As it stands right now, Jakosta has 51 mounts. Cody and I are gunning for the Mountain o’ Mounts achievement, which itself rewards a mount for obtaining. The road from 51 to 100 is largely a matter of rep-grinding and spending “money” (be it gold, badges, honor points, or whatever else). Then there are the remaining few that have to be obtained ( Read more... )

I've embarked on the perilous adventure of exposing Cody to Star Trek. In all the course of my romantic history, I haven't actually done that, before. Firefly and FarScape are staples, as is Babylon 5. But Star Trek? Never happened before. So far, we've watched the six original series-era movies, and have worked our way through about half of ( Read more... )

Lately, I've been getting a distressingly large number of spam mails that are totally incomprehensible. I don't mean "the text is garbled to avoid spam filters." I mean totall incomprehensible. The original is under a cut. I reformatted it into something vaguely resembling English grammar here:

Resented. Hastily washed them to be ready for ( Read more... )

(Cross-posting from a forum reply)

This very topic has been weighing heavily on me with increasing pressure ever since 2001 (which is more or less when I started becoming 'aware' of politics). Everything [Darth] Wong and the others have said is essentially true ( Read more... )

From here

( Why debate things? )

When I came to Northeastern, there was something I regarded as "true." That something was that the requirements of school were incompatible with production deadlines; to whit, trying to do school and work in the industry were incompatible. As of September 6, I began living that life. And, unsurprisingly, it's pretty busy.

( Here's a look at my daily schedule )

Fighting Robots...for real!

Absolutely badass!

Because I'm a sucker for using a calculator, it struck me as an amusing curiosity to calculate the length LEGO models of Star Wars capital ships would need to be in order to be to scale with the legoman. The legoman is 40mm tall. Assuming a height of six feet for this value...

Corellian Corvette: 150m ∴ 3.28 m (10'9")
Imperial Star Destroyer: ( Read more... )

Apparently, my self-indulgent "World of Me" rant a few posts back was actually grounded in something that exists as an actual movement: Technocracy. The aim of technocracy is to dramatically increase the standard of living by allocating resources equally among all people, and more or less doing away with human labor, beyond that which humans wish ( Read more... )

Clickie

Whoa. o_O

Edit: Instead of posting a spam of entries as I go through my morning links routine, I'm just going to edit this one. This is hilarious. A father taught his 4-year old daughter to say "I pwned a n00b" when playing a prank on someone.

Oh Danae...

( *whistles innocently* )