In case you really needed add one more thing to your list of useless things your computer can do, you can now add simulating a monkey.
Finally, absolute proof of which came first, the chicken or the egg.
The final report on the Columbia investigation was published today. You can read the full version at the official website, or the condensed version on Yahoo.
Apparently Friday was National Slacker Day. I would have told you sooner except, well, I was slacking.
Tons of cool still frames from Casablanca. Site is in a foreign language.
Just in case you weren't ever sure how to go about pick up and dating a geek, somebody has made some instructions to assist you.
A man was passing by a small courtyard when he starting hearing voices and murmuring. He went in and saw an altar with a large zero in the middle and a banner that said 'NIL.' White-robed people were kneeling before the altar chanting hymns to The Great Nullity and The Blessed Emptiness.
The man turned to a white-robed observer beside him and asked, "Is Nothing Sacred?"
About a year and half ago, I brought almost all of my Lego bricks into work where a coworker (Alex) and I built a trebuchet. Even though I took pictures of it, I never did anything with the pics so, FINALLY, here they are:
For those that care, other than the sling, the only non-lego part(s) used in the creation was the counter-weight. For counter weights we used pachinko balls. (If you don't know, think of a pachinko ball as a 1/2 inch steel ball bearing.) If I remember correctly, we were able throw a mouse ball with an initial impact distance of 16 feet. We also built a different sling to launch one of the pachinko balls. That left a small dent the wall - after which went back to mouse balls which were safer.
So, my best pal Brett (who lives in Dallas) sends me an email while I'm at working telling me that Wil Wheaton is going to be doing a book signing here in Portland and that he wanted an autograph. Well, it would have sucked to be him because I work all day and he didn't tell me soon enough so that I could take some time off, except that I later found out that the book signing was at 7 PM, so I had to bolt out the door as soon as I got home to get there on time. (P.S. Thanks to Brian for finding the 411 for me.) Anyway, Wil is plugging his new book called "Dancing Barefoot" which I don't have a link to. He read a few bits from it and its really funny. Wil is also a really down to earth and just plain cool guy; it was probably the best celebrity meeting I've ever had.
Anyway, here is a picture of Wil looking really cool and me looking like a clueless DORK. But this is OK because the real point of the picture is so Brett can photoshop me OUT of the picture and put himself in so he can fake his friends into thinking that he was there when Wil signed his book for him.
I have also discovered that somebody photoshopped me and Kellie out of my picture with Norah Jones and turned it into a wallpaper. If, for some reason, you wanted to somehow take this new picture and photoshop both Norah and Wil together, then there is something extremely wrong with you and I hope you have friends who can snap you out of whatever it is you have.
apparently from their state competition. (45K)
