…here’s a website devoted to ways to destroy the earth. As the web creator notes, it’s not quite as easy as you might think: All the explosives mankind has ever created, nuclear or non-, gathered together and detonated simultaneously, would make a significant crater and wreck the planet’s ecosystem, but barely scratch the surface of […]
As some of you know, I was a computer game designer some 20+ years ago, and I maintain an interest in computer games. Lately, I’ve been buying most of my games from Manifesto Games, a computer game distributor with a business model geared towards inexpensive (and downloadable) games from independent game companies. Well, my latest […]
[UPDATED 11/23/07] Note that I’ve now placed all my wallpaper photographs (including the ones below) in their own separate page on this blog (see the “Wallpaper” tab in the pages bar above). Here are some more pictures from last week’s snowstorm (we’ve had one per week since the week before Christmas), complete with wallpaper sizes. […]
Because they build things like this. According to this video’s description, this was built at a “millionaire’s home in Utah.” Hat tip to reddit. ..bruce..
…hope to be back home soon. And, apparently, there will be more snow waiting for me. ..bruce.. (Dayton, Ohio)
…we got another 4″ to 6″ of snow today: The third snowstorm in as many weeks swept into Colorado on Friday, further hampering efforts to restore power to rural homes and rescue thousands of cattle stranded by last week’s blizzard. And another storm is due in next Thursday/Friday — that will make four storms in […]
[UPDATED 11/23/07] Note that I’ve now placed all my wallpaper photographs (including the ones below) on their own separate page on this blog (see the “Wallpaper” tab in the pages bar above). [UPDATED 01/06/07] Since a lot of people appear to be linking to this post as well, I’ve copied the “Winter Sunset” photo and […]
[UPDATED 11/23/07] Note that I’ve now placed all my wallpaper photographs (including this one) in their own page on this blog (you can also use the ‘Wallpaper’ tab in the pages bar above). [UPDATED 01/04/07] Many thanks for Gaius over at Blue Crab Boulevard (one of my favorite blogs) for the link and the kind […]
Here’s a website where you can type in your age — and see what other people accomplished at that same age. For example: At age 53: Ludwig van Beethoven completed his Ninth Symphony despite being so deaf that, at the end of its first performance, he could not hear whether the audience was applauding. Best-selling […]
Gaius at Blue Crab Boulevard has a link to a wonderful set of archives: the complete scanned (and searchable) archives of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle (a newspaper) from 1841 to 1902. I love sources of information like this: they remind us both of how different life was back then and, simultaneously, how similar it was. […]
