Diablo, Planescape, those "Whatever his name is" Gate games are all nothing but cute graphical interfaces to a tiny subset of Nethack's gamely. The gameplay is the ONLY thing. Yes, the interface is ASCII, but it's still around, still being enhanced and still more complex and detailed than any of the pretenders with glitz and glamor.
Nethack is proof positive that Open Source workes for the game core. Sadly, the same has yet to be proven true for graphics and 3D engines.....
Besides, you gotta love a game with instructions written by Eric S. Raymond.
You'd also have to boycott Haggen Dazs, Green Giant, Old El Paso, Totino's, Progresso, Jeno's and Martha White.
Cool! I'm already boycotting them and didn't even know it.
In all seriousness though, I would like to given them a chance to respond before a boycott. (As if little 'ole me boycotting them will make much difference to them)
I say if they don't apologize by Tuesday we start the political activism. I've had it with all these #)&$@ corporations deciding their bottom line is more important than right and wrong. I don't want to live under Corporate Feudalism anymore.
The head lawyer rises at the mahogany table and begins to speak. "Gentlemen, we have to crack down on the unwashed masses using our trademark terms. The NAZI 'final solution' practices taught us that we need to start small. If we jump straight to suing the schools who dilute our trademarks, we'll have a public outcry, but if they're the last stage of the plan, no one will whimper because they'll know it's just part of the program. The question is, where do we begin?"
One of the drones raises his hand, "Sir, I think we need a group that the masses already fear. People who are ridiculed and downtrodden, yet not the focal point of sympathy. We need to start with a group who is the focal point of many people's frustration, rage and fear, people who are misunderstood and picked on by the popular people who everyone looks up to."
The head lawyer frowns at the drone, "And where are we going to find a group of people who use our trade marks, are not very popular and are either hated , feared or detested by the masses?"
The drone smiles. "Computer geeks use the term 'bake-off' for software testing."
The head lawyer's eyes light up. "Drone 2974, you're a genius! Start the cease and desist letters immediately!"
</humor>
Anyway, my computer geek background and my considerable cooking skills inspired me to come up with the following recipe for Dough-Boy cakes.
First, you start with a basic pound cake or Mazitpan recipe. If using a pound cake recipe, you need to add flour to create a very dense dough.
Roll the dough into circles for the head, an oval for the chest and smaller ovals for the legs and arms. If you're feeling creative you can even make the hat and add some food coloring.
Dear God in Heaven, PLEASE let this be a joke. This is a hoax, right? Pillsbury isn't REALLY this stupid and asinine, is it? Their lawyeres aren't really this insane are they????????
I'll just have to boycott them. Whose with me?
Come on, you know being boycotted by a group that probably makes up 40% of their business would hurt the suckers, and it's not like boycotting the MPAA because there are a LOT of alternatives to Pillsbury products!
Let's go to the bulletin board on their web site and post what we think of them, shall we??
Jump Ship. There is NO reason for you to stay with a dying company. Give your friends good references. Feel no guilt. You'll be kicking yourself for losing those job offers whent the comany does fold.
Online intellectual property piracy is a fallacy.
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Napster has been responsible for most of my recent CD purchases. Tired of getting burned by CDs with two good songs and 10 terrible ones, I'd drifted away from modern music, but then Napster came along, and I got to preview all the music for a download. I ended up buying CDs of groups I never would have listened to otherwise, or had only heard one or two songs by them on the radio.
I'd chalked up the whole "Harry Potter" thing to the "Latest cool thingine" style craze that brought us Pokemon. Then I stumbled across the first three books in text form on Usenet. Yes, I read the first three for free, but I got addicted to books I NEVER would have read otherwise. I bought the fourth book, will be buying the rest of the series as it comes out (Unless it starts to suck) and will probably take my little sister to see the movie when it comes out.
Bottom line is, having books and music available online has caused me to buy MORE instead of less.
Heck, I even ended up buying the hard copy of an O'Reily book I already had in the Perl CD Bookshelf because I wanted a hard copy to mark up, dog ear and bookmark instead of having to fire up my browser every time I wanted to look up a code snippet.
And now I've read the first chapter to Black on Black and look forward to perusing it on my Palm during my next flight.
The simple fact is, the benefits of Cell phones, PDAs and 900 mhz CPUs are limited so far as the average consumer is concerned.
Running water, sanitation and medical aid have tangible benefits, like longer life span, increased health and reduced BO.
Most of the major "We need this to survive" itches have been scratched already. Until we develop telepathy or Star Trek style travel technology, there will not be any major, life altering changes, just incremental upgrades to what we already have.
What do computers give you? Frustration every time it crashes (Unless you're running BSD or BE, then you're frustrated by file format incompatibilities with the other OSes, but I digress) Most users don't care about computers beyond word processing. More advanced users care about spreadsheets e-mail and web surfing. In the end, only Ubergeeks like my fellow SlashDot readers care about computers beyond the basics.
Most of the technology that's been developed in the last 50 years involved the creation, manipulation and transfer of information, that's just not as vital as being able to see well after the sun goes down.
There's also the infrastructure issue. With a few government subsidies, even rural areas could get connected to the phone system by building a few buildings and digging some trenches, but running clean line for DSL and installing the hardware at the various offices disturbs existing infrastructure. Someone's phone access might be disrupted, and the technology just doesn't offer the massive benefits that the early land lines did.
Adding a GPS system, cellular emergency call button and map database to cars will do more for the mass consumers (Once the technology is wide spread and inexpensive) than the latest and greatest VooDoo chip or Load Balancing innovations in MS-Windows 20xx.
We'll never have the flying cars that have been promised since the 1930's because the infrastructure to support them would disrupt commercial airlines. Until we run out of oil, we'll never have Ethanol, Natural Gas or other alternative-fuel cars in nationwide use, because the infrastructure to support them (Refuelling stations, repair centers, dealerships) is too expensive to justify the trouble and cost for most consumers, and even then, they'll just be a tweak to existing technology.
Yep. Did you also know that metal knives didn't replace flint knives until Roman times? While available for a few thousand years before then, it just wasn't possible to get a metal knife to keep an edge as well as flint until around the time of Rome's rise to power.
Plus, a knife does more damage and doesn't have that pesky battery problem like a tazer.
Stone knives don't care if an EMP hits you, or if a giant magnet is trying to extract all your weapons. Flint knives often have a sharper edge than many of the low to mid-range weapons sold today, and they're made of materials that require less energy and infrastructure to extract and shape. It's a lot easier to spend an hour making a new stone knife than it is to mine ore, refine the metal, shape it and sharpen it....
Grandpa worked on the Pioneer line, not Voyager, so it's not his fault. That little twerp Johnson was the one who said, "Hey, let's make it tough enough to survive a wormhole!"
Every Linux user won't migrate, but M$ will be the company that forks Linux into new versions. Businesses will evaluate M$ Linux as if it were the only Linux, the press will assume that any problems M$ Linus has will be problems for the rest of the Linux distros, because as we all know the media is pretty clueless about Linux and Operating Systems. All Linux coverage will mention Linux as being distributed by M$. Red HAt stories will mention that Linux is "An operating system distributed by Microsoft and several smaller vendors." MS-Linux will BE Linux to most users.
M$ will go after the clients that SuSe and Red Hat get now, and all the business supported Linux Distros will die when faced with such a direct threat from Uncle Bill. There will be Debian, Slaskware and MS-Linux. All the others will be consumed by M$.
We will keep the hobby market, but we will lose the business and desktop forever. Hardware support will become harder and harder as the Hardware companies make deals with M$ to give them the specs and not us.
Enjoy the Glory Days of Linux. Enjoy them while they last, for soon, Linux will be embraced and extended by Microsoft.
Back in my day, we built probes that would last decades. Forget this disposable, one-use crap you kids go in for now. When we launched something, even if it was designed for a six month mission, we EXPECTED it to last until our grandkids were running things, so they could look up and know that we were better at building this stuff than they could ever hope to be.
And we used a slide rule for everything! That little chunk of plastic and metal you use to play games has more computing power than all of NASA had when Pioneer 6 was launched!
Everyone knows that as soon as Linux becomes a threat, Microsoft will release their own distro. It will NOT be compatible with existing distros, but it will become the "Standard" for Linux because it's a Microsoft product. They might trample the GPL. they might now, but you can be certain your Linux Apps won't run on MS-Linux. If we're lucky it will have.NET.
Remember what they did to Stacker? To PC DOS? Face facts, M$ will eat Linux for lunch as soon as they feel the need to do so. Perhaps they'll just steal Linux code and use it in Windows (Like they did with Stacker), or their version of Windows will ONLY run applications compiled with "Blessed" compilers, causing mysterious crashes when a program compiled with the GNU compiler is launched (Like they did to PC-DOS when Windows was first released)
As a matter of fact, I have proof of what I say. Here's a link to the new M$ Linus distro to be released soon.
Did anyone else see something strange in the Jupiter photos? A black object floating near Jupiter? Kinda like a long rectangle, black, no visible surface features. Looks like a large Hershey bar...
Well, Venus has a lot of Sulfuric Acid rain, but the air pressure is apparently too high for pools or oceans of the stuff to form. Light breezes carry half ton boulders around like grains of sand, and no probe has lasted on the surface for more than a couple of minutes.
The company I work for provides Continuing Education to Securities and Insurance Brokers, and as the MIS director, I get to review the exams at my leisure. You wouldn't believe how many of these bozos don't know basic terms like Money Laundering and Annuity. It genuinely frightens me that these people are trading stocks and selling Insurance.
The course people fail the most: Ethics
The main reason Online CE is growing so fast in the Securities and Insurance Industries is because online exams can be taken until you pass, as opposed to paper exams that you take and retake, usually paying extra fees for each retake. It's amazing how many of these morons retake the exams five or six times before passing, and they're multiple choice exams with only four options per question!
One of our competitors (SEII) is even worse. You aren't allowed to move on to the next question until you've gotten the current question right.
"I'm sorry, 'A' is not the correct answer, try again"
"I'm sorry, 'B' is not the correct answer, try again"
"I'm sorry, 'C' is not the correct answer, try again"
"'D' is Correct! click the button to move on to question 5"
In short, I wouldn't doubt the character's authenticity as a broker just because he didn't know the terms. About 10% of those clowns know what's going on, the rest are the Business World Equivalent of AOL users.
I just send my e-mail in a special Pidgin Pig Latin Esperanto dialect I and some friends developed, then save it to file with WordPerfect 3.0. Then I send the file via e-mail. Don't even need PGP. Sometimes I can't read my own stuff, let the FBI do it's worst.
Now all they have to do is engineer nano - factories into our skin so these suckers can be churned out in the thousands and emitted in a aerosol - like spray from our skin to deflect bullets and intercept rockets....
The tests are long and vague, relying on a persona's ability to understand themselves. The tests attempt at weeding out self serving answers (I want to seem more sensitive so I'll pick this option on question 23) by having redundant questions, but the bottom line is they are pretty much useless.
Go ahead and read the descriptions the tests give of the different personality types. You'll find that your personality is probably reflected to some degree in each one of them. It's like a horoscope. It's incredibly vague to the point where anyone can see some kernel of how it relates to them. You might as well read your horoscope on www.theonion.com as rely on the MB tests.
As a final note, there are classes on how to "beat" the tests. It's not as much fun as the courses on throwing off lie detector tests but it does show how the MB is only good for entertainment purposes.
In my opinion, any PHB who even bothers to give his staff the bloody test should be fired ASAP for incompetence.
BTW: I'd do the same to anyone who uses a horoscope in the workplace too.
Dual Processor, overclocked to 1.6Ghz, 4 Gig RAM, 20GB RAID....
And 2,000 of them in a Beowolf Cluster....
Drool...
Put it on a T3 and I will be the Quake III God!!!!!!
http://www.matthewmiller.net
Diablo, Planescape, those "Whatever his name is" Gate games are all nothing but cute graphical interfaces to a tiny subset of Nethack's gamely. The gameplay is the ONLY thing. Yes, the interface is ASCII, but it's still around, still being enhanced and still more complex and detailed than any of the pretenders with glitz and glamor.
Nethack is proof positive that Open Source workes for the game core. Sadly, the same has yet to be proven true for graphics and 3D engines.....
Besides, you gotta love a game with instructions written by Eric S. Raymond.
http://www.nethack.org/
http://www.matthewmiller.net
It's so fast-
How fast is it?
It's so fast, it takes TWO halt instructions to stop it!
Humor that predates the Arpanet
www.matthewmiller.net
Cool! I'm already boycotting them and didn't even know it.
In all seriousness though, I would like to given them a chance to respond before a boycott. (As if little 'ole me boycotting them will make much difference to them)
I say if they don't apologize by Tuesday we start the political activism. I've had it with all these #)&$@ corporations deciding their bottom line is more important than right and wrong. I don't want to live under Corporate Feudalism anymore.
http://www.matthewmiller.netPilsbury Legal Offices:
The head lawyer rises at the mahogany table and begins to speak. "Gentlemen, we have to crack down on the unwashed masses using our trademark terms. The NAZI 'final solution' practices taught us that we need to start small. If we jump straight to suing the schools who dilute our trademarks, we'll have a public outcry, but if they're the last stage of the plan, no one will whimper because they'll know it's just part of the program. The question is, where do we begin?"
One of the drones raises his hand, "Sir, I think we need a group that the masses already fear. People who are ridiculed and downtrodden, yet not the focal point of sympathy. We need to start with a group who is the focal point of many people's frustration, rage and fear, people who are misunderstood and picked on by the popular people who everyone looks up to."
The head lawyer frowns at the drone, "And where are we going to find a group of people who use our trade marks, are not very popular and are either hated , feared or detested by the masses?"
The drone smiles. "Computer geeks use the term 'bake-off' for software testing."
The head lawyer's eyes light up. "Drone 2974, you're a genius! Start the cease and desist letters immediately!"
</humor>
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For those of you who don't know, Pilsbury is sending cease and desist orders to a variety of organizations who use the term "bake-off."
The most recent round of such letters went to computer companies who use the term for a state of software testing. Salon has an article about it online. http://www.salon.com/tech/log/2001/01/19/pillsbur
Your local school could be next!
Anyway, my computer geek background and my considerable cooking skills inspired me to come up with the following recipe for Dough-Boy cakes.
First, you start with a basic pound cake or Mazitpan recipe. If using a pound cake recipe, you need to add flour to create a very dense dough.
Roll the dough into circles for the head, an oval for the chest and smaller ovals for the legs and arms. If you're feeling creative you can even make the hat and add some food coloring.
The more sadistic among us can shape the head with skeleton features to indicate a cooked Dough-Boy who met a gruesome end, as in the picture here: http://members.tripod.com/laffs/images/Doughboy.j
Serve and enjoy.
http://www.matthewmiller.net
Dear God in Heaven, PLEASE let this be a joke. This is a hoax, right? Pillsbury isn't REALLY this stupid and asinine, is it? Their lawyeres aren't really this insane are they????????
I'll just have to boycott them. Whose with me?
Come on, you know being boycotted by a group that probably makes up 40% of their business would hurt the suckers, and it's not like boycotting the MPAA because there are a LOT of alternatives to Pillsbury products!
Let's go to the bulletin board on their web site and post what we think of them, shall we??
http://www.matthewmiller.net
Jump Ship. There is NO reason for you to stay with a dying company. Give your friends good references. Feel no guilt. You'll be kicking yourself for losing those job offers whent the comany does fold.
http://www.matthewmiller.net
Text Version here
Palm Version here
www.matthewmiller.net, causing trouble since, whenever
There are several readers available, many of which are freeware or open source. Http://www.palm-press.com/ has more info, as does
http://www.peanutpress.com and there's even a Slashdot article on it
Don't forget:
http://www.memoware.com/
http://www.tomeraider.com/
www.matthewmiller.net
Napster has been responsible for most of my recent CD purchases. Tired of getting burned by CDs with two good songs and 10 terrible ones, I'd drifted away from modern music, but then Napster came along, and I got to preview all the music for a download. I ended up buying CDs of groups I never would have listened to otherwise, or had only heard one or two songs by them on the radio.
I'd chalked up the whole "Harry Potter" thing to the "Latest cool thingine" style craze that brought us Pokemon. Then I stumbled across the first three books in text form on Usenet. Yes, I read the first three for free, but I got addicted to books I NEVER would have read otherwise. I bought the fourth book, will be buying the rest of the series as it comes out (Unless it starts to suck) and will probably take my little sister to see the movie when it comes out.
Bottom line is, having books and music available online has caused me to buy MORE instead of less.
Heck, I even ended up buying the hard copy of an O'Reily book I already had in the Perl CD Bookshelf because I wanted a hard copy to mark up, dog ear and bookmark instead of having to fire up my browser every time I wanted to look up a code snippet.
And now I've read the first chapter to Black on Black and look forward to perusing it on my Palm during my next flight.
www.matthewmiller.net
Nothing new here. Slashdot ran a story a while back about a slug hunting robot that is powered by digesting the slugs it catches.
www.matthewmiller.net
The simple fact is, the benefits of Cell phones, PDAs and 900 mhz CPUs are limited so far as the average consumer is concerned.
Running water, sanitation and medical aid have tangible benefits, like longer life span, increased health and reduced BO.
Most of the major "We need this to survive" itches have been scratched already. Until we develop telepathy or Star Trek style travel technology, there will not be any major, life altering changes, just incremental upgrades to what we already have.
What do computers give you? Frustration every time it crashes (Unless you're running BSD or BE, then you're frustrated by file format incompatibilities with the other OSes, but I digress) Most users don't care about computers beyond word processing. More advanced users care about spreadsheets e-mail and web surfing. In the end, only Ubergeeks like my fellow SlashDot readers care about computers beyond the basics.
Most of the technology that's been developed in the last 50 years involved the creation, manipulation and transfer of information, that's just not as vital as being able to see well after the sun goes down.
There's also the infrastructure issue. With a few government subsidies, even rural areas could get connected to the phone system by building a few buildings and digging some trenches, but running clean line for DSL and installing the hardware at the various offices disturbs existing infrastructure. Someone's phone access might be disrupted, and the technology just doesn't offer the massive benefits that the early land lines did.
Adding a GPS system, cellular emergency call button and map database to cars will do more for the mass consumers (Once the technology is wide spread and inexpensive) than the latest and greatest VooDoo chip or Load Balancing innovations in MS-Windows 20xx.
We'll never have the flying cars that have been promised since the 1930's because the infrastructure to support them would disrupt commercial airlines. Until we run out of oil, we'll never have Ethanol, Natural Gas or other alternative-fuel cars in nationwide use, because the infrastructure to support them (Refuelling stations, repair centers, dealerships) is too expensive to justify the trouble and cost for most consumers, and even then, they'll just be a tweak to existing technology.
www.matthewmiller.net
Yep. Did you also know that metal knives didn't replace flint knives until Roman times? While available for a few thousand years before then, it just wasn't possible to get a metal knife to keep an edge as well as flint until around the time of Rome's rise to power.
Plus, a knife does more damage and doesn't have that pesky battery problem like a tazer.
Stone knives don't care if an EMP hits you, or if a giant magnet is trying to extract all your weapons. Flint knives often have a sharper edge than many of the low to mid-range weapons sold today, and they're made of materials that require less energy and infrastructure to extract and shape. It's a lot easier to spend an hour making a new stone knife than it is to mine ore, refine the metal, shape it and sharpen it....
AND they don't rust!
www.matthewmiller.net, the web site that doesn't rust
The dope.
www.matthewmiller.net
Every Linux user won't migrate, but M$ will be the company that forks Linux into new versions. Businesses will evaluate M$ Linux as if it were the only Linux, the press will assume that any problems M$ Linus has will be problems for the rest of the Linux distros, because as we all know the media is pretty clueless about Linux and Operating Systems. All Linux coverage will mention Linux as being distributed by M$. Red HAt stories will mention that Linux is "An operating system distributed by Microsoft and several smaller vendors." MS-Linux will BE Linux to most users.
M$ will go after the clients that SuSe and Red Hat get now, and all the business supported Linux Distros will die when faced with such a direct threat from Uncle Bill. There will be Debian, Slaskware and MS-Linux. All the others will be consumed by M$.
We will keep the hobby market, but we will lose the business and desktop forever. Hardware support will become harder and harder as the Hardware companies make deals with M$ to give them the specs and not us.
Enjoy the Glory Days of Linux. Enjoy them while they last, for soon, Linux will be embraced and extended by Microsoft.
The doom of us all
Back in my day, we built probes that would last decades. Forget this disposable, one-use crap you kids go in for now. When we launched something, even if it was designed for a six month mission, we EXPECTED it to last until our grandkids were running things, so they could look up and know that we were better at building this stuff than they could ever hope to be.
And we used a slide rule for everything! That little chunk of plastic and metal you use to play games has more computing power than all of NASA had when Pioneer 6 was launched!
Brusing up on using a slide rule: www.matthewmiller.net
Everyone knows that as soon as Linux becomes a threat, Microsoft will release their own distro. It will NOT be compatible with existing distros, but it will become the "Standard" for Linux because it's a Microsoft product. They might trample the GPL. they might now, but you can be certain your Linux Apps won't run on MS-Linux. If we're lucky it will have .NET.
Remember what they did to Stacker? To PC DOS? Face facts, M$ will eat Linux for lunch as soon as they feel the need to do so. Perhaps they'll just steal Linux code and use it in Windows (Like they did with Stacker), or their version of Windows will ONLY run applications compiled with "Blessed" compilers, causing mysterious crashes when a program compiled with the GNU compiler is launched (Like they did to PC-DOS when Windows was first released)
As a matter of fact, I have proof of what I say. Here's a link to the new M$ Linus distro to be released soon.
www.matthewmiller.netLOL!
Too bad I posted earlier, or I'd mod you up +1 for funny.
Ahh, the memories of the good old days of GWBASIC and PCDOS
Did anyone else see something strange in the Jupiter photos? A black object floating near Jupiter? Kinda like a long rectangle, black, no visible surface features. Looks like a large Hershey bar...
www.matthewmiller.net
Well, Venus has a lot of Sulfuric Acid rain, but the air pressure is apparently too high for pools or oceans of the stuff to form. Light breezes carry half ton boulders around like grains of sand, and no probe has lasted on the surface for more than a couple of minutes.
So Mars is downright friendly by comparison
www.matthewmiller.netThe company I work for provides Continuing Education to Securities and Insurance Brokers, and as the MIS director, I get to review the exams at my leisure. You wouldn't believe how many of these bozos don't know basic terms like Money Laundering and Annuity. It genuinely frightens me that these people are trading stocks and selling Insurance.
The course people fail the most: Ethics
The main reason Online CE is growing so fast in the Securities and Insurance Industries is because online exams can be taken until you pass, as opposed to paper exams that you take and retake, usually paying extra fees for each retake. It's amazing how many of these morons retake the exams five or six times before passing, and they're multiple choice exams with only four options per question!
One of our competitors (SEII) is even worse. You aren't allowed to move on to the next question until you've gotten the current question right.
"I'm sorry, 'A' is not the correct answer, try again"
"I'm sorry, 'B' is not the correct answer, try again"
"I'm sorry, 'C' is not the correct answer, try again"
"'D' is Correct! click the button to move on to question 5"
In short, I wouldn't doubt the character's authenticity as a broker just because he didn't know the terms. About 10% of those clowns know what's going on, the rest are the Business World Equivalent of AOL users.
http://www.matthewmiller.net
I just send my e-mail in a special Pidgin Pig Latin Esperanto dialect I and some friends developed, then save it to file with WordPerfect 3.0. Then I send the file via e-mail. Don't even need PGP. Sometimes I can't read my own stuff, let the FBI do it's worst.
www.matthewmiller.net
Now all they have to do is engineer nano - factories into our skin so these suckers can be churned out in the thousands and emitted in a aerosol - like spray from our skin to deflect bullets and intercept rockets....
The name's Denton, J.C. Denton
Deus Ex Cheats PageThe tests are a crock of road apples.
Now that I've enraged everyone I'll elaborate.
The tests are long and vague, relying on a persona's ability to understand themselves. The tests attempt at weeding out self serving answers (I want to seem more sensitive so I'll pick this option on question 23) by having redundant questions, but the bottom line is they are pretty much useless.
Go ahead and read the descriptions the tests give of the different personality types. You'll find that your personality is probably reflected to some degree in each one of them. It's like a horoscope. It's incredibly vague to the point where anyone can see some kernel of how it relates to them. You might as well read your horoscope on www.theonion.com as rely on the MB tests.
As a final note, there are classes on how to "beat" the tests. It's not as much fun as the courses on throwing off lie detector tests but it does show how the MB is only good for entertainment purposes.
In my opinion, any PHB who even bothers to give his staff the bloody test should be fired ASAP for incompetence.
BTW: I'd do the same to anyone who uses a horoscope in the workplace too.
www.matthewmiller.net