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.
Car alarm yadda yadda
Nic gets stuck in customer service hell when he replaces the fob to his car alarm.
No sex until marriage doesn’t seem to work
A study finds that abstinence-only sex education doesn’t work. Nic is not surprised.
Review: The Praxis
The first novel about the Shaa empire is pure and unabashed space opera.
She’s beautiful! Let’s name her Metallica
A Swedish couple decide to name their daughter Metallica. \m/
Done with movie theaters
Nic has (yet another) horrible experience at a movie theater and swears he’s done.
Review: 300
300’s strength and weakness are the same thing: it’s based on a graphic novel.
Review: The Undercover Economist
Marketed as being similar to Freakonomics, which it is not.
The voice in the wilderness
College is a time for drama, as this graffiti artist illustrates.
Early morning coffee
Nic tries to understand why anybody would stop on the way to work to buy coffee when there’s free coffee at work.
Movie roundup, part two
The Departed, The Great Raid, Bastard of the Party, A Scanner Darkly, Sexy Beast, Miami Vice and Layer Cake.
Doing it for free
Why the first job for any technology company is to make their product easy to use.