What I need, really, is an interesting distraction. Really. And I’m sure you do too! So here it is: Pax Britannica! It’s a one-button real time simulator with up to four players, or you can play against the AI. Need more description? Here’s a Youtube video
Category Archives: Fun
Busy busy
Once again, I’ve been a bit too busy to keep up with the blogging. I don’t even know what I’ve been doing so I can’t tell you about it, however we have had a couple bike-centric Saturday’s recently. Last week we went to the Roswell Criterium, shown here… …and this week we biked the Atlanta …
Better Titled: "Hemingway's Takes on Classic Bar Jokes"
Bill Hammack is The Engineer Guy
Bill Hammack has a series of educational and entertaining videos about engineering. This is currently my favorite.
Superbowl Commercials – Blow by Blow to Halftime
We’ve got five people hanging out and watching the Superbowl while doing other stuff. In order to pretend that we’re being useful contributors to society, we’ve decided to evaluate the commercials as they go. Theme: Hack Job. Kitchen Upgrade with Bud Light Votes: 5 no 0 yes My opinion: Wow, that sucked. Usually Bud does …
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Inside an Accordion
We took a detour on the way home from the Peachtree City 5k/10k to deliver Sharon’s accordion to a repair shop. I got to see what the inside of an accordion looked like! Honestly, I had zero mental image of what the thing was going to look like when it was pulled apart. Thusly, I …
Astrology takes another Whacking
It appears that Astrologic horoscopes from Yahoo have a bunch of similarities. Big surprise, I know. Click through the image to go to the Information is Beautiful site that includes discussion of how that did this.
Not enough Math Geeks
The biggest fundamental problem1 with working as a Traffic Engineer is that most of my colleagues don’t get my math jokes. For example, I will have to explain this to a lot of people in the office today. 1: Truly, this is the biggest problem. Huge, even.
Attention Roleplaying Travelers: Tetrahedra Pack Best
Just now coming to my attention: Experiments in packing have determined that tetrahedra (4 sided dice) pack together most efficiently (subscription req’d) when randomly shaken in boxes. This news, from last year, is quite cool because how else do you apply the “Role Every Die You Own For Damage” rule unless you can pack your …
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Key West 2010
For Christmas and New Years of 2010, Jennifer, David, Sharon and I went to Key West! There was much fun and hijinks. You can see many pictures over at my flickr set (currently all the images are unlabeled. Hopefully I’ll get to that soon), but a quick run down is thus: Duval Street is a …