I still need to post about my Bender's and Cervantes experiences from Halloween weekend, but for now, here are some links to pictures from the Halloween event:

Adele's pics from Bender's
Official Bender's Bar pics

(you can probably guess which one is me)

Starbucks will give you a free cup of coffee tomorrow, if you vote tomorrow (or, in theory, if you early voted / mail voted ( Read more... )

This is just too cool for words, so I felt I would share it with y'all. I wanna get a hexapod robot kit for next year's Halloween, if they're not stupid expensive. ;)

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(coming soon -- a recap of a fun Halloween weekend)

Hunting today for a site that would spew a range of IPs when given a CIDR number, and decided IP Address Guide was pretty close to what I needed, and it had several other useful tools, particularly for those of us having to debug firewall and proxy problems without access to said firewalls or proxies. It even had a little embedded script, like ( Read more... )

Pennsylvania voters are "split" between the two main presidential candidates (for values of "split" equal to 'overwhelmingly for Obama')

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And in the spirit of Talk Like a Pirate Day:

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If you don't really watch John Stewart, or if you do but you missed last week's funny stuff, you should watch this episode. Most of it is tongue-in-cheek and pretty funny (I particularly liked the balloon thing, and the interview with the Texan), but the side-by-side comparison of Bush's convention speech in 2000 and McCain's convention speech in ( Read more... )

Minneapolis is going crazy. I'll be tracking links to articles describing details and stories of what the heck is going on out there, 'cause I can't quite keep track of it myself. It's a lot to read, but if it doesn't make you go "OMGWTF?" then ... you .. probably are one of those people that don't like to use the F word. ;)

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Dr. James Dobson crony Stuart Shepard wanted near-biblical rain on Thursday, August 28th, over Invesco Field, and he wanted thousands (millions?) of followers to pray for such:

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But it didn't happen. According a caveat in his call for prayer, he is "okay with that." He's just content in knowing that lots of people prayed for it, even if God ( Read more... )

"throbber" sounds so wrong, but that's what it is.


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