Last week we got 4-5 inches of snow and ice from Tuesday through Wednesday.  By Thursday morning it had basically turned into one solid 4 inch block of white-tinted ice.  Thanks to carpooling to work now, which saves me 300 miles of driving/gas a week = one tank of gas a week = $100 a month, I hadn't moved my car until today.  Some ingenuity with a ( Read more... )

It's rather annoying that, in most fonts, a capital 'i' and a lowercase 'L' look identical.  It makes capitalizing words like illusion, illness, illustration, and illustrious.  When you get to a word like illinois, which DEMANDS to be capitalized by the english language, you're simply asking for trouble...

AND TROUBLE YOU SHALL HAVE!  Illinois, it ( Read more... )

Well our move is finally and completely done!  Friday afternoon I did our close-out inspection of the wonderful townhouse down in Greenbelt, and this weekend Becky and I got a ton more unpacking and cleaning finished in the new apartment!  It's definitely a great feeling to be hanging out with family or friends and not have to worry about an hour ( Read more... )

Mend this careless thread
It's gone askew
Pull and see how much we can undo

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Great news!

The gist of it is that Disney is working on returning (at least) one of their studios to all tradition, hand-drawn animation!  Disney has put out by far some of the most beautiful hand-drawn animation ever to exist, and so to me this is some of the best news of the year!  Woo!

Almost pointless to say is that the holiday season makes all things more difficult to do, as there are more distractions and more things to take up time.

I just want to know if anyone has actually gone to see Eragon?  Denise recently wrote a good (not positive, but well done) review of the book, which thankfully backed up Becky's initial reaction to ( Read more... )

Not sure how many of you read or know what Penny Arcade is, but I really love the site.  Well yesterday Gabe on there posted a contest to win tickets to their awesome Charity Dinner for Child's Play.  It's a charity they started a few years back to supply children in hospitals around the world with games, toys, entertainment, basically anything ( Read more... )

December 5th, 1901 was Walt Disney's birthday.  He died in 1966, but in those 65 years he definitely left one of the largest human impacts ever to occur.  I know many people, for various random reasons, have a strong dislike for either the Disney corporation or for the man himself, but I know one thing for sure:  Walt Disney was a brilliant man who ( Read more... )

What?  No!  We can't stop here!  This is Bat Country!!!

This is the last thing I've written for this post, and the first you're reading.  We've just time-traveled.  Please join me again soon for more amazing adventures...IN TIME!

I've written this post backwards, in reverse paragraph-order, for what reason I'm not entirely certain.  There is ( Read more... )

I'll begin with a short and simple apology for it being more then a month since I've posted. Life has been understandably busy and fun all at the same time. After a several month break from reading I'm attempting to get back into the (semi-)daily habit, starting with one of my birthday presents from Becky: The Art of War by Sun Tzu     It is really ( Read more... )