Tomorrow we all go to Disney World

All packed up and ready to go.  We are all looking forward to this and we’ll be a week in Walt Disney World. The kids have been talking about this for weeks. We wont be gone that long but two grown ups and two kids means lots of luggage. I plan to take lots of [...]

George Carlin died last night

I woke up to some bad news this morning: George Carlin passed away.  His seven words skit was funny, but I liked his comparison of baseball versus football best.  And don’t forget his skit where everything the government did was fine or “the Terrorists Win”.

The exploration of Mars

Since I’m convinced that there is little intelligent life in the world (or at least in the U.S. government) let’s head to Mars for a moment.  From Gizmodo I followed this link to The Big Picture’s Martian Skies. The NASA Phoenix Mars lander has confirmed water on Mars.  That does not mean there is life [...]

Gears of War for Windows

The other day I was in Best Buy getting some Nintendo DS Lite games for the kids.  The Windows version of Gears of War was on sale for $30 so I got it.  I always get last year’s games. After the nightmare known as Halo 2 for Windows I was worried that the game would [...]

Firefox 3 is out

Get your latest copy of Firefox 3.0 here. Thursday openSUSE 11 comes out.  It’s like an open source cosmic alignment of the planets. I’ve avoided the openSUSE 11 beta only because I don’t have the time.  I’ve been kicking around Firefox 3.0 RC version and a couple of days ago, even Greasemonkey got updated for [...]