Five Fun Things Friday — Independance Day Edition

We keep our­selves pret­ty busy these days. Well, we cer­tain­ly man­age to fill the time with some­thing and hope­ful­ly most of it is worth the time we spend on it. So, this one is a week late, but with good rea­son. There’s always a few high­lights, though: Footrace — Inde­pen­dence Day morn­ing Angela and I… Con­tin­ue read­ing Five Fun Things Fri­day — Inde­pen­dance Day Edition

Battle at the Lighthouse

Battle at the Lighthouse
The mini almost between the two columns is my char­ac­ter: a tei­fling Warlord

I played D&D at Mike’s place on Sun­day evening. We play-test­ed a new LFR adven­ture before its release lat­er this year. The areas above rep­re­sent the bot­tom and top floor of a light­house the par­ty was storm­ing to take back from an evil skull lord. What’s a Sun­day after­noon with­out pre­tend­ing to defeat pre­tend evil?

Five Fun Things For Friday — Father’s Day Edition

Ah, you did­n’t think I had been doing noth­ing all this time, right? Of course not. Here’s a few things that have been occu­py­ing my free time: Chas­ing the Baby — She final­ly fig­ured out crawl­ing a cou­ple of weeks ago. Peo­ple had told me that one day she’d just get it and then she’d be… Con­tin­ue read­ing Five Fun Things For Fri­day — Father’s Day Edition

War on Photographers

Bruce Schneier on the cur­rent War on Pho­tog­ra­phers: …it’s non­sense. The 9/11 ter­ror­ists did­n’t pho­to­graph any­thing. Nor did the Lon­don trans­port bombers, the Madrid sub­way bombers, or the liq­uid bombers arrest­ed in 2006. Tim­o­thy McVeigh did­n’t pho­to­graph the Okla­homa City Fed­er­al Build­ing. The Unabomber did­n’t pho­to­graph any­thing; nei­ther did shoe-bomber Richard Reid. Pho­tographs aren’t being… Con­tin­ue read­ing War on Photographers

How to Fell a Giant

It seems that a month of high gas prices have been enough to weak­en the Amer­i­can resolve of dri­ving the biggest vehi­cles on the plan­et. Most rea­sons for why we drove larg­er vehi­cles than, say, our Euro­pean or Asian coun­ter­parts was that we had more space and longer dis­tances to trav­el. I think it’s pret­ty… Con­tin­ue read­ing How to Fell a Giant

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Right In the Thick of the Carbon

Sci­Am on a (depress­ing) report rank­ing the top 100 U.S. met­ro­pol­i­tan areas in terms of amount of car­bon emis­sions. The part that real­ly star­tled me (empha­sis added): The res­i­dents of Lex­ing­ton, Ky., Indi­anapo­lis and Cincin­nati emit the most green­house gases—nearly 2.5 times as much car­bon on a per capi­ta basis as their peers at the top… Con­tin­ue read­ing Right In the Thick of the Carbon

The Pheonix Has Landed

NASA had put the odds at around 50% of hav­ing a suc­cess­ful land­ing near the North Pole of Mars. Their track record of Mars mis­sions thus far was­n’t even that high (55% of mis­sions had been lost). How­ev­er, with amaz­ing suc­cess­es like the two rovers who have sim­ply kept going, that coin-toss of chance seemed… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Pheonix Has Landed

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Web Two Point Wha?

I think Wired’s epi­cen­ter blog needs to clar­i­fy one of today’s posts a bit: Big Pay­day for Web 2.0The biggest web deal announced today was CBS’ plan to buy CNET, one of the last inde­pen­dent online con­tent com­pa­nies, for $1.8 bil­lion, or $11.50 per share. The val­u­a­tion rep­re­sents a healthy 45 per­cent pre­mi­um over yes­ter­day’s clos­ing… Con­tin­ue read­ing Web Two Point Wha?