I'm not happy about shoveling, but I am happy that I am ABLE to shovel.

I have a couple neighbors that either can't or shouldn't do their own shoveling.  I shovel for at least one of them.  I expect nothing in return (but I do hope for a plate of cookies!).

After playing some D&D miniatures at GenCon, one of my buddies and I bought a couple packs of minis and gave it another try. We enjoyed it and picked up a few more minis to play with. My son (almost 6 yrs old) expressed interest in my minis when he saw me pack up my bit of stuff one time as I headed over to my friend's place to play a round or two ( Read more... )

 Apparently the reading incentives we (mostly my wife) have implemented are really paying off.  Today my son, who's in kindergarten, started going to the 1st grade class for reading.  Only 2 other kids went up to the first grade level with him ( Read more... )

This weekend my brother took me out to the farm where he frequently hunts.  The family of a friend of his has a bunch of land a couple hours from here and they hunt it regularly.  My brother's benefited from that and I finally went out there with him (and his dog).

Thanksgiving weekend is apparently the weekend BETWEEN the two (shotgun) deer hunting ( Read more... )

I wonder why I find the technology related to trash so fascinating. Here's another awesome technology that deals with trash:

Awesome Trash Tech

Part of the article states this:

The machine is a microwave emitter that extracts the petroleum and gas hidden inside everyday objects-or at least anything made with hydrocarbons, which, it turns out, is ( Read more... )

When I was a kid, I remember that the Christmas season started a day or so AFTER Thanksgiving. It seems that it has creeped it's way past Thanksgiving, past the week of Thanksgiving and has settled, for the moment, on November 1st ( Read more... )

I just read a news article titled "Thieving monkeys 'out of control' in northeast India". Apparently, the monkeys are stealing people's cell phones and breaking into their houses to dig in their refrigerators and steal cokes. I don't think I could write anything better than this, so I stole it from the Y! news article I read:

Last month, the ( Read more... )

I've read a few articles about the $100 laptop aka "One Laptop Per Child" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OLPC) and am interested in it. It is basically a laptop specifically engineered to be used in 3rd world countries by underprivileged kids.

I can't find anything right now that summarizes the aspects of what will make it work.  For instance it's ( Read more... )

There's a couple cool applications that take photos of people and show what they might/would look like several years down the line.  They're mainly used to show what missing persons might look like when people are still looking for the missing person years later ( Read more... )

I've developed another annoying typing problem.  I'm not sure if it's that my hands can't keep up with my thoughts or what, but I've started not finishing words and started skipping forward a couple words and just restarting there.  It's wierd.  Here's an example:

Here's what I was trying to type:
"All of the content for the site is still outstanding ( Read more... )