Monthly Archives: January 2004

Linkage.

The cost of space exploration should be keen in our minds, no matter how long ago disaster happened.
It is the anniversary of the Apollo I launch-pad fire.

Ahoy.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen such a wild melding of great gameplay and fine specimens of Engrish as Gunbound.

I wish I had another hour in each day.

well, i can always tell a liar
and i always know a thief
well, i know i’m like my family
’cause brother, i’m the chief
well, i’m a dangerous crusader
’cause i need to tell the truth
so i’m turning over tables
in my own living room
well, i might nail indictments up on every door in town
’cause it’s not right or safe [...]

Let’s hear it for Cheddar X.

1. How do you organize your music?
My CDs are all in a box right now in my office, not in any kind of organized fashion - they’re still in here from when I transferred all of them to my work computer. Every CD I and my wife own is in my iTunes library.
2. Do [...]

The return of the football prophet, and other things.

Page 2’s Jason Whitlock feels that Favre’s dad’s death has been overhyped, by a media who hasn’t paid attention to the kind of guy Favre is and how he elevates the play of his fellow charges.
Eric Neel’s made his picks for the weekend, and he favors the Pack (of course).
The gameday center for the upcoming [...]

I should make this a more regular thing, you know.

God bless Wisconsin - only here, and only at Piggly Wiggly, could a child get stuck inside a crane game.
Canadian astronomers have found a planet that supposedly heats up the star it orbits, rather than the other way around. The catch is that it’s a gas giant almost the size of Jupiter, but it [...]

Interesting expansion.

Bill Gates announced before his CES keynote that Microsoft plans on releasing some kind of expansion for the Xbox that would turn it into a DVR - and increase its set-top functionality.

In other news….

Anyone feel like getting a little paranoid lately? You too can irradiate your own mail.
Tech companies in the United States are defending moving their jobs overseas, basically by claiming that Americans are stupid.
The Mars Global Surveyor has located and taken pictures of both Viking 1 and the Mars Pathfinder. And I must say, [...]

Just some random stuff to start off your day.

Time to throw out the linkage.
It seems that Photoshop CS detects and refuses to allow you to scan U.S., Canadian, and Euro currency of the current year’s series. It refers you to a web site listing legality of scanning banknotes, and refuses to allow you to open or print the file. Rumor has [...]

happy birthday to me

That’s 24.
Go me.

The RPG status report:

For those of my friends who are RPG freaks like me (and I know I have a few), here’s what I’m working on right now and where I’m at:
Kingdom Hearts
I’m currently in Agrabah, trying to figure out where to go after I’ve just landed. Wonderland was wicked cool and somewhat bizarre (the room was [...]

The post-Christmas gift report.

Every year, I do a quick breakdown of what people gave me for Christmas, and so I’m going to do so very quickly right now (very quickly, because I need to get back to family time soon).
The congregation here at Faith was entirely too generous, getting me all sorts of stuff and giving me cash [...]