Sometimes my ability to find scary pictures of old best friends who are otherwise not on the internet is creepy.
:D
How fun, mapwii!
•March 6, 2007 • Comments Off on How fun, mapwii!www.mapwii.com
On the one hand, it’s a tiny number of wii addresses compared to the overall
# sold. On the other hand, it’s thousands of #’s, and you can find your
area or whatever area you want and trade numbers with strangers. Heh :)
oh, and for those who haven’t seen it – www.wiicade.com is major cool free
fun from the opera browser. I can’t remember where, but I stumbled upon a
fully authentic working version of Duck Hunt (NES) – I was so geeked.
Penguicon
•March 5, 2007 • 12 CommentsFun things I hope to do at penguicon based on the tentative schedule:
floor-sized settlers of catan
lj meet-and-greet
wu ching style tai-chi demo
blender – open source animation software (I have this on my Software for Starving Students CD)
scalzi reading (I think)
buffy
screening of nanotech comedy documentary, “when things get small”
maybe lovecraft’s legacy
maybe life-hacks for the writing process
three or four other things, including the creative commons panel
Clearly, it will be utterly impossible for me to fit all these things in, so all I can hope for is that some people will cancel and the panels will be … less so.
If they DO all show up, this will be an order of magnitude more participation in the “official” part of con than I’ve had in the 11 years I’ve been going.
found on digg.com:
•March 5, 2007 • 17 CommentsSci-Fi wire recently spoke with Lena Headey, who will play Sarah Connor in the upcoming Sci-Fi series The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a spinoff of the Terminator movies, and confirmed that Firefly’s Summer Glau will be a Terminator.
Discuss. :)
Protected: So!
•March 4, 2007 • Enter your password to view comments.Yay, I get to go home at a reasonable hour!
•March 2, 2007 • Comments Off on Yay, I get to go home at a reasonable hour!trasenstine bought me this really cool little camera in a case from an estate sale – she’s almost singlehandedly creating my camera collection, it’s hilarious. :)
Meanwhile, I ebayed a fully functioning (or so I’m told) and very nice looking (portable) 8mm projector. I don’t have any film to test it with yet, but I look forward to plugging it in and checking it out.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a girl to snuggle. And a place to clean up. And geekery to trade at the apple store. And video games to drool over with my geeky sweetheart.
I’ve been workin in the coal mine
Goin’ down, down
Workin’ in the coal mine
Whoop! About to slip dowwwn
Multitouch, part 2
•March 2, 2007 • 6 CommentsSO HOT. SO AWESOME.
Where’s the form for selling my family for this, anyway? Sign me up!
Sobe Essential Energy
•March 2, 2007 • 14 Comments
I remember the days of SoBe Essentials. These small green glass bottles were the bee’s knees, back in the day, and there were discontinued long ago. However, they started a huge energy drink wave. Combined with Snapple’s earth/rain/fire series, the energy drink and exotic fruit craze began in earnest.
So when I discovered this morning that SoBe has a new Essential Energy line, I was a bit excited. See, on my desk I’ve got a can or bottole of nearly every flavor of energy drink. I drink much less of the stuff these days, but I consider it a fairly cool and diverse line.
Despite having tried just about everything, nothing has really captured the great taste of those original essentials.
This is Berry Pomegranate, with the usual Guarana and Ginseng, as well as Yerba Mate, Vitamin C, B6 and B12 (100% daily value each) and Zinc (10%).
What’s the sweetener? Crystalline Fructose, which is considered a slow metabolizing sweetener. While I’m not at all prone to any form of glycemic sensitivity, I’m also not interested in crashing after an energy drink, so I’m a fan of this.
It’s very lightly carbonated, and IMO tastes great cold … but I can tell that (like most exotic fruit drinks) it would rapidly become less appetizing as it warms.
•March 2, 2007 • 8 Comments
Probably going to L.A. for work May 30th and 31st.
So, been to Vegas and Chicago, going to New York in a month, and L.A. two months after that.
Pretty cool.
Other trips are still up in the air (Frankfurt, Tokyo).
This is the weirdest weather I’ve seen in a long time.
•March 2, 2007 • 2 CommentsFirst of all, last night there was some thunder that rolled, like a sine wave, and lasted at least three seconds. Now I’m in a whiteout in downtown detroit, and the snow is clumping on the window. Dan, our mighty admin, says he’s never seen that before, ever. It’s just so weird.
I think it’s a mixture of rain and snow. Not ice, mind you – it seems too warm for ice.
also:
The moon will turn a shade of copper red this Saturday when it will be fully eclipsed by the earth, whose shadow will blot out all but a tiny bit of refracted solar light.
Star gazers in Europe, the West Asia and Africa will have a front-and-center view of the eclipse in a late-night sky, with the zenith occurring at 23:21 GMT.
On the east coast of North America, the Moon will already be eclipsed when it rises at around sunset, while in Asia early risers will get a glimpse of the lunar blackout as the moon sets.
EDIT: And it’s gone in an instant. Now it’s just a bright day, with lavender puffs gently floating by in the distance.