Space Pron

Can't help posting things like this. Here's the Endeavour docked with the ISS, taken by an Astronaut using a slow exposure so the lights on Earth below streak. Love it when real life kicks sand in CGI's face.

Crysis Management

Celebrating Memorial Day by playing an American soldier in a high tech combat nanosuit. When this game came out in 2007 it was the universal benchmark for your rig's video processing power. If you could play it with all settings maxed, you had geek bragging rights. Well I'm only playing it now, but I can set all the settings to the top so take that 2007 gamers.

100,000 Is A Lot

Best fantasy book I've read in a long time.

Aural Assault

Turn up your speakers. Now set this video to endlessly loop for about 6-7 hours. Welcome to Cicada hell. They start around 1 in the afternoon and go until the sun is completely down. If you don't have music or the TV on loud enough to drown them out it's like a dentist drill. I don't feel so bad about mowing them down in my car anymore. It's only been a week, they're supposed to be around until the end of June.

Third Taste

Since we missed the third thing we decided to have it delivered. Probably not as good as having it made fresh in front of you, but it was still damn tasty.

Chop Chop

Last night's storm tore down half of our left Bradford Pear. This is after about an hour of trimming all the branches down to the main limbs. At least there was no major damage, just a few dings in the fence.

Adventure Shoppin'

Went out grocery shopping on a weeknight. After dark. In the rain. We live on the edge baby! The title, BTW comes from a favorite Andy Griffith line:

Opie: "Aw, rats! If you was stayin', I was gonna get to sleep on the ironing board between two chairs."
 
Malcolm Tucker: "Sounds terrible!"
 
Opie: "No it ain't, that's adventure sleepin' "