Happy Birthday, Mithras!

So it’s Christmas time again. I’ve successfully purchased all the gifts for Jessie from me and from Hannah. (That includes birthday presents since her birthday is right before Christmas.) The tree is up. The stockings are hung – by the front door on some coat hooks since we don’t have a [...]

Google adds new cities to Street View

In the exciting world of online maps, Google has added some new cities to its collection for the Street View feature of Google Maps. To my surprise, they added Indianapolis. What was an even bigger surprise was that they added a lot of other cities and small towns from all over Indiana. [...]

Still working on that regeneration ability

Hey, according to this article I’m more highly evolved than all those brown-eyed people out there!
“Ten thousand years ago, no one on planet Earth had blue eyes,” Hawks notes, because that gene—OCA2—had not yet developed. “We are different from people who lived only 400 generations ago in ways that are very obvious; that you can [...]

Chuck Norris Approved

Not that I’m supporting Mike Huckabee, but this ad is hilarious. High marks to Mike Huckabee and his ad team for the perfect use of humor.

Trials and Tribulations – Fedora Core versus Mythbuntu 7.10

You won’t see this very often, but I have to say that I’d gotten a bit frustrated with my MythTV setup over the last few months. For a long time, I had things working very smoothly with Fedora Core 5 and MythTV 0.20. Crashes were extremely few and far between. The machine [...]

Complex Life – Just Add Poo

I just found a very interesting post on Wired.com about a new theory on how complex life evolved. It appears to boil down to saying that evolution of life on earth was pretty stagnate for a very long time. As soon as feces producing organisms appeared, this changed the ecosystem of the ocean [...]