Powdered Non Sequitur Man

DIY flamethrower. (Link via Gizmodo)

A friend of mine who works for a museum just emailed me a picture she titled “Morale Building Exercise.” And that’s all the caption I’m going to give you…

We now have a garbage disposal and two in-wall forced-air electric heaters in our home that weren’t there a few days ago. This is good, as these things will make our lives better in very small but measurable ways. This is bad, as no matter how appreciative the non-home-improving partner is, the phrase [...]

Wow. As reported in this Salon article,
Four justices — Sandra Day O’Connor, William Rehnquist, Anthony Kennedy and Stephen Breyer — held that the Bush administration could detain a citizen such as Hamdi without charging him with a crime only if it provided him certain due process protections: the right to a hearing, the right [...]

Eurobad ‘74 is a collection of images of some of the most godawful interior decoration I’ve ever seen. I remember being in houses that looked like this. Boy, I’m glad those times are over… (link via Boing Boing)

The post title on craigslist reads (Are you a Tech Girl?)

So my brother’s in town, which means the house is a mess. He’s actually a pretty self-contained, neat guy — but when he comes up here, we work on the house. Which is good, but which also means that there’s a lot of tools, dust, and random materials lying on every available surface. [...]

Went to Reed juggling with Lance and Vashti last night. Got more of a workout than I expected, and now I am sore today. You wouldn’t think juggling could make you sore, but apparently you haven’t been a lazy bum for the past year either…

Check out Canada’s latest quarter design.

In Las Vegas:

Vegas is like Disneyland, if Disneyland had no open container laws, no smoking laws, and lots of porn.
Distances on the Strip are much further than they appear, because everything is so damn big.
This does not actually say “NEWS BLOG.” (Taken in “New York, New York.”)
Cirque du Soleil rocks. Even if they [...]

Back from vacation to discover that I now have 5 more Gmail invites — email me (geeksam at the appropriate domain) if you want one.
Also have just been informed that Fred Meyer has a baby sale, but somehow I don’t think we can just go pick up a baby… and now to bed, as soon [...]

We’re leaving in about an hour to go to Las Vegas (to see “O” and marvel at the porn-version-of-Disneylandishness of it all) and Los Angeles (to see family and adopted family) — hopefully we’ll still have all of our lung capacity when we return late Sunday night!

Heh. My friends are rockstars. That’s so cool.

Linnea’s right: these ugly dolls are freakin’ adorable.

Justin IM’d me a link to Kingdom of Loathing, which may be the most surreal RPG-style game I’ve ever seen. Dunno if I’ll want to play it, but it’s good to know that such things are out there.
Special bonus: Help via the associated forum often comes in the form of haiku. Which [...]

So we went to the local n-plex to see the Cliff Notes version of Harry Potter #3. Overall, it was pretty good.
Pros: lack of Chris Columbus’ slavish transliterations; excellent visuals; Gary Oldman not immediately recognizable as Gary Oldman; painful Trelawney scenes kept to a minimum; and as F pointed out, Hermione being easily [...]

Impossible Objects — this is quite inspiring. That’d be a highly entertaining hobby…

Since that wacky Blogger user Justin was kind enough to throw down a GMail invite, I need a few messages to play around with and test the thing out.
So send email to “geeksam” [at-or-around] “gmail.com”. (I’d been hoping for “sam.lg” but inexplicably, their script didn’t seem to think that was six characters long. Smooooooooth.) It [...]

w00t! I got a B in calculus, which means I didn’t bomb the final too badly. GPA should now be 3.91.

In a way, you could say my PC has impeccable timing. It waited until about 30 hours after the last final of the term before dying. I got home from a dinner meeting with three other Access developers to find that my computer had apparently been continuously rebooting for a few hours. [...]