[Listening to: Magoo by Drums and Tuba from the album Mostly Ape] I don’t think I’ve posted recently about how much I like the band Drums and Tuba. I’m reminded of it since the track Magoo from the album Mostly Ape came up in my usual shuffle mode listening. Finding myself typing in time to [...]

Weird Al gets political. Tags: song

From Thinking Too Much and Angry Starfish Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 123. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions. Don’t you dare dig for that cool or intellectual book in your closet! I know you were thinking about [...]

I just got a spam message with the following subject line: This Watch is fictitious Ladies and gentlemen, truth in advertising has finally arrived. No tag for this post.

Just saw that Microsoft has announced that several great board games will be showing up on Xbox Live Arcade someday: Carcassone, Alhambra, and Settlers of Catan! I imagine the Catan game will just be a port of the excellent PC version, or at least I hope it will be that that good. Tags: game

Google has decided to do a party at Worldcon too. No tag for this post.

It seems our new SAN devices are too heavy for the current tiles in the data center.  Today the environment will be unavailable to move the devices and replace the tiles with heavy duty tiles.  The environment will be available tomorrow morning. I thought it was funny. Or maybe it’s the allergies and decongestant doing [...]

Google has a booth at the big Star Trek convention in Las Vegas this weekend. I found out from this somewhat entertaining post on the official Google blog. It’s just sort of funny to think of a corporation the size of Google going out of their way to point out how high their geek quotient [...]

Google released a new version of their Google Talk client today, and it’s got some fun new stuff in it. Honestly I have actually been preferring gTalk to the other networks for awhile, which is apparently somewhat unusual. Primarily this is for two reasons: Small, compact, clean looking client. Centralized chat history. The big one [...]

Something else that I haven’t used much lately that is being cut from the budget: World Of Warcraft. Given that I haven’t logged in this month yet, I’m not particularly surprised. The last time my 6 month subscription came up this last spring I was sort of getting back into the swing of things. That [...]