate Spammers -- I'm getting spam to addresses I've only given to certain companies. Shame!
Year Zero sucks -- someone had to say it
Pizza - mostly just propagation of this link.
I like to build things out of PICs!
A numerical analysis of civil war
Sheet music to Theme from The Inner Light (for tin whistle in D). As faithful a representation as I could manage for the song Kamin (Picard) plays at his son's christening.
Pictures from my trip to Chile and Neil's wedding
On nuclear deterrents: a brief cold war analogy that explains why Bush's nuclear policy will cause a very ugly World War III if not immediately checked.
Spam -- if every citizen decides to eliminate one spammer, good things happen.
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement -- my take on responsible breeding practices.
C Ain't Dead A poorly-written polemic about why C programmers are better than ASM programmers, but C++/Python/Java/Haskell programmers have yet to establish an edge.
Nature - order from chaos
Planes, planes, planes!! (last updated December 30, 2005)
UI design: A diatribe on user interfaces.
Look what it takes to be a Hot Melt Glue Expert
The Pain webcomic Which one is your leader?
Macintosh Apple -- mmm yummy
My rant about why modern palmtops suck.
Software Engineering. A little essay about why I'll get you fired.
Thinking Meat. Life is nasty, brutish, and short. What are you going to do about it?
The science of open source (my love for pretentious essays is unbounded)
ratio A simple tool to help you find sets of resistors with a specific ratio among the set of common resistor values (a commissioned work).
Software projects I have developed a lot of crappy little tools over my days, and here is a better organized set of them.
GLIBC SUCKS The Linux world will either leave it behind or be mired in suckitude forever. Are you with me?
Rantings about cell phones -- I cut off my antenna!
A little rant about world wars II and III.
GGB, some sound software
I love my laptop so much that I went through this to reflash it.
I figured out the KB Gear Pablo Graphics Tablet serial protocol
ggLCARS my LCARS (Library Computer Access and Retrieval System) library
several days of webcam footage at 1440x real-time (that means time-lapse).
shortjournal.org the blog to end all blogs or something - now relocated to http://www.galexander.org/sj/.
fartjournal.com the blog to end all blogs or something - now relocated to http://www.galexander.org/fj/.
gregcam! (all greg all the time, or something)
Enjoy some pictures of a "wearable computer" I built in 2001.
Enjoy a short story I wrote in 1997.
Enjoy the goonies webpage.
I built a clock.
This page is hosted on linode.com.
My email address is 
HD-DVD "AACS" key: 09-F9-11-02-9D-74-E3-5B-D8-41-56-C5-63-56-88-C0 (MPAA can suck on my testicles).
Shrubya is a miserable failure.
Santorum is The frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.
Free John Mark Karr
I am a member of Bloomington Transportation Options for People (B-TOP).