This is related to the story last week by The Free Lance-Star, A missile punch at bullet prices, on the successful testing (by the U.S. navy) of an 8MJ railgun. It probably won’t mean much to earlier generations, but for those that grew up playing Quake 3, this is all too funny, and likely to… Read more
Last Monday was Laz’s birthday (28th; he’s an old fart now :P ), for which he hosted an Event of Suitable Appreciation (a.k.a. a BBQ) last night. It was billed as a Saints & Sinners costume party… which in a nutshell means guys dress more or less normally, and girls dress like prostitutes. Actually, most… Read more
I guess this better belongs in a category “Non-events”. Anyway, my roadtrip plans have been well and truly nixed, for the time being – there’s a lot of work to be done, for work, which I’m now committed to. It doesn’t really bother me all that much – I like the work I’m doing… it’s… Read more
Last Thursday Rob messaged me about playing Laserforce after [his] work. They have a cheap happy hour between 6pm and 7pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, which is too early for most people to make it too, but fine for me obviously and similarly suitable for Rob, since he works all of about 10 minutes away.… Read more
I’ve decided to use my awesome social influence – swollen at the moment courtesy of Rob passing the RoboWars movie link around work – for good, rather than evil, and make mention of Mathieu Tozer’s website/blog. I met Mathieu at WWDC last year – I’m sure I’ve dropped his name before here somewhere, back around… Read more
Yesterday was meant to be a big work day, and started out as such… but I got a lot more done a lot faster than I expected, so by midday I took a break. I ended up at mum’s, where I also found Johnny, painting. I’d forgotten that he was going to be there. It… Read more
Monday was fairly uneventful. I resolved to get the NYE DVD done… it’s been sitting in an almost finished state for something like a year now, the whole while sucking up nearly 10 gig of precious disk space on my Powerbook, so the situation’s a bit silly at this point. Unfortunately I decided not to… Read more