Today, I fired up a portable gas grill on a picnic table outside our building in the office park. Me and a couple of the other guys from IT cooked up some hot dogs for lunch. Reactions to this seem to mostly fall into either the "That's awesome!" or the "You're crazy!" category. I've been thinking about doing this for years, between the picnic ( Read more... )

...I was nonetheless shocked when I saw a visually recognizable replica of Columbia! They've made a surprisingly accurate (considering it's scaled down somewhat) rendering of South Lawn, College Walk, Low Steps, and the surrounding buildings. Though they thankfully omitted Lerner Hall ( Read more... )

Well, I really enjoyed trinityvixen's b-day party, but I definitely could've done without returning to my car to find one of the windows smashed. I don't know if it was random vandalism or part of the trend I've read about of people stealing GPS units from cars when they see the GPS mount installed. Either way, it's one more thing to deal with ( Read more... )

Yesterday I bought some Girl Scout cookies from a coworker's niece. Do you know how much they cost? That's right...

Tree fitty.

No lie.

I've been using pfSense, an open-source, FreeBSD-based router/firewall for about two weeks now, on some old PC hardware I had lying around. The motivation was upgrading to multiple public IP addresses, which necessitated using multiple routers, since the little SOHO routers only support one WAN IP address. That would quickly get out of control. ( Read more... )

Ok, thepolkapunk just mentioned mishearing ads for the E! reality show "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" as "Keeping Up With the Cardassians", which I had done myself when season one began airing. So the question is, can we make or buy good enough Bajoran and Cardassian makeup or masks to make the latter as a series of YouTube videos? I'm thinking a sitcom ( Read more... )

( For the morbidly curious, cracked car photos behind the cut. )

On the way to work this morning, my car got smashed from behind while I was stopped for a school bus. @_o I'm not hurt. And although the damage looks really bad, it appears to all be superficial, not structural. I was able to drive away, but the Ford E350 SuperDuty XL that hit me had to be towed. He swerved to try to avoid me, so his left ( Read more... )

Well, looks like Ralph "Jesus Christ" Nader is back to save us from the other candidates. The last time I saw an ego like that, Chris Jericho was returning to the WWE to "save us" from Randy Orton (and calling it his "2nd Coming"). He's actually claiming that voters are dissatisfied with the candidates, which can only mean he's either completely ( Read more... )

No, no, no, not that "Eye-Rack" war (though you'd think it is, since it's not in the news any more). I'm talking about the high-definition disc format war!Tokyo (Japan) - The HD format war is officially over, as Toshiba today announced that it has stopped developing, manufacturing or marketing of HD DVD players. (link)
Though somehow I doubt the ( Read more... )