Travelling Alert Again

I’ll be going out of town again shortly, from about Thursday to Monday, so posts may be a bit slow around here til then. I’m taking the laptop with me and should be able to update stuff from anywhere, but we’ll see what happens. My cousin is getting married in Idaho, so looks like [...]

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Random Image: Strange Telescope? Telectroscope!

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Settlers of Catan — Homemade Version

I’m currently in the process of making my own homemade version of the boardgame Settlers of Catan since the retail version is around $50. The game is about intermediate on the simplistic-scale, and it has a lot of pieces. I would classify it as a combination of RISK, Monopoly, and the somewhat obscure [...]

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Them Crazy Gas Prices

I just heard on the radio on the way home from the store that Diesel prices in the UK are now over $10 per gallon — over half of which is taxes! Trucking companies are naturally going nuts, calling for the government to provide some kind of relief since the majority of the cost [...]

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Random Image: For Those About to Fly

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Clarifying Ripley: Federal Hill in Bardstown KY

The May 22 Ripley’s Believe It Or Not comic panel had a blurb about “Federal Hill”, a mansion in Bardstown Kentucky that has 13 windows in the front, 13-inch thick walls, 13-foot high ceilings, 13 mantels and 13 stair steps.
I tried looking it up and found all sorts of picture galleries and such, including [...]

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Random Image: Tree Pencils?

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Debunking Forwards: Iraq “Did You Know” Stats

There’s an email forward that’s been circulating since at least 2003 that lists loads of statistical data about various accomplishments in Iraq now that Coalition forces have been present. I doubted that I could find verifications for all of the individual stats listed, and Snopes doesn’t bother to go that far either. One post [...]

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Dolphins Blowing Bubble Rings

While we’re on the subject of things I’ve never heard of before, I’ll go ahead and tack on this video about dolphins swimming around in an aquarium blowing rings of air bubbles in the water and either sailing thru them, clipping one side and making a secondary ring and following it around, or whipping it [...]

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Random Image: Used Cows

Pilfered from Toothpaste..

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Timewaster Game: Music Bounce

I got to level 9 before I had to give up. The levels go pretty quick, and it’s pretty easy to figure out without reading all of the rules. It’s Music Bounce, something loosely similar to Arkanoid, but patterned around music.
You open little gateways on the left that release a ball [...]

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Cover of “Mary Had A Little Lamb” by 13-year-old

Check out this video of a 13-year-old acoustic guitar player doing Stevie Ray Vaughn’s Mary Had A Little Lamb. It’s way better than you’re thinking ^_^

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Awesome job ideas: “Shipbreakers”

I’d never heard of the idea, but I admit it sounds pretty darn spiffy. There’s a company in Brownsville, Texas, that takes old sea-going ships and takes them apart for the metal scrap. This picture shows a battleship being gradually torn apart, courtesy International Shipbreaking Ltd in Brownsville. Apparently there’s another shipbreaking [...]

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Diorama Dismantling Frustrates Students

Looking back over my backlog of newspapers I should have been reading, there’s an interesting blurb about a Civil War battle diorama that was dismantled after only a short while, which took years for a bunch of school students to set up. Since the article didn’t contain a picture, I figured I’d try the web [...]

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Kenya Journal Finally Released

I took a handwritten journal over many of the Kenya trip events, and have compiled a final draft of the 50-page journal (that, if printed out, comes to around 33 pages typed). It’s really really long, so except to come back if you plan on reading the entire thing. It took a long [...]

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Cardboard Furniture and Container Classes

Came across something I’d definitely be interested in. I usually make all of my own eBay sales containers and such out of reused boxes from prior eBay auctions I’ve bought (among other things) and like to think of myself as pretty good with a craft knife, cardboard and clear “Duck” (brand) tape. However, this [...]

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Folded Dollar Bill Message Prints

See if you can pick out the messages in these folded and scanned dollar bills. The artist who formed them is selling prints of them as posters and such. Not a bad idea, I must say. Dan Tague’s Money Prints.

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