These are some links from a while back that I've wanted to share but had misplaced on ye olde junk drive.

Grenade Mouse. Very very cool. The pic alone is worth a look. Awesome mod.

March 17th (1948) happy (now belated) birthday to William Gibson, father of cyberpunk, and the coiner of the term "cyberspace".

Syence Fyction? The scifi channel now "syfy ( Read more... )

Those of you that didn't know, a little background: tonic water contains quinine which is florescent. Thus, tonic water is blacklight reactive. Simple scientific explanation aside, isn't that really cool?!


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Got a phone call from Bill today asking me to come in and work in Eddie's place since he was sick. I reluctantly agreed, after he agreed that I could come in after five. That gave me time to finish some of the things I had to do around the house. Did some dishes, found some clean clothes, found a place to board Ford while I'm going to be away ( Read more... )

On my way to work, I ended up following Nate's (my former boss at Target, the one I liked) truck from the Target parking lot outlet onto Fletcher all the way onto I275. It's kind of hard to miss a vehicle that has a two foot Transformers decal on the rear window.

I passed him on I275, waved and gave two quick beeps of the horn, but I don't think he ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I like my job. It's rarely a feeling that lasts this long. But sometimes a customer says something nice, or you have a pleasant conversation with them, and you both go away happy.

I like (most) older folks, since they usually are nice like that. One reason I like working earlier in the day here is that old folks tend to be a higher ( Read more... )

A large group of Spanish-speaking people came in. Nothing unusual about that (except the size.... 7+ is a bit uncommonly large) but they had a couple of English-speakers in the group as well, including the interpreter, who told me that the group was actually the entire Costa Rican chamber of commerce, visiting an economic conference with other ( Read more... )