So, you've gotten tired of playing Halo...

You've watched all the Warthog Tossing videos...

Try this to pass the time, a flash warthog launching game.

BOOM... WHEEE!

Thank the maker there are people like MC who are willing to take a bullet for the rest of us.  MC provided an excellent review of the new 7-eleven (an American convenience store) cheeseburger hot dog.  Read for yourself: http://www.michaelconnolly.com/?EntryID=92

MC, you are a braver man than I...

but mmm... it sounds tasty!

From the horses mouth:

Cheeseburger Big Bite™ Hot Dog
Easy to eat perfection! It looks like a hot dog, but it tastes like a cheeseburger! Fresh from the 7-Eleven grill, beef and cheese combine to create the easy-to-eat one-third-pound Cheeseburger Big Bite Hot Dog. Add your favorite condiments or toppings! Yummy!

Update: corrected URL

Here’s a neat mapping exercise: someone has scraped Orkut for name and city data then mapped the results.  Visit and you can put in a latitude and longitude, or a zip code to see all the Orkut users who’ve listed that as their home.  Hmm, can I use this to find how may Orkut members are in prison?

http://www.datawhorehouse.com/orkut/

I've bit off more than I can chew... it's now clear.

A billion hobbies, too many projects at work and half-a-dozen half-finished home-improvement tasks.  It all lends to a constant feeling of “crap, what didn't I do?”

It's time for a project diet... but how?  It all has to get done.  Or does it?  I think it's time to make a list of what's important.  If it ends up on the bottom of the list, I'll find a way to get rid of it.

Sure, not exciting to you, but heck, if something doesn't go, how will I have time to post to my blog?

... and from there onto your CCD.  What to do?

I came across a good CCD cleaning tutorial on Luminous Landscape.

Been a little overwhelmed at work but I'm digging out.  Let me just say that mail order prescriptions is a really *^&!y idea.  My life has been screwed up for three weeks because of those idiots.

How to blow off some steam?  Penguin baseball.

• http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~hopha/penguin.swf
• http://home.tele2.fr/kcv/pinguin.swf
• http://www.casper.ru/temp/pingu3/?namn=422

Why three links?  I dunno.  You can hit the penguins farther with the last one though, so that must be worth something.  DeEtte got 1200.2!

Well folks, the guy who invented ctrl+alt_del is retiring.  The good news, we can still use his stuff.  David J. Bradley is retiring from IBM after more than twenty-eight years of service.  More on the inventor, David J. Bradley.

It's morbid, but is it helpful?  The Clark County Coroner in Nevada has started posting pictures of unidentified dead bodies on its web site.  Sure, it's creepy, but they have solved 3 times the number of cold cases this year.