Random Stuff

Sometimes I really forget we live in the world of tomorrow. I watched this video of the launch of Discovery, Mission STS-116 on YouTube and it hit me after the fact that I was watching an immense space vehicle blast into space. Sure, they’ve been doing this since I was in elementary school, and hell, […]

Somewhere in a conversation today at work about someone’s friend who had a sex change operation (female to male), when asking why you wouldn’t just use a strap on the following was said: If have a female end and you want a male end, you get a gender-bender, you don’t re-crimp the cable! Possibly the

So somehow the valley got transfered to India in the monsoon season. It’s been raining non-stop (again) for the last few days…. heck, forecastfox just shows a solid wave going across the 3 day extended forecast! Advantage of taking the train to work is no need to drive in this weather, disadvantage is having to

Happy Thanksgiving to my Canadian neighbors of the north. Spent last night over at my parents having some fantastic turkey (yay for leftovers) and am spending the day today doing my best to get into doing some work for both contract stuff and to catch up on some stuff for my real job that’s due

Way cool…. Darren threw me a link to a video of Dan Osman Remix Jumps. Basically a bunch of videos of Dan Osman, psycho climber extraordinaire doing free solo climbing and jumping off of cliffs with nothing but a rope on. Crazy stuff. Some stuff is on a video I have (or to be more

Some interesting office/toilet server room ideas over at Geek Flat. Speaking of offices, last sunday me, because it’s the wild and crazy life I lead, finally finished the wiring/organization/cleaning of the office. A few weeks ago Firefly and FireflyMom redid the layout, nixed some shelves that were ugly, did an Ikea run, etc. However, at

Links passed on by a cute animal loving friend of mine: LJ – Baby Animals LJ – KittyPix

Dear America, specifically the states immediately below BC; Thankyou for your gift of the heat wave, it’s a nice gift after the moderately blah weather. However, I don’t want to melt, so please take it back. If possible throw it somewhere that no one will notice 40C temperatures, such as Death Valley. Love, Melting (currently

Every once and a while I think that I should fulfill my mid-life crisis by doing something manly to prove myself, like skydiving. Then I see videos like this and remember why jumping out of a plane at 12,000 feet is a bad idea.

Read an actual spam messages today and realized even the stupid nigerian scammers/spammers don’t know if they are men or women. Observe. From: greg whalin <greg1_whalin@yahoo.com> Subject: please reply this information Dear Sir, I am mrs chikago marria from Liberia, my late husband mr Sani marria was killed during the on going war in Liberia.