i was in fourth grade when i played dungeons and dragons for the first time in enrichment class, part of the elementary school’s gifted program. so i suppose i can blame my teacher, mrs. sykes, for starting me on the path to sci-fi-fantasy geekdom. that being said, the most interesting part of playing dungeons and …
it’s like a bizarro-world version of deja vu. where does a boxer turn when all other states have given him the finger? why he comes here, of course, to the one state that will give you a license to fight for just 10 dollars cash and almost no questions asked. so they’re coming to the …
today is:a. mardi grasb. shrove tuesdayc. chinese new yeard. lorne greene’s birthdayoh! and i almost forgot…e. oscar nominations day decisions, decisions, decisions…. which one are you celebrating?
it would appear that lucas has realized that his target audience for the next star wars entry is not the gaggle of pre-schoolers that sympathised with little pod-racing anakin or chuckled at the antics of jar-jar binks, but instead the swarm of mostly male fan boys that worship the likes of lara croft and trinity …
there are a lot of sites that i visit through the day to inform me or entertain me or even enlighten me, but rare is the one that educates me as much as the one i found this evening. think you know your mp3s? think you know your bitrates from your compression? well, i thought …
no highway photos of wayside roadsigns and weathered gravestones. not this time. the only two pictures taken during the weekend drive were within the county-limits, albeit in its upper reaches. late on saturday morning i drove north, taking highway 19 with a plan to take 120 west to I-75 after i crossed the chattahoochee river. …
the weather is lovely and home is, well, home. good. that is the simplest way to describe being here, being in
isn’t she lovely? from the site: “Using a collection of satellite-based observations, scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless, true-color mosaic of every square kilometer (.386 square mile) of our planet.” [via MetaFilter]
it is always educational to look back in wonder at the things and days gone by. occasionally, you look back in horror or disbelief, but it is educational just the same…
because with so many corporate logos and so much adbusting*, somebody is going to get very ticked off, very soon. * – i am neither anti-capitalist, nor am i pro-corporate, but i know and you know that each one of us is a demographic statistic, someone’s target market, and we all deserve better.
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