Archive for October, 2006

Requisite Halloween Post

In between working at work and working at home, J– and I took a couple hours to lead a few more kids down the path to juvenile diabetes Sugar High City by passing out candy to the trick-or-treating kids.
Chelsea has, like many towns, a designated trick-or-treating time for the kids to minimize the amount [...]

Filed in General, Made Me Laugh 5 Comments so far

Things That Are Bad To Do To Your Computer

In no particular order

Allow cats to rub against the main air vents, causing a sickly build-up of hair, dander, and catiness.
After allowing cats to deposit general catiness, fail to clean inside of computer for 8 weeks…
…then crank up the resolution on your favorite graphics-intensive application (video editing is best; games work in a pinch); Play [...]

Filed in General, Technology 4 Comments so far

Your Tax Dollars At Work

Polling is a pretty well-developed industry. The Usual Suspects may provide an incomplete data set, but they’re by and large an earnest bunch, who give recovery matters a lot of thought, and their responses as individuals count as much as anyone else’s. So what was made of their sacrifice of three hours of a beautiful [...]

Filed in NOLA, News No Responses yet

New Site Content - Google Reader Shared Items

For those on RSS readers, you may have missed the new element on the front page. I’ve added the shared items feed from Google Reader to the sidebar on the site. It will show the last 5 items that I’ve shared from my news feeds.
You can view the page here, as well; there’s also an [...]

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Rush Limbaugh is an Ass

Not that that’s news, but usually I chalk Rush up with most of the idiots on Democratic Underground; you can’t seriously believe 1/1,000,000th of the seething hatred that pours off their lips or keyboards.
But Rush has crossed a line that few will cross in pursuit of their politics. He has labeled a disabled person a [...]

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Space Shot as seen from the ISS

Holy. Frakking. Cool.(click for larger)
 

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WoW Burning Crusade Delayed until January 2007

The latest bump in my online drug will be delayed until January 2007 as Blizzard announced that the World of Warcraft expansion won’t be coming out this year after all.
Maybe I’ll have two level 60 toons to work with when the expansion comes out (as opposed to my single level 60 character, now).
Actually, my playing [...]

Filed in Gaming, News One Response so far

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