9.07.2006
9.03.2006
8.30.2006
Surprise: Thomas Kinkade is a scammer
We saw one of these in Pensacola (around 2000-01) & thought - they can't possibly be making any money - The FBI is investigating "Painter of Light" Thomas Kinkade and company executives over allegations that they fraudulently induced investors to open galleries, then ruined them financially.SFGate.
8.29.2006
8.28.2006
The Next Net 25
An interesting list of web sites/services from earlier this year - The Next Net 25: 25 startups that are reinventing the web.
8.20.2006
A favorite curmudgeon
H. L. Mencken - "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart."
First democracy and now computers
Revealed: world's oldest computer may explain a set of brass cogs & gears from 80 BCE.
8.12.2006
8.02.2006
7.31.2006
7.29.2006
Terms of the New.
I've been hearing this and now I understand. The Long Tail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This must be stopped.
The Ad: The mesmerizing ad for HeadOn. - Slate
and The Quackery: James Randi's Debunking
7.28.2006
7.25.2006
7.20.2006
Why I hate natural gas in houses
Near our longtime home - The Crimson White Online - Gas blamed in Calvary explosion - Tuscaloosa - map.
7.19.2006
7.18.2006
7.16.2006
Back from Tuscaloosa
We've had a fun weekend. Paul & Ferlie visited on Thursday. Friday we went down to Tuscaloosa & got to hang out with Patrick and his housemates. Got to eat at City Cafe and Rammer Jammers. All's right with the world.
7.10.2006
We'll be checking this site regularly
DaaVeeDee - your source of rare foreign, arthouse, cult, classic, independent and unusual movies on DVDs, all in English-friendly import releases.
7.07.2006
Hermits again.
Carey stayed with us til Thursday - we watched several episodes of Season 1 of Deadwood, some bad movies on On Demand and had an outstanding time. We'll see him again soon. We'll go back to being Hermits 'til the DQ game reforms on the 22nd. (Except for a visit by Ferlie & Paul next week).
7.05.2006
Almost everyone who reads this has been here
* I finished teaching summer school on Friday 6/30 - it was a grind, but well worth it - $.
* On Friday I played low-money, high-fun poker with my coaching/teaching guys - Lewis, Richie & Mitchell. Had a fine time.
* Billy came late Friday night - we played a game of PS2 NCAA Football and then Cassondra, Billy & I took a very entertaining trip to Wal-Mart in the middle of the night.
* We started playing the new EASports Head Coach game - it is incredibly addictive for OCD football micromanagers like me (and Billy, and Mike).
* On Saturday morning Roach joined us and by afternoon, Joel, Mike M., Mandy, and a their traveling friends, a cool couple with a happy baby, Emma, were all here to eat Billy's barbeque.
* We cooked and played Head Coach all afternoon.
* Billy, Mike, & I stayed up 'til three finally drafting our new players with a night full of trades & free agent signings.
* They took off on Sunday.
* On Monday Cassondra & I got her turtle corral organized and put up the fencing in front of the porch. Carey came to visit and stay with us on Monday - it's great to have him here.
* He spent the 4th with us - we watched Deadwood & cooked out twice (fine Ribeyes at 10pm). I finished putting the low rock wall around the turtle corral. Miss Fred immediately laid eggs in the soft dirt - it was a biological event.
6.25.2006
The Weekend
6.23.2006
6.22.2006
6.18.2006
Weekend Adventuring
Spent all day & night Saturday running a Dragonquest roleplaying game based in the world of my short story, "The Ancient Bridge" with six of my good friends from college. A fine time was had by all.
Interesting and a little unsettling
HUMAN EVENTS ONLINE - Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway - The American public is largely asleep to this key piece of the coming “North American Union” that government planners in the new trilateral region of United States, Canada and Mexico are about to drive into reality.
6.16.2006
6.13.2006
6.10.2006
6.06.2006
BBC NEWS | UK | England | Southern Counties | Honours for Britain's oldest man
Honours for Britain's oldest man - 110 year-old WWI vet - : "In the past Mr Allingham has put the key to his old age down to 'cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women'."
6.02.2006
6.01.2006
This is exactly what we need
Bacteria-eating chocolate that produces hydrogen waste that can be used to generate electric power! - New Scientist Tech.
5.31.2006
5.23.2006
5.22.2006
5.20.2006
5.17.2006
For Tobermory: More of what we were worried about
Wired News: AT&T Whistle-Blower's Evidence and EFF: Class-Action Lawsuit Against AT&T for cooperating with NSA taping of the internet backbone to spy on American citizens.
5.14.2006
5.08.2006
Oh my.
Imagine having computer memory so dense that a cubic centimeter contains 12.8 million gigabytes (GB) of information. - Dateline Drexel
5.06.2006
5.02.2006
4.30.2006
Thumos...I like the sound of that.
Christina Hoff Sommers' Review of Manliness by Harvey C. Mansfield.
For Tobermory - Europe's powder keg
If we're lucky, the clash of civilizations will not end with a bang but a whimper, not with a mushroom cloud but the cry of the baby that brings a Muslim majority to Western Europe - newsobserver.com.
4.28.2006
Outstanding! One of the best shows on TV.
Rome Begins Production of second season
HBO's epic drama series ROME has begun production on its ten-episode second season, it was announced by Carolyn Strauss, president, HBO Entertainment. Filming of the new episodes will continue at Rome's Cinecitta Studios through next October, with debut set for 2007.
4.27.2006
Teddy
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." --Theodore Roosevelt
4.25.2006
Our good friend Paul is now a famous online boxing writer/guru
See Alexander "The Pretty-good-so-far" Povetskin
By Paul Clemmons at touch gloves.
Paul is also the main contributor to the Boxing Blog.
We want to be in his entourage.
4.23.2006
4.22.2006
4.19.2006
I have been saying this for 15 years:
"If you want to know where technology is going, follow the porn" - Porn Industry Again at the Tech Forefront - Los Angeles Times - - "The simple fact is porn is an early adopter of new media," said Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto.
4.15.2006
4.14.2006
4.09.2006
Does this article border on aiding & abetting?
I don't much care for this writer, but the info is very interesting - Would President Bush go to war to stop Tehran from getting the bomb? in the New Yorker.
4.08.2006
4.06.2006
4.02.2006
Talking and mowing
- This morning I talked to my good friend Joe Abreu for about an hour & a half. He works for the feds, lives in Fredericksburg & has two kids. We miss getting to hang out & play roleplaying games together. When I was first BoG Chair at Mallet, Joe helped me run things (or more accurately - I helped him). He was great friends with Cassondra & I was his best man. We talked about possibly getting online together for a game.
- Been communicating with Patrick about baseball & got 2/3 of the free agents I wanted.
- Mowed the field, made things look a lot better.
4.01.2006
Anniversary
Cassondra & I have been married for 20 years today. She is a great wife and genius. We had a good day. Eating, hanging out, talking, and burning limbs in our new copper outdoor firepit. I'm a lucky man.
-- The Tuscaloosa County Courthouse where the deed was done.
