Monthly Archives: January 2007

Resistence is not always futile

Some days at work it takes the absolute maximum effort not to walk up to people and say, “I told you so.” No tag for this post.

Left Behind

So in a pretty quick turn of events, my main character in World of Warcraft has been stranded on one server while my guild left for another one. Somewhat surprisingly, I’m only a little irritated with the guild. I had only recently come back after a very long hiatus and most of the current members [...]

Hidden Gem

Amblypygid and I just got back from taking the kids to see the Firefighters Hall and Museum (IE Only) in NE Mpls. One of the volunteers gave us an excellent guided tour showing off all of their ten antique and otherwise old fire trucks, spanning everything from hand carried and pumped to semi-modern diesel engines [...]

Flash Game: Tumbler

Great fun, but not for people who get motion sick. http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/tumbler Tags: game

Scribble 2

Found a fun game (via Game|Life) called Scribble 2: Tags: game, pop

Can’t keep it down

Then employees began seeing Flubber rising like the undead through cracks in the pavement. from The Engines of Our Ingenuity episode 1903 No tag for this post.

Intermitent immediate gratification

For those who have not been keeping up with the news, Netflix has recently started the rollout of their long anticipated electronic service, called “Watch Now” to complement their existing DVD-by-Mail service. The rollout is being staged to their various million subscribers and I am lucky enough to be one of the relatively early accounts [...]

Translation?

The first in likely plenty of vanity license plates that I don’t understand. Seen on 35W S between 62 and 494: [Wisconsin] YIA SEE Any guesses? No tag for this post.

Odd coincidence

About the same time that I implement OpenID on my personal blog for authentication and finally get a personal OpenID running so I can use it elsewhere, I start hearing it talked about all over the place. Nice to see that it might be a technology that gets adopted broadly. The OpenID I plan on [...]

Playing with authentication systems…

I’ve added an OpenID authentication system to my blog. Mostly this is so that hopefully friends of mine who read the blog that are on LJ will have an easier time being able to post comments since they should just be able to use their LJ ID to authenticate to do the comments. Please let [...]