The Royce Files

I t's been a crazy week trying to eek out a decent radio script while trying to keep active and make sure I don't forget to do some Christmas shopping. Hectic, hectic, hectic. That's why I perfer margin. It got so crazy- especially the rapid winter ascension weather- that I nearly missed my homage to Phil on his birthday. Phil has not had much to say on the blog for a while. He's a bit miffed that James has been stealing the thunder on witting comments. Phil is also carrying a little more responsibility, too. Well, today, it's your day Phil to shine. So I present, a few things Phil might have said. "Garbage bags could provide enough energy to last us a whole year if the polar caps suddenly melted- like that's going to happen anytime." On politics- "I could dress up a yard stick and somebody will probably vote for it." On being told there are too many kinds of beer- "Blasphemy! There is only two kinds of beer. Beer you drink now and bee...

T here are a few that abhor the term beta being attached to anything. To them it seems that you released a less than perfect product, that it will be full of errors, that it will make your life miserable when you most expect it. However, I found this article that looks at beta at a different angle and recognizes the creative process. (It also make a connection to Jar Jar Binks.) The articel in turn refers to another article that calls beta a 4 letter word. So we go weaving a trail- let's call it the beta-trail. For the neophytes, beta is a the Greek word for the second letter of their alphabet. (We get the word alphabet from the conglomeration of it with alpha.) Beta has been used by the tech world to denote a software or hardware release that is operational but may have some problems that the developers have not found. It is released into a market so interested folks can toy with it, break it, hack it, and generally attempt to screw it up. And the developers are happy to do this. ...