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The King’s English

We Netflix’d the BBC version of The Office and watched the entire series over Christmas break.  It was some of the best TV I have seen in a long time.  We have since queued up the NBC version.  In the past I haven’t […]

Maglite

The end cap of my mag lite flashlight has been stuck for over a year. I decided to google the problem to see if this was a common problem. Turns out it is.

ugh

It’s snowing outside now

but here’s a shot of our very brief autumn:

Lindsey made the hat.

Pumpkin Pi

I couldn’t resist.

Great special effects

Yes, we had to watch this in 6th grade.

Why do I bring this up now? Because the Something Awful forums have some colorfully astute commentary on the film.

Camera-Phone dumping grounds

These having been sitting around far too long:

This is a picture of a picture I saw on a wall at Wall Drug. Looks like the X-Games date much farther back than I thought:

This is when I found out Tommy has good taste in games:

As part of some “Sale-A-Bration” at a local grocery store, they […]

The wild wild west

I just got back from Western South Dakota. I saw Wall, Keystone, Deadwood, and Spearfish and visited such attractions as Wall Drug and Mt. Rushmore. It was every family vacation from my childhood all over again, but with scientists this time.

I read a news clipping posted on the wall at Wall Drug that […]

The grapes, they are a changin’

They’re turning purple. That can mean only one thing…

…invasion! By October, they will have taken over the entire back yard!

Chock full

I took some time off last week and “accomplished” a few things.
On Monday I finished both Half Life and Half Life 2, bagging the award for longest amount of time spent completing video games in the wrong order.

On Tuesday, I installed Windows Vista / Longhorn beta 1 (from MSDN) only to find it […]

Makeshift revisited

I just got the latest issue of O’reilly’s Make magazine today. This magazine is a must for any good geek as far as I’m concerned. One of their regular sections is called Makeshift,
in which they describe a tricky situation and ask their readers to find clever solutions. For example, in volume 1’s […]