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A fortnight after double hernia surgery
The worst part about having double hernia surgery wasn't the surgery itself. Nor was it the time leading up to the surgery where I'm literally pushing my guts back in and being very careful to not make it worse so I don't have to go to the ER. Nor was it the pain after the surgery where movement of anything other than my head or arms caused sharp ( Read more... ) -
Brigadoon Day 26
It's that time of year again-- point your mud client at muds.toccobrator.com 4201 to connect to TinyMUD Classic.
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100 years ago today: the Christmas truce of World War I
One hundred years ago, World War I was devastating Europe, and the battle lines had already stalemated and turned very bloody. But something happened the night of the 24th of December that year, that became known as the Christmas truce:
The Christmas truce was a series of widespread but unofficial ceasefires along the Western Front around ( Read more... ) -
Toy Story and the fourth movie curse
So it's been announced that Toy Story 4 will be released in 2017.
Here's hoping Pixar can break what I've come to call the Fourth Movie Curse: in short, fourth movies of a connected series always suck.
Some examples:
Die Hard, Die Hard 2 (Die Harder), Die Hard 3 (Die Hard With A Vengeance), Die Hard 4 (Live Free Or Die Hard) <-- sucks ( Read more... ) -
Election time, aka end of the silly season
Hat tip to Moe Lane for this one. Cracked.com has an article up titled Five Things You Won't Believe Can Brainwash You on Election Day, though I agree with Moe that the effects are likely overrated.
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Death Valley's moving rocks
The mystery of the 'slithering stones' of Death Valley appears to have been solved-- they got it on video, even:
According to [Richard] Norris, a geological oceanographer and paleontologist, Death Valley’s rocks move under a delicate mix of water, ice, sun, and wind. Norris and his cousin were able to document the rock movements by inserting GPS ( Read more... ) -
Brigadoon Day 25: now with ssh access
Twenty-five years ago, a "weekend hack that got out of hand" called TinyMUD opened to the world, and here we are 25 years later. Point your mud clients at muds.toccobrator.com 4201 if you have a client; if you don't, then there is now ssh access available-- get the login and password at TinyMUD Classic's homepage: Read more... ) -
New Pink Floyd album.
Four words none of us ever expected to hear put together again without a negation (such as "there will never be another"):
It’s been 20 years since the last Pink Floyd album came out, and now frontman Dave Gilmour is ready to knock the dust off and get the band rolling again. Gilmour’s wife, Polly Samson, announced via Twitter that Pink Floyd would ( Read more... )