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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Vancouver, in British Columbia, Canada, is one of my favorite cities to visit. It’s beautiful and pleasantly bustling, it has a little something to offer for everyone. Here’s a great time-lapse video someone put together of every daytime picture taken over the course of a year from a webcam overlooking English Bay. Interesting to see [...]
As reported by The Onion in another classic lol news report: And of course, if you need child care for all that time you spend at work not doing your job, you may as well outsource that as well:
The Panama Canal is a man-made canal that joins the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans on the northern tip of South America. It’s interesting to note that nearly 28,000 men died in the building of this structure, many of them to disease in the area – I had no idea. Typical passage through the canal takes [...]
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