I haven't wanted to deal with LJ for a while. There are reasons. I just had to share this, however. Andrabbi was dying laughing while listening to it!

http://popwatch.ew.com/popwatch/2009/02/bale-rant-remix.html

There's a link to download it on the Youtube page.

Congratulations to Michael Phelps on an unfathomable feat! Eight gold medals in eight races with seven world records and one Olympic record.

(Heh, unfathomable, get it? Fathom? Also, I joked with laechim and millenia the other day that Phelps was an American gold farmer in China this year ( Read more... )

I got my car back this week, on Tuesday. Finally. They cleaned it up and everything. It was the shiniest I'd seen it since probably around the time I bought it. So, it was sixteen days of rental. The damage waiver was $15 a day (and isn't covered by insurance, for future reference). The glass ended up being only $182 after tax, so that was a nice ( Read more... )

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I love sim games,
I love cool gadgets.
I love rock and roll,
I love the internets.
I love the whole world,
and all the geeky folks.

BOOM DE YADA, BOOM DE YADA, BOOM DE YADA, BOOM DE YADA

For reference

So, on my birthday, Mother Nature decided to give me an exciting storm. This storm came with large hail in the package. This hail gave my car dents, and lots of them. Wonderful. So, I decided to go ahead and have somebody take a look at it. I have insurance for a reason, after all. I went with the closest place the insurance company listed off, ( Read more... )

Andrabbi found the National Weather Service report about the tornado that went through this past weekend. It has another map and more pictures of damage.

As Andrabbi has posted (locked), we had a close call last night for a tornado. I checked our house, trees, and immediate neighborhood this morning, and everything seems normal. We're lucky that it blew just north of us, but it was still too close for comfort.

This article from KETV describes the incident, and I've made a map of the locations because it's ( Read more... )

My computer has successfully made it through some major surgery tonight. The diagnosis was a faulty DVD drive and lack of hard drive space. It was about an hour and a half long procedure, but the DVD replacement and drive expansion went well. There was also a CD-RWectomy in preparation for a transplant. I figured Andrabbi's computer would be able to use it ( Read more... )

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