So you think you know everything? – DailyGammon Discussion
A silly but fun post over at the site where I’ve been playing Backgammon.
Apparently the QE II can move 6″ on a gallon of diesel fuel. 🙂
Category: Pointless Ramblings
Walkie Talkie Man
Carmina (who is a bona fide fiber nut) sent me this link. She thought the animation was interesting but didn’t listen to the sound. I thought the whole package was pretty whacky and cool:
Steriogram | Walkie Talkie Man
Private craft flies into space
How to Keep Your Brain Young
How to Keep Your Brain Young is an encouraging read for an old dog like me, even if it *does* come from Better Homes & Gardens so is scientifically suspect. 🙂
Giving blood
I donated blood today, for the first time in my life. It was such a non-event that I feel guilty for all the blood drives I’ve skipped. I’d heard all the tales of feeling faint and weak after and all that, but I didn’t feel a thing, except a little bored while the bag filled up.
From now on I’ll be doing it every time they have a blood drive at work. You get free juice and cookies, and a nice half-hour break out of your work day. What’s not to like about that!!? 🙂
Seriously, somewhere, sometime, some stranger will be helped out by this donation.
So what the hell? I guess I did a good thing. Go figure.
Scallops
When I was a boy in the fall I got to watch a process that never failed to fascinate me.
There was an old building in the back of my grandparents lot. The boards were grey with age, twisted and warped so you could see ribbons of daylight from inside.
There was a huge flat table in there, anachronistic in that it was made of steel or something. And rows of shelving for storage.
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Will Wright Wisdom
When asked in an interview in OPM, “Do you have any advice for aspiring game designers?” Wright answered:
Expose yourself to ideas, subjects, and design approaches from outside the games industry. There’s a world of useful stuff out there for you to discover, and by pulling from outside sources, you’ll contribute to broadening games rather than inbreeding them.
Substitute just about anything for ‘gaming’ in this and it still sounds like good advice to me.
Today
Today’s Strolling Music: The Worst of Jefferson Airplane
Today
Today
I feel like pleasing you
More than before.
Today
I know what I want to do
But I don’t know what for.
To be living for you
Is all I want to do.
To be loving you
It’ll all be there when my dreams come true.
Today
You’ll make me say that I
Somehow have changed.
Today
You look in my eyes
I’m just not the same.
To be any more than all I am
Would be a lie.
I’m so full of love
I could burst apart
And start to cry.
Today
Everything you want I swear
It all will come true.
Today
I realize how much
I’m in love with you.
With you standing here
I could tell the world
What it means to love.
To go on from here
I can’t use words
They don’t say enough.
Please, please
Listen to me
Its taking so long to come true.
Its all for you.
All for you.
Cyber church reacts to ‘Satan’ visit
Cyber church�reacts to ‘Satan’ visit
I mean, what did they expect? You build a ‘virtual church’ that looks like nothing so much as a MMRPG…of *course* you’re going to get griefers coming in to disrupt things.
I mean, how naive can you be?
Jadeds Pub Down
In case any friends from the Pub come here to try and find out whats going on…there was a problem with the billing for jadedspub.com. The expiration date on the credit card that it was being billed to never got updated (my bad) and they were sending reminder notices to an old mediaone.net account so…
Anyway, the billing is now straightened out and the Pub should be back (and hopefully intact!) soon.
[UPDATE: Well, its still down. At this point I don’t expect it to be back before tomorrow. I have a meeting first thing in the am but after that I’ll get them on the phone and rant and rave. Thank you for your patience!]
[NEW UPDATE: We’re back online!!]