Archives for May, 2006

Love For Sale


We’ve come to a crossroads at which we’ve committed to moving to Dallas. To that end, we’ve put our house on the market.
It was our first house and we’ve put so much into it (a new roof, new plumbing, had large trees planted, painted and painted some more, refinished and restored hard [...]

Download & Print a Pinhole Camera


I’ve always wanted to try out a pinhole camera, and now you can download, print, and make your own for free at Linatree.com. There’s even a contest to get your work published!
If any of you try this, I want to see the pics! (Jenn & Melissa, I’m looking in your direction)

Don’t Try This at Home, Kids


Or apparently, for $30, you can. Flickr user tesla1000 has posted a series of home made Tesla coils. Woudn’t you love to greet your friends with this for your next party?
More than likely, they’d be afraid to come too close to your house.
They’d be smart.

On Target


Returning from our recent trip to Dallas, someone pointed out a complete rainbow in the clouds during our descent into Kansas City. I scrambled for my camera and managed to catch it just before ducking below the clouds. I realized that the shadow of our plane appeared to be entering the perfect circle [...]

Finally, A Smart Fuel!


It seems they’ve finally found something useful for all the BS in the world. No, really!Scientists in New Zealand how made biodiesel using algae floating on sewage ponds. The company claims to be producing 1 million litres of fuel by the end of the year!Now, if we can just build windmills to capture [...]

That’s One Angry Liberal


I recently read a post on Boing Boing of C.B. Shapiro’s “Hark, the Angry Liberal Sings”. Here’s an excerpt; you can read the whole thing on Boing Boing. When listed all together like this, it kind of puts things into perspective and does make a little angry… I feel like I need [...]

Napoleon Who?


I know this is floating around the internet, but he’s pretty amazing so I just had to share
I think he’d make a pretty good drag queen, as long as he could do all this in 6-inch heels!

Stephen Colbert is a Genius


If you haven’t already heard, or if you’ve heard but haven’t watched it, you should check out ThankYouStephenColbert.org. Stephen Colbert is one of the funniest and most brilliant comedians around. I loved his completely straight faced delivery of BS on The Daily Show and now on The Colbert Report.
He spoke at the White Correspondents [...]