"Will there be nothing left of him?" asked Kate ( Read more... )

I had heard, years ago, that the last act of Star Wars: A New Hope is heavily influenced by The Dam Busters", which re-enacts Operation Chastise with much lionization ( Read more... )

Several points:

• A central plot device in "Heavy Rain" is a torture-porn serial-killer motif, where our sad-sack divorcee suffers bad shit under command of the killer. I'm vastly annoyed that I can't immediately go to the police. Given the players are the one making poor Sad-Sack suffer at the whims of the game designer, who is the torturer and ( Read more... )

I'm pretty sure I know who the Origami Killer is in "Heavy Rain". It's the creepy dark-haired woman wearing a POLICE poncho who can shift through time and space ( Read more... )

1: "I finally figured out where all the hot women in Sacramento hang out!"
2: "The middle school?"

Today we made 40lbs of strawberries into acres of jam ( Read more... )

The soil in this part of the Peninsula is called "clay soil"; that actually means just "clay". It's hard as a rock by mid-summer, and even now with the spring rains just finished, it still takes a steel shovel and all my weight for every spadeful ( Read more... )

I spent many hours today beating the hell out of Japanese gangsters. Kate had a birthday party and then that morphed into a playdate, and Sara was at a concert, so it was just me and "Yakuza 3".


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This is the response (as of 2005) of the C&H sugar company to the question of whether they used bone ash to whiten their sugar ( Read more... )

http://lggwg.com/wolff/art/fractalCrowd/FractalCrowd.html

Thanks!

Edit: I had some cross-browser wackiness with the slider, among other things, and also full-screen, so I'm curious if anyone sees any odd artifacts. Looks like no.