Listen to this crap from an AP article: On Tuesday, Bush plans to visit the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., to talk about speeding the development of biofuels. The lab, with a looming $28 million budget shortfall, had announced it was cutting its staff by 32 Read more…
xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en xcnl > en (If you want to skip all this and just see the photos… click here) Let me start off by recommending against taking the night train to anywhere. I took the night train Read more…
We had to change the name of the trip this year since two of the original guys from the previous ‘Annual Guys Snowboard Trip’ are not in attendance and now we have to be more gender-neutral since our friend Katy Stefanidou joined us from Munich. This year the snowboard trip Read more…
— Update — This one is even funnier. From Wow. Lethal Weapon spoof. Thanks to my friend Dan for this gem. This is actually the third “machinima” I have watched after reading about the phenomenon in Wired.I watched this one made to explain the French riots from the point of Read more…
xcnl > en Two sucky pub quizes in a row. We got 6th place BOTH times. Last week we had a kickass picture round (movies, 10 fo 10), and we did awesome at the general trivia, but we got 7 out of 20 in the music round and that doomed Read more…
xcnl > en —– Update: Katrin rightly pointed out the link was broken so I fixed it. —– This just never gets old. “Babies EVERYWHERE!”
xcnl > en xcnl > en Five points. That’s how close it was. After leading the entire season, sometimes by as much as four games, I dropped five out of the last six games to leave the season tied at 9 games apiece. Guze and I agreed to make this Read more…
Came across this on Boing Boing and, since I’m tired, I kind of got freaked out for a second thinking about the implications of this. Parasites that alter behavior to encourage hosts to perform actions that are beneficial to the parasite. I probably shouldn’t be reading about behavior-changing parasites when Read more…
Wow. It’s hard to know where to begin. First off, this is a Korean movie, so if you are a prejudiced bigot about foreign films, stop reading. However, if you want to see a really really cool movie… rent OldBoy. It’s pretty difficult to describe this movie. I’ll give you Read more…
xcnl > en I really liked this film. All I knew about it was that Sam Mendes (director of one of my favorite movies – American Beauty) directed it, and it was about Marines in the first Gulf War. I was thinking, “Hmm, I bet Sam Mendes will make a Read more…