I found this image on the awesome http://firefighterblog.blogspot.com/ that’s getting a lot of traffic today and is posting a constant stream of fire updates, so be sure to subscribe to his feed if you’re following the fires. Originally from the MODIS Terra polar orbit Satellite (click the image for the source). The fire appears to […]
October 24, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
In case you were looking for it, here’s a list of fictional martial arts courtesy of wikipedia… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_martial_arts How did I arrive there? I was researching Vulcans. There’s a martial art called Suss-Mahn used by T’Pol in one of the enterprise episodes (which I just watched for $1.99 courtesy of the awesome Unbox) and it’s […]
October 22, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
It was a tougher game that I expected – in fact it was a bit of a nail biter. But we won and Bryan Habana has been named player of the year by the Rugby Board. 🙂 It was cool hanging out with other South Africans at St Andrews pub in Green Lake watching the […]
October 21, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
…or is it just me? Seems to have gone down for a few minutes at a time around 11pm to midnight for the last few evenings. It’s not tied to browser or workstation, but may be tied to our public IP address. All other websites work including news.google.com and blogsearch.google.com – just www.google.com seems to […]
October 21, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
Interesting video I ran across this evening looking for interviews with John Nash:
October 18, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
I was scrambling through a deep canyon on Sunday on Snoqualmie’s South Fork and ended up at this beautiful quiet pool that looked very deep and had a very nice brookie that grabbed my thin mint streamer after a few casts. I was reminded of an Afrikaans expression: “Stille waters, diepe grond, onder draai die […]
October 16, 2007 | Randomness | 2 comments
I paid my $30 bucks for pay per view and watched SA teach Argentina a lesson in Rugby respect yesterday beating them 37-13. Bryan Habana you are a God!! If anyone knows a good place to watch SA kick England’s arses next weekend let me know. [Preferably somewhere with more South African fans than English]
October 15, 2007 | Randomness | 1 comment
Monday mornings are our busiest in terms of traffic. We also get a ton of new user signups over the weekend which means that our numbers get a huge bump every Monday. So I reeeeally look forward to Mondays.
October 8, 2007 | Randomness | 1 comment
My Texan cousin-in-law and I were partying in SoCal recently and we got chatting about favorite songs. He mentioned Locomotive Breath by Jethro Tull was his favorite. I just heard it for the first time, and, um, wow! If you’re into hard charging gritty 70’s tube amp rock then you want to check this out. […]
October 7, 2007 | Randomness | No comments
There’s something about Southern California that is totally awesome. I dunno what it is. No, I’m not moving here, I love Seattle. But California rocks too in it’s own special way!
October 2, 2007 | Randomness | No comments