I have become aware of a conflicting theory which might call into question the success of my Faster Than Light travels yesterday. A distinguished colleague of mine pointed out that all things move more slowly in government buildings, and therefore even photons will slow down (probably due to needing to get their paperwork stamped by quantum ( Read more... )

I have just achieved speeds in excess of 186,000 miles per second! It's true! Electrical impulses travel through our fancy fiber optic cables at the speed of light, and yet I was able to click the "print" button on my computer and then run clear into the other room before the printer responded.

Scientists will be studying me for years to come.

I think this is as much awesomeness as can be packed into an English sentence:

"The robot transformed into a pirate ship where ninjas crammed Nazis into cannons and fired them at the stampeding zombie tyrannosaurs."

For Christmas, a friend who owns a comic store sent me a fat stack of comics he thought I would like. I'm less than half way through the stack, but I've already fallen in love with the miniseries of Shanna the She Devil. It's about a super-buff jungle warrior who protects a bunch of lost soldiers on a mysterious island. For fun, she punches out ( Read more... )

The scores were released this morning for the "National Boards for Professional Teaching Standards." I passed!
I am now officially recognized as having a black belt in teaching.
The best part is how much work I DON'T have to do this year. In fact, this gets me out of some other work until I need to renew the cert in 10 years.

The police recovered my pimp mobile from the North Seattle Community College parking lot last night. It only cost me $100 bucks to get it out of the tow lot ( Read more... )

I have played enough video games to know that a theif should consider three important categories when selecting perspective automobiles: armor, speed, and sexiness. Why, then, would anyone want to take my car? You have to turn off the AC to reach freeway speeds, the worn red paint doesn't exactly say "come hither," and I'm pretty sure it wouldn't ( Read more... )

We watched the first 8 of 10 episodes of Band of Brothers yesterday. If you haven't seen them, they are truly excellent and definitely worthy of watching. They also reminded me of what a rotten deal war really is, so I have created a plan that will end all war on earth within my lifetime ( Read more... )

Debuting today: Danger Magnet!
This is a FREE fanzine dedicated to pulp adventure gaming and the ubiquity system. I'm delighted with how well it turned out! Lots of cool stuff for HEX and a little for Desolation, including settings, creatures, artifacts, an adventure, and even a historical piece on Howard Carter and Egyptology in the early twentieth ( Read more... )

I have experienced more awesomeness today by 7:30 am than I do all day on most days. First, on the way to the bus stop a cyclist stopped and said "Do you like science? Look over there above that tree-- it's the space station!" Sure enough, there was a little pink light sliding through the sky ( Read more... )