I figured out why we never seen Applejack's parents in the show.  They've actually been there the whole time ( Read more... )

Good King Wenceslas looked out, on the Feast of Stephen ( Read more... )

While helping my roommate clean up the basement, I came across several really old hard drives.  I tried using my primative data recovery equipment, but I couldn't even initialize the drives.  They were dead dead dead.  But they still could contain data accessable through more exhaustive means, so I decided to render them permenantly unreadable.  ( Read more... )

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LiveJournal really messed up the gallery.  It's a royal pain in the ass to upload and post images now.  Clicky on any of these to see the full image.


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I took this photo while crossing the NE-50 bridge over the Platte River near Louisville, NE.  Usually the water fills at least half the channel, but now it's barely more than a creek.  The Platte is not a very deep river, flood stage is only 9 feet, but it's currently at less than 15 inches.  There is actually grass growing out where the river ( Read more... )

At Omaha Eppley Field in the month of July ( Read more... )

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A recent Wii Everybody Votes Channel poll asked whether people eat bananas by peeling them a little at a time, or all at once.

Me:  Who peels a banana all at once?  If you do that, it loses its structural integrity!
My SO:  That was the geekiest thing I've ever heard.

Little Ruthven passed away today in his surrogate mama's arms.  He was just a few days short of nine months old.  His mother died shortly after giving birth to him, so my SO and I raised him.  He was very affectionate and curious about everything.  He was absolutely fearless, and would just walk into the house like he owned the place if given half ( Read more... )