Hey! If you’ve been too busy watching the Olympics, you might not know that the 2008 Hugo Awards were awarded at Denvention on Saturday. I’d only read 2.1 of the 5 Best Novel nominees (Halting State, The Last Colony, and Brasyl). Halting State was good but I didn’t think it deserved a nomination. The Last …
Monthly Archives: August 2008
Excellent Birthday
I can state with near certainty that this was one of the best Birthday’s of my whole life. Saturday was just about perfect, from waking up with out anything needing to happen, to drinking a pot of coffee, to playing Guitar Hero III (present # 1) to the party in the evening. ‘Twas awesome. I …
New Phone
Jenn and I upgraded our phones today. We have Dashes, now. I chose this specifically so I wouldn’t have to fight the technology in order to sync up my Outlook tasks. So far, things seem to be a success. Of course, T-Mobile pulled a lovely bait and switch on us. We showed up at the …
Learning Computer Stuff -and- Birthday
For my birthday, I decided I needed to learn more about Mozilla Thunderbird. Specifically, I decided to remove an email account before transferring over all the email inside it. Whoops. Thus leading to “how to recover a removed Thunderbird account” google search. Thankfully, it’s easy. I’m moving all of my email accounts (bruhsam, junk account, …
Happy 888
We need to go out and play some 8-ball, y’all!
Eureka
Jenn turned me on to the SciFi channel show, Eureka. It’s smart, funny, clever [add your own adjective here] and fun to watch. At least it was. This is the third season. We watched episode 2 last night and I have to say, “meh”. By all means, rent/borrow/buy seasons 1 and 2. They were excellent. …
Really Cool Book: Great Scientific Experiments
I’ve been reading a library book titled Great Scientific Experiments by Rom Harré. It contains discussion about the scientific method and how experiments contribute to it. It has 20 experiments that “changed out view of the world”. It’s very interesting reading. A lot of each experiment’s discussion talks about the history and preconceptions that led …
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Wii Update
My back is better. Yay. I’m to the point in Wii tennis that even when I win, I lose points. (translation, I’m just that damn good) It’s amusing to watch two people who are (ahem) tennis-challenged flailing around with the Wii paddles. The other day, I managed to make one of the computer opponents launch …
August 6
Today is a day to remember. Not only is it the anniversary of the first use of combat nuclear weapons, but it’s also the anniversary of the first use of an electric chair to execute a criminal.
Paris Rebutts
Thanks to Mike for pointing out this video to me. Although I’m sure I’ll see it on the Daily Show soon. Paris Hilton rebutts the McCain campaign advertisement.