So Few IPs, So Many Electronics

It's world IPv6 day! Did you pop the bubbly and run around in the street with sparklers!? Nerd. I respect the need for IPv6 but I'm going to miss being able to memorize IPv4 addresses (though wide spread adoption is still a long ways off.) DNS is more crucial than ever. So if you take one thing away from this, remember to keep your DNS databases clean and up to date. If you take two things away from this, I need to get out more. If you take three things away from this you're a bigger geek than I am. And if you didn't understand any of this you probably do get out more.

Space

It's the new filler.

Another Hangover

Reviews have said it's not as good as the first one, I'll go so far to say it's not nearly as good. Still, wasn't terrible either. Picture unintentionally but fittingly blurry.

Thunder, Thunder, Thundershirt!

Mari saw this thing about these pressure shirts for dogs. Supposedly you put them in these special shirts and it wraps them up and makes them feel secure, thus easing many ails. Despite the very convincing videos on the web I was skeptical, but she got this for Maddie anyway. Here is the list of things we wanted to make better:

1. She works herself up into a panting, shivering dither during storms.

2. She does the same in the car.

3. She freaks out if you mess with her feet or tail.

4. When new people come to the house she has an ear splitting, screeching fit.

So we slap this thing on her a few times to test. In the car she just sits and calmly looks out the window, and she doesn't mind you messing with her tail at all. She still won't let you touch her feet however so it doesn't work miracles. As a side note on a recent vet visit I left it on (I put it on for the car ride) and she was so unnaturally calm through the whole visit I thought she'd been doped. There have been no storms and no new people to the house yet. So yes, I have to concede Mari was right, they do work.

The Other End

A Brent recommendation, this was an interesting concept. It runs the same timeline and events from Ender's Game but told from the point of view of a minor character in that book. I don't know that I've seen an author do that before, and it works well in this case.

The Cake Is A Lie

Three years and 1,341 pictures later, I'm still Snacking. This year my special thanks go to Brent, who introduced me to the concept of a picture blog. There would be no Snicker Snack without his input. And Mari, because there have been several times I've said "Eh, I think I'll stop doing this stupid thing." And she convinced me to keep going. Full disclosure: the real Snackaversary is May 2nd, I just forgot. (Editor's Note: I just noticed the cupcake image I randomly googled is exactly the same as last year with a different candle.)

WOTM

Welcome to June. 100 degrees and cicadas, should be a fun month.