An awful haiku.

Deathcube, what great mass!
Rubber over the solid heart
of a neutron star.

A quick sketch from last night's "Welcome to Simmons" talk

Done in the corner of some scrap paper. I've played around with some post editing in Gimp. Best part was the "Fire Alarm Prevention/ Popcorn Cooking 101" bit. Wish I could have sketched that instead, but I was out of paper space.

A Native Google Talk Client for Linux(Sort of)

I've been using Google Talk more frequently as of late, but upon investigation, I was disappointed to learn that Google hasn't released a Linux client for Google Talk. I did, however, notice a reference to a "native" (whatever that's supposed to mean) ChromeOS client. Since I knew that ChromeOS is running Linux under the hood, I decided to check it out. Amazingly, despite wads of yellow tape warning me that it would wreak havoc on my computer and slay my firstborn, it seems to work seamlessly as a Linux client for Talk in Ubuntu 11.04! Video chatting between two semi-native clients doesn't always work, and using both the client and, say, gmail chat at the same time has it's rough edges, but it's fine.