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pictures from Cali and Nevada
http://www.flickr.com/photos/56755766@N00/tags/march09/
Included are pics from:- My sister's wedding at Mammoth Mountain in California
- Death Valley
- Las Vegas
- Joshua Tree
Almost two hundred pictures in one week...I may have temporarily out-sararahed sararah. The operative word being "temporarily," of course... - My sister's wedding at Mammoth Mountain in California
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can we ever really be sure?
One of my friends tipped me off to an interesting site related to the Large Hadron Collider project at CERN, based on some safety concerns about the experiments being conducted with it:
http://www.hasthelhcdestroyedtheearth.com/Thought for the day ( Read more... ) -
in which an excess intake of Dino Comics may have deleterious effects on the protagonist's sanity
Interesting series of comics on dinosaurcomics this week. T-Rex mentions Herostratus, the arsonist who burned down the Temple of Artemis (among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World). He was executed and the rest of the Greeks forbidden to say his name. T-Rex therefore infers that anyone who speaks of him is a "suck[y] Greek ( Read more... ) -
snarking here...
...because I'd probably be shouted down for it there:
"When words are few, each one carries a considerable weight." -Ted Slater
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April snow showers bring an extremely disgruntled BP79
Anyway. Tangentially related to this post from a while back:
Stuff Christians Like
I haven't read through it far enough to see if/where "mimicking/parodying trendy stuff from pop culture" is listed.
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not a lot to write about
...but here goes anyway.
Taxes are done. Not particularly happy about the results, but at least it's over with until next year.
I need to find someone besides chainsaw_gregg to play Puerto Rico with so I can get a better handle on the strategy required. Unfortunately, game geeks and others willing to put up with gaming are somewhat rarer here than in Ames ( Read more... ) -
funniest video I've seen in a while
I know next to nothing about the book this video advertises, but the video itself strikes me as pretty hilarious:
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this is how geeky I am
The latest XKCD had an interesting premise, but didn't the Matrix just pipe sensory signals (including visual) into the brain? How would broken pixels occur or manifest themselves in that setup? It really seems like more of a broken holodeck thing to me.