Cannon Beach, Oregon
Cannon Beach, Oregon

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.

You’ve had your car too long when...

Nic Lindh, breaker of car fobs.

Thursday, 19 April, 2007

Desert roses

Pics of the gorgeous cactus roses we get in the Sonoran desert.

Monday, 16 April, 2007

No sex until marriage doesn’t seem to work

A study finds that abstinence-only sex education doesn’t work. Nic is not surprised.

Saturday, 14 April, 2007

Review: The Sundering

The second novel in the space opera.

Monday, 09 April, 2007

Review: The Praxis

The first novel about the Shaa empire is pure and unabashed space opera.

Monday, 09 April, 2007

She’s beautiful! Let’s name her Metallica

A Swedish couple decide to name their daughter Metallica. \m/

Friday, 06 April, 2007

April Fools

You are not funny. Neither is your April Fool’s joke.

Sunday, 01 April, 2007

Done with movie theaters

Nic has (yet another) horrible experience at a movie theater and swears he’s done.

Sunday, 01 April, 2007

Review: 300

300’s strength and weakness are the same thing: it’s based on a graphic novel.

Saturday, 31 March, 2007

Review: The Undercover Economist

Marketed as being similar to Freakonomics, which it is not.

Tuesday, 27 March, 2007

The voice in the wilderness

College is a time for drama, as this graffiti artist illustrates.

Thursday, 22 March, 2007

My mighty, mighty navel

Nic discovers Twitter.

Tuesday, 13 March, 2007

Boosters activated

Nic’s daughter graduates from child seat to booster seat.

Monday, 12 March, 2007

More cat drama

One of our cats gets an enema. I feel her pain.

Sunday, 11 March, 2007

You know you’re a parent...

When you’re a parent your gross meter breaks.

Friday, 09 March, 2007

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.

Wednesday, 07 March, 2007

Movie roundup, part two

The Departed, The Great Raid, Bastard of the Party, A Scanner Darkly, Sexy Beast, Miami Vice and Layer Cake.

Monday, 05 March, 2007

Doing it for free

Why the first job for any technology company is to make their product easy to use.

Tuesday, 27 February, 2007

All your podcasts are belong to us

Nic puts an iPod connector in his car and his life is changed forever.

Sunday, 25 February, 2007

Review: What the Dormouse Said

A great history of the early days of the personal computer revolution.

Sunday, 18 February, 2007

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