101 Cookbooks – Triple Chocolate Espresso Bean Cookies I think I have a project. (tags: Recipes chocolate) YouTube – Amazing R/C airplane demo Worth the two minutes. (tags: video plane YouTube) YouTube – lotr spoof-jack black and sarah michelle gellar Most of you have probably seen this before, but it is new to me. (tags: [...]
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It has been awhile, but back in October I received an encouraging email from Dark Wisdom Magazine about a story submission. Today, the final word came back. Todd, Thank you for submitting “Allgemeine Kosten” to Dark Wisdom. Your submission has been in the final reading pool, which is an accomplishment – given the hundreds of [...]
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I don’t travel much anymore. Occasionally, we drive home to Toledo to see our families. We might go 50-70 miles in any particular direction on the weekend. I’ve been fortunate in not having to fly for nearly three years now. So why do I need a GPS unit? If you have to answer that question, [...]
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This will be the last entry in the Sink Saga, provided something horrible doesn’t go wrong in the near future. When we last left our intrepid amateur plumber, he was kneeling under the counter, scratching his head over a steady leak coming from somewhere in the dark recesses. Just when I thought I had things [...]
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This is the third Neal Asher book I’ve read in the past couple of months. My last review for The Line of Polity was mostly indifferent, and I had complained about Asher just dropping things into the story with no reference or background, leaving me to flounder. Well, I have to retract that part of [...]
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More substantial posts on the way, but for now go enjoy this.
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When we first moved up here, we were out taking a drive north of here and stumbled over the Steelcase building. You don’t see buildings like this often, and I always wanted to take the time to find it again and snap a few images. Well, I had the chance on Saturday, and wanted to [...]
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Animusic looks pretty cool. Saw clips on PBS. Check it out!
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No real excuse to post this…
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PCWorld.com – The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time How many have you experienced? (tags: worst tech) Open Source Windows – Free, Open-Source software for Windows Someone has been pestering me to link free software. Here you go. (tags: free productivity windows) 9800 Free Fonts, fonts for free, font finder, download free fonts, free [...]
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The other day I purchased Bushido by Inazo Nitobe (1862-1933). I bought it out of curiosity. Like most geeky kids, I was keen on the idea of the Jedi code of living. Later, when I heard it was strongly based on the code of the samurai, I thought that sounded cool too. It was [...]
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Nice to see that Britain has their share of whacked-out moonbats. The Respect MP George Galloway has said it would be morally justified for a suicide bomber to murder Tony Blair. In an interview with GQ magazine, the reporter asked him: “Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber – if there [...]
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How NOT to lead geeks Feed and care of geeks in the business world. (tags: geeks business) Fall Asleep or Wake Up to the Cozy Tunes Pillow iPillow… (tags: ipod) Amazon Mechanical Turk – Welcome I have no idea what to make of this… (tags: amazon)
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Todd and I had a discussion about the vulnerability of Microsoft products to viral attack. A recent announcement about a Trojan that impacts MS Word led me to this article. There’s a lot in the article. But, I keyed in on the part that agrees with Todd’s observation that the likelihood of viral attack is [...]
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yWriter – Word Processor for Authors Yet another free writing tool. I haven’t tried it, so you are on your own with this one. (tags: writing software freeware) How to create an internet radio station | Poromenos’ Stuff My brother was asking about how to do this. Thought the link might help. (tags: radio internet [...]
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UPDATE – That little leak I mentioned at the end of this post? Well, I worked on it tonight and managed to split the copper pipe right open. Looks like this saga will continue… Original post follows: My last entry on home improvement left off with the kitchen sink project. Time to finish this sorry [...]
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RETRACTION – See comments for this post. Updated 5/24/06 FURTHER UPDATE – It seems others have the same thought I did about the reliability of the Detroit Free Press. No, it isn’t California, and the Ninth Circuit has nothing to do with it. In perhaps a well-intentioned, but pernicious example of political correctness, the Michigan [...]
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Via Instapundit. Jonah Goldberg from The National Review. All of those stories about, in Paula Zahn’s words, “bands of rapists, going block to block”? Not true. The tales of snipers firing on medevac helicopters? Bogus. The yarns, peddled on Oprah by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and the New Orleans police chief, that “little babies” [...]
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This must be a joke. The American Civil Liberties Union is weighing new standards that would discourage its board members from publicly criticizing the organization’s policies and internal administration. “Where an individual director disagrees with a board position on matters of civil liberties policy, the director should refrain from publicly highlighting the fact of such [...]
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Google News is free to make their own decisions about what site to carry and what sites to dump. They aren’t a public utility, so more power to them. But their decision to drop some sites critical of Islam due to ‘hate content’ raises some questions about where Google stands. Go Google ‘Jew’ and see [...]
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