ASCII Portal

It may not have the fancy graphics, it may not have fancy sounds, but ASCII Portal is damn fun to play. The best part is it reminds me of the games I used to play when computers had up to 16k ram only. Ahh the good old days!

The third skater from the sun pulls her arms in...

.. and the days on Earth just got shorter by about 1.26 microseconds. The earth quake in Chile has done more then you might initially think.

Update: Here's a report on the topic from CNN.

Side Note: Spring transition to daylight savings is gonna suck with 1.26 microseconds less sleep on top of the spring ahead an hour. :)

Healthcare Debate

I'm watching it as I code at work. I have to admit this is way better then anything I've seen in the past. It'd be nice if they would have had someone from the CBO there to clarify things when one side says the CBO said this and the other says that the CBO said that.

The only other thing I'd change about this right now is the moderator should be Larry the Cable Guy. I'd be highly amused if he'd keep everyone in their time limits and telling them even just once to "Git r done!"

Lego Robot Solves Rubix Cubes

Someone built a robot out of Lego Mindstorms that solves Rubik's Cubes in under 3 minutes. Check it out here.

Garbage Island

An interesting blog about traveling to Garbage Island.

Let it snow 2.0

Call me an Eskimo, it's more snow! About 2/3'rds of the snow on the bird bath was from the first snow.

It's been snowing since 4pm last night.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

And it did, over a foot and a half fell yesterday as you can see.