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Monthly Archives: June 2006
McDonalds and Education
I ate a McDonald’s Happy Meal last weekend. On the bag the meal came in were various fun and exciting things to do! Some involved dinosaurs (always a good item) and some involved space and rockets! Woo hoo! Go McDonalds! However, there was a quote that said, “You can jump 6 times higher in space!” …
Animation Domination
Regurgitating more stuff from milkandcookies.com, here is a fight between animator and animatee. I heartily approve.
Let's Go Whalers!
I watched the first two periods of Hurricanes/Oilers game last night. ‘Twas quite exciting. However, I did not know who won until I checked the score this morning (Suprise! Oilers screwed the pooch!). But that is all secondary to the reason for this post. Checking the SI article to see what happened in the game, …
Does God exist?
Apparently, God does not exist. Here is the empirical proof.
Conic Juggling!
I’m a big fan of MilkandCookies.com. It presents a panoply of entertaining videos. I highly recommend it. Some of my friends are incessantly bombarded by IM hits from me containing urls such as the one below. Tonight’s plug is for Conic Juggling, an exhibition of momentum and timing.
Getting Things Done
Getting Things Done, a.k.a. GTD, is a self-help book written by David Allen for people who want to get their lives (not professional or personal, but the whole shebang) under organizational control. I confess that when Jenn first brought this book home I was skeptical. Well, “skeptical” might be a bit of an understatement. “Deriding” …
Pern on Film
There is news that Anne McCaffrey’s world of Pern will be brought to film sometime soon. We’ve heard this before, of course, but this one looks more positive. Ms. McCaffrey mentioned that there were negotiations ongoing when we saw her at Dragon*Con last September. I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I …
55 MPH Around Atlanta
This link takes you to the google-hosted video of an exercise conducted by some students. They examined the effect on I-285 around Atlanta when everyone is forced to drive the legal speed limit (55 MPH). Some background for anyone who doesn’t live or drive around Atlanta: I-285 encompasses the entirety of the downtown metropolitan area, …