This morning I did something I had never done before. I locked my keys in the car, hanging from the ignition ( Read more... )

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Yes, today is Flag Day, the one day a year when we all reverently gather round Old Glory to admire her crisp white stars on a luxurious field of blue, her alternating stripes of crimson and white, each in stark contrast to the other, and yet incomplete without its counterpart. She waves high and proud above car dealerships by the side of the ( Read more... )

So, remember that "secret" project I was helping with? It's finally OK to talk about it. Honestly, I'm not sure it wouldn't have been OK before, but I decided to go ahead and be quiet until publication, just in case ( Read more... )

Holy cow! Apparently the next Tim Burton film is going to be Sweeney Todd. This may not be a big deal to most of you, but I hold a special place in my heart for Sweeney Todd, as it is a show I associate fondly with my lovely wife. She first introduced me to the show when I met her, and we have long insisted that some day we would perform A ( Read more... )

So, recently I found a Flash video record of the guy who did a 1-day ascension in Kingdom of Loathing. I haven't watched it all yet, because it is very long and very slow. But holy crap. The amount of time and meat invested in this feat was unbelievable. His starting weapons are two Ice Sickles. He buys 3 Mr. Accessories so that he can convert ( Read more... )

So, the issue with the accessory to the thing that was broken is now fixed. In as much as it works now. Mostly because when I went to try to fix it yesterday I discovered that I had not, technically, plugged it in. Well, it was plugged in to the wall, so I had power and everything, but it wasn't plugged in to the instrument, so I couldn't get any ( Read more... )

Yesterday I did something very stupid at work. I was taking something apart to clean it, and I disconnected a water line incorrectly, which led to water pouring out all over the place. Including into a turbo pump. Luckily the pump was not running, but it pretty much filled all the way up with water. This happened near the end of the day, so ( Read more... )

So, Lager Rhythms (or Lager Rythms, if you can't spell well) had a full gig this past Saturday afternoon. It went pretty well, although we did have a few hiccups ( Read more... )

So, for those of you who somehow haven't already heard about it, us Lager Rhythms will be singing this Saturday at Mojo Risin', a coffeehouse on Shepherd, just south of I-10, in the same center as Spaghetti Western. It's a nice place, with good coffee and desserts, and the sound is good so we don't need microphones ( Read more... )