If you are a gamer who even slightly enjoys first person shooters and you don't own Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, you are totally missing out ( Read more... )

I just got an e-mail from me. Well not *me* exactly, UK-me. Apparently UK-me applied for a marathon and put in my e-mail address instead of his (unsurprisingly very similar), then sent me a message apologizing for the confusion and asking me to forward the registration confirmation if I got it ( Read more... )

I'm not sure why, but I found this video to be rather moving ( Read more... )

For you DC natives (or potential visitors ( Read more... )

zombie_hime recently posted about a lecture by a CMU professor dying of pancreatic cancer. The whole thing is worth watching, of course, but she pulled out a few salient tidbits that I don't want people to miss.

A couple of good reminders from the list:
1) When you're screwing up and nobody's saying anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on ( Read more... )

No, I didn't run off and join the circus or become a Luddite... I was in the Pacific Northwest for a bit and in the process forgot my LJ password like a chump.

Now that I'm back and my brain started working again, I've even posted a few pictures*. Seattle is definitely an interesting place. I hadn't been there in almost ten years. I'm looking ( Read more... )

Exercise is hard to appreciate as a 20-something when not only is physical activity relatively effortless, but you have your whole life ahead of you "to get into shape" if you're slacking now ( Read more... )

As a great example of the dangers of teh Intraweb, I traveled from LJ to "Only in Kenya" to "Badger Badger" to this: Big Ass Badgers

jameel, this one's got your name on it.

There's more than meets the... um... badger.

In related news, I recently discovered the recuts on Youtube. I'm not sure if I'm 10 years late on this one, but the Office Space ( Read more... )

Nature really provides the coolest drama.

"This video was taken while on safari and shows a battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and two crocodiles at a watering hole in South Africa's Kruger National Park. Throw in Voltron and you've got yourselves a war."

And while I'm on the topic of really wacky stuff on Geekologie, I want this ( Read more... )

"For millenia mankind has believed that nothing can come out of nothing. Today we can argue that everything has come out of nothing. Nobody has to pay for the universe. It is the ultimate free lunch."

- Paul Davies