Spring break is in two weeks...

...and it actually feels like Spring may eventually happen. :-) Today's forecast high is 54°F. Rain, I grant you...but that'll just wash away some of the lingering snow.

Here's hoping everyone has a great day!

Spring break is in two weeks...

...and it actually feels like Spring may eventually happen. :-) Today's forecast high is 54°F. Rain, I grant you...but that'll just wash away some of the lingering snow.

Here's hoping everyone has a great day!

Well, *that* didn't work

An anti-shark device for keeping the nasty critters away from surfboards has met an untimely end...it was, ironically, eaten by a shark.

*snicker*

Well, *that* didn't work

An anti-shark device for keeping the nasty critters away from surfboards has met an untimely end...it was, ironically, eaten by a shark.

*snicker*

This seems so...planned

I always thought of writing people's phone numbers and email addresses on cocktaill napkins as...well...spontaneous. But for $6.50, you can take all that spontaneity out of things and buy a cocktail napkin notebook.



Via Nerd Approved.

This seems so...planned

I always thought of writing people's phone numbers and email addresses on cocktaill napkins as...well...spontaneous. But for $6.50, you can take all that spontaneity out of things and buy a cocktail napkin notebook.



Via Nerd Approved.

Asimov and household objects

A robot bathroom scale may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Oh, well done!

Asimov and household objects

A robot bathroom scale may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Oh, well done!

Why I love my husband: just one of many reasons

Only he can follow the bizarre, convoluted, circuitous, heavily-greased, switchbacking paths that guide my train of thought and reach the depot without being side-railed almost every time.

I am so damned lucky.

Why I love my husband: just one of many reasons

Only he can follow the bizarre, convoluted, circuitous, heavily-greased, switchbacking paths that guide my train of thought and reach the depot without being side-railed almost every time.

I am so damned lucky.

How very Bondian of you

Top 10 barely legal gadgets for the modern spy. For those of us who know that "Q" wasn't just a character on ST:TNG.

How very Bondian of you

Top 10 barely legal gadgets for the modern spy. For those of us who know that "Q" wasn't just a character on ST:TNG.

Thank you very much

I appreciate very much the people who took my poll and showed me who I knew and who I didn't of the folks who sometimes read or post replies to this LiveJournal. It helps to know that, in some cases, I should stop trying to figure out where I know you from ('cuz we don't know each other in an off-line, corporeal sort of way).

Aside from ann_totusek, who seems to think she's my husband (which is fine, Mike says, but now you get to pay the mortgage, and how are you with building a new deck?), most people appear to have understood the purpose of the poll. :-)

Thank you very much

I appreciate very much the people who took my poll and showed me who I knew and who I didn't of the folks who sometimes read or post replies to this LiveJournal. It helps to know that, in some cases, I should stop trying to figure out where I know you from ('cuz we don't know each other in an off-line, corporeal sort of way).

Aside from ann_totusek, who seems to think she's my husband (which is fine, Mike says, but now you get to pay the mortgage, and how are you with building a new deck?), most people appear to have understood the purpose of the poll. :-)

Now *this* I understand

Green Bay Packers MVP quarterback Brett Favre announced his retirement this year. He's not packing it in out of a sudden burst of anger or because he feels incompetent:

"I know I can still play, but it's like I told my wife, I'm just tired mentally. I'm just tired."

Yeah, I can understand that totally.

He's given us some great football over the years, and so the best thing we can do is wish him well and wave and smile when he's in the stands.

Now *this* I understand

Green Bay Packers MVP quarterback Brett Favre announced his retirement this year. He's not packing it in out of a sudden burst of anger or because he feels incompetent:

"I know I can still play, but it's like I told my wife, I'm just tired mentally. I'm just tired."

Yeah, I can understand that totally.

He's given us some great football over the years, and so the best thing we can do is wish him well and wave and smile when he's in the stands.

Those clay pigeons don't have a chance

I've always wanted to try shooting skeet...but it's probably wise to start with a smaller gun:

Those clay pigeons don't have a chance

I've always wanted to try shooting skeet...but it's probably wise to start with a smaller gun:

About those eBooks...

Earlier this week, I noted that if eBook readers increased a bit in functionality and usability and decreased in price, buying one would be in my future. But given my love of books, I appear to be in a minority according to this discussion at Ars Technica about a recent UK survey:

Book lovers have a message for e-book makers: you can have my paperback when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

We reported yesterday on the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey from the UK, which found that 70 percent of Internet users would stop sharing files if they received notification from their ISP. But tucked in the survey data was another fascinating finding about the strength of consumer attachment to traditional paper books.

According to the research, sponsored by UK media lawyers Wiggin, survey data shows books have the highest "attachment" rating of any leisure media activity.

On the other hand, it's also useful to note that books are enormously popular. Oh -- and it's the wood pulp kind of books, too.

When the survey asked about people's emotional attachment to paper books, 53 percent of respondents said that they would "never" or would "hate" to stop using them, and another 24 percent said they would be "uncomfortable."

Yeah, I've got that. Excuse me while I go pump some J.D. Robb pulp.

About those eBooks...

Earlier this week, I noted that if eBook readers increased a bit in functionality and usability and decreased in price, buying one would be in my future. But given my love of books, I appear to be in a minority according to this discussion at Ars Technica about a recent UK survey:

Book lovers have a message for e-book makers: you can have my paperback when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.

We reported yesterday on the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey from the UK, which found that 70 percent of Internet users would stop sharing files if they received notification from their ISP. But tucked in the survey data was another fascinating finding about the strength of consumer attachment to traditional paper books.

According to the research, sponsored by UK media lawyers Wiggin, survey data shows books have the highest "attachment" rating of any leisure media activity.

On the other hand, it's also useful to note that books are enormously popular. Oh -- and it's the wood pulp kind of books, too.

When the survey asked about people's emotional attachment to paper books, 53 percent of respondents said that they would "never" or would "hate" to stop using them, and another 24 percent said they would be "uncomfortable."

Yeah, I've got that. Excuse me while I go pump some J.D. Robb pulp.