Musings of Wired Pig

In the middle of last week a Northwest Airlines flight overshot the Minneapolis airport by 150 miles before the crew realized the error and turned the plane around. Leading to the investigation by NTSB was a 78 minute period of radio silence that started as the plane transited the Denver area shortly before 8pm Eastern. The flight originated in San Diego. Radio contact was not reestablished until after the aircraft had overflown Minneapolis.

I am not, and never have been, a writer. This is a simple fact and one I have stated before. I have, and will continue to state it because I would love to be a writer. At the core, its pure envy.
I have sat before the screen and easily pounded out a short 1000 word [...]

Today is launch day for Windows 7 around the world. And, being both an Apple and Windows user, I was looking forward to installing it on my early 2006 Intel iMac… but whoa… not so fast there you renegade you…

Today’s thought is on expectations.

I came across this while studying up on H1N1 . According to one article , the H1N1 mortality rate is 1 per 1,000 infected with 40 of the infected needing hospitalization. Even the seasonal flu has mortality rate similar to that of H1N1  at less than 0.1%. Even this is low when compared to H5N1 [...]

In honor of J.C. Huthins upcoming release of 7th Son Book One: Decent, I am dusting off a graphic I made a while back. Its a Griffin/Hale 2008 image suitable for use as an avatar. The image measures 300px x 300 px and can be downloaded by clicking on the image.

Griffin Hale Avatar by Wired [...]

The story — a modern-day tale about human cloning, memory recording, government conspiracies and a villain bent on global chaos — captured the imagination of tens of thousands of listeners. Thanks to the quality of the story and the evangelism of these fans, an editor at St. Martin’s Press took notice of 7th Son: [...]

My first thought is that I lack creativity. I’m not artistic. Not in the least.

This is not my usual post on how I was able to hack Wordpress to get it to do what I wanted. This post falls under the umbrella of black hat and your blog at risk.

I don’t get it… and I don’t blame Obama.
The Nobel Prize committee has nominated President Barack Obama for the Nobel Peace Prize. This is good. Honestly. But its the fact that their own nomination guidelines make it difficult for him to have won. If not out and out impossible.
You see, nomination for the peace prize [...]