Archive for April, 2006

Just chillin’

by @ Wednesday, April 26th, 2006. Filed under Fishtank/Reef, Misc

Today I received my chiller from Aquatic Exchange. I want to highly recommend the site and it’s owner ‘Bob’ for excellent customer care and communication. When the original one I requested wasn’t in stock, Bob offered to match the price on a more expensive one – he also checked out my work in progress for [...]

Parenting Tip for Evil Bastard……

by @ Monday, April 24th, 2006. Filed under Adrienne's Head, Misc

I have often written asking for obnoxious toy ideas for my nephews and given my top obnoxious toy lists for the pre-school and under set. (by the way I have a few new ones to add) Well, here is away to get back at your neighbors when you have kids. Pay attention Evil Bastard! You [...]

Mario

by @ Monday, April 17th, 2006. Filed under Art, Misc, political perspective

For Evil_Bastard, I present The People’s Mario.

Reefballs

by @ Monday, April 17th, 2006. Filed under Fishtank/Reef, Misc

While searching online for some of the concrete plugs that people use to clone/frag their coral, I stumbled on Reefball.com. These man-made reefs are designed to quickly transplant and re-deploy existing threatened coral – step by step how-to. Among their accomplishments is basically rebuilding entire reefs. Sadly, it probably won’t be enough.

How to offend others with your advanced vocabularies

by @ Wednesday, April 12th, 2006. Filed under Misc

I thought I’d come up with a common set of words that, in a certain social contexts, can get one labeled a Bolshevik agitiator and locked up in prison. That’s an exaggeration, of course, but here is a list of often innocuous, yet frequently misunderstood, words.

KittenAuth

by @ Sunday, April 9th, 2006. Filed under Misc

Hahaha, instead of random pictures of letters and numbers (aka Capthas), how about picking out the kittens? Try it out here.

Dr. Aquarium online

by @ Monday, April 3rd, 2006. Filed under Fishtank/Reef, Technology

The developer has allowed me a chance to beta test the newest version of software. I finally got around to setting up all the dyndns/port forwarding etc. So, here is a live link to the web interface for graphs.

Writers at War

by @ Monday, April 3rd, 2006. Filed under Misc

I’m reading a book called A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945, and it is excellent.

If Evil_Bastard could be persuaded to write letters to public companies…

by @ Sunday, April 2nd, 2006. Filed under Humor, Misc

I think they might come out something like this: The video came as a pleasant surprise, and while I am generally not a fan of medium-budget films directed at pre-teen audiences, I am big enough to recognize the one you showed as an excellent example of the genre. So the movie played, the night deepened, [...]

Zombie’s amongst us?

by @ Saturday, April 1st, 2006. Filed under Misc

Apparently Gizmodo‘s 4/1 prank is to zombify their website.

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