The Core Dump
The Core Dump is the personal blog of Nic Lindh, a Swedish-American pixel-pusher living in Phoenix, Arizona.
Welcome to Nic's Core Dump. Enjoy.
Movie roundup, part six
Stranger than Fiction, The Black Dahlia, Blades of Glory, Hot Fuzz, Zero Kelvin and March of the Penguins.
Review: JPod
Douglas Coupland continues the exploration of the lives of tech workers he started in Microserfs.
Review: Right as Rain
Hard boiled crime fiction from one of the writers for The Wire.
She rules the night
Nic’s daughter loses her first tooth and the tooth fairy is off to a shaky start.
Review: On Intelligence
Very interesting book about how intelligence works and the challenges we face in trying to build intelligent machines.
The payback begins
The stupid things you say as a teenager have a way of coming back to haunt you.
The winged messenger swoops in
Version control is a necessity for staying sane. Nic looks at some options.
Movie roundup, part five
Pathfinder, Stalker, Pusher and Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny.
Firefox downloading PDFs to Lexmark folder
A solution to a weird Firefox glitch is proffered to the altar of Google.
Review: All Creatures Great and Small
Well-deservedly known as a classic.
The suspension of disbelief
Nic explains why he has a hard time dealing with super hero movies and the ways his brain lets him down.
Review: Stumbling on Happiness
A slim volume on how we determine whether we’re happy or not. Worth reading.
The first five years from a father’s perspective
Being a dad is the best and hardest thing that can happen to a man. Nic looks back at five years of trying to figure it out.