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Oh Amiga, how I loved thee….
The Commodore Amiga computer turned 25 years old yesterday, the original Amiga 1000 having been released to rave reviews on July 24, 1985. Those were heady times for home computing enthusiasts, when programming was still largely in the hands of individuals or small teams and the wide assimilation of gaming into corporate monoculture (I’m looking [...]
Moon hoaxers busted…
I love critical thinking and skeptical writers, and I love finding an author who gets the message across in creative, accessible ways. Darryl Cunningham takes a unique approach to skepticism – he draws and writes comics. While this may not seem to be the most serious format with which to debunk nonsense, he is devastatingly [...]
Why the iPad critics are wrong…
Ever since Apple’s announcement of their new iPad device, there have been a plethora of critical articles and blog posts about how it’s a device that doesn’t measure up. It doesn’t multitask. It doesn’t let you openly install apps. It doesn’t have a USB port or an SD card slot. It doesn’t even run Flash! [...]
Jolly underwater Santa…
This is quite easily the best picture of Santa Claus I’ve ever seen. Click to enlargen. Seriously, this is a picture that’s dying to be captioned. Courtesy of The Seattle Times. See more interesting Santas from around the world here.
Happy Thanksgiving…
Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Here are some things I’m thankful for in the year 2009: I’m thankful for my family. I never take them for granted and I love them all very much. I’m thankful for my wife, who never gives herself enough credit even though she deserves it. She’s a great partner and I’d tag [...]
A few Thanksgiving movies…
There are a plethora of holiday movies out there, especially movies devoted to Christmas and Halloween, but there are relatively few Thanksgiving movies that are worth watching. This is a shame, as there is plenty of thematic material to be mined surrounding the Thanksgiving holiday. Nonetheless, there are a few gems to be had. A [...]
Halloween 2009…
Here is a small sampling of our Halloween festivities for 2009. Full photoset here on Flickr.
Horror movie recommendations for Halloween…
Halloween is quite simply my favorite holiday of the year (and don’t get me started on whether or not it’s a “real” holiday. It’s real to me, dammit.) One of the reasons for my fondness is horror movies. The horror genre has suffered a poor reputation due to the amount of schlock and outright bad [...]
Documenting the diet…
As my friends and family know, I’ve started a diet in order to lose weight, a lot of weight actually – I want to get down to 185 from about 250. I’ve decided to blog about it in order to keep a personal journal and keep myself going, so I’ve opened up Mike’s Calorie Burn [...]
Juniper Beach, Camano Island…
We had a fantastic time this summer visiting some good friends at their rented beach cabin on Juniper Beach, on Camano Island, Washington. Juniper Beach is located on a tidal mudflat, where the tide goes out for hundreds of yards, leaving behind sandy mud that’s great for clam digging and kid mess-making. When the tide [...]
Picnic Point Beach…
Picnic Point Beach is our favorite beach in the greater Seattle metro/suburban area. It’s a choice spot because it’s off the beaten path (so it never gets too busy), has a very cool stream that runs down to the beach, and plenty of trees and picnic spots. It’s a terrific beach for shell hunting and [...]
Honoring our vets on Memorial Day…
To all our military veterans who have given their lives in service of this great country, you have my utmost gratitude. Thank you. Here’s an interesting interview by ABC News with 108-year-old Frank Buckles, the last known living American veteran of World War I. I’m surprised to hear there is no national memorial to the [...]
Some excitement at work today…
I’m a service operations center engineer, and I work odd hours – Sunday through Tuesday and every other Wednesday, 12-hour shifts. Normally, Sundays are very slow and frequently boring, but today the fire alarm went off and my co-worker and I went packing outside. We knew right away it was no drill, as we hadn’t [...]
The Boston Globe’s summer grilling guide…
Throughout the cold, wet, dark and dank Pacific Northwest winters, there are two things I look forward to about spring and summer more than anything else: wearing shorts, and grilling on the barbeque. When the warm weather finally rolls around, I like to do most of my cooking over the coals (yes, I’m something of [...]
Conquer Club review…
My favorite online game at the moment is a website called Conquer Club. It’s free to play, and you can upgrade to a paid membership for more benefits and privileges (mainly, more simultaneous games allowed and prettier medals). Basically, the game is just like Risk, but because it’s online and computerized, it has many different [...]
Milky Way rise…
You’ve seen sunrises and moonrises, but have you ever seen a Milky Way rise? The Milky Way is the galaxy our solar system resides in, contains at least 200 billion stars, and it’s a pretty magnificent sight if you get to see it in a truly dark sky. Unfortunately, most people live in towns and [...]
9-year-old plays Randy Rhoads on guitar…
It’s fun to see kids play instruments well, and this is one of the most impressive I’ve seen. His guitar is probably bigger than the kid (and it’s a great Randy Rhoads replica), and while his singing voice approximately matches Ozzy Osbourne’s to a disturbing degree, his guitar playing is pretty impressive. Check him out [...]
Privacy settings for Facebook…
Facebook seems pretty simple on the surface, but there are actually a lot of options underneath the hood, and I’ll readily admit that as a new user, I don’t completely understand them all. I’m especially interested in the privacy options available to users, but those are some of the most esoteric settings. Here’s a great [...]