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By Dorkface Rickens Ready or not, the future is here! This evening, I installed a new technology in my bathroom called a "mirror." I was excited to see what this could do, and skeptical of the claims that mirrors merely reflect the light...
My first impressions, review, and testing!
Read the full post at - Crater Lake Crater Lake has to be one of America's most photographed landscapes. But seeing it in person still exceeded the expectations. It has a depth of blue that I couldn't quite capture - and I don't think...
One morning I got a call from my younger brother Jaime. He was crying. He tells me my mom’s health, which had been slowly declining over the past month from advanced cancer, had reached the point where not much time was left. I was...
I think a lot of folks who follow this site already know this but people still make text adventure games like during the days of Infocom and they’re still very good! In fact, I think many of them are even better than the classics. That’s...
Say what you will about Paris Hilton, but she spent family money with the innocent joy of a golden retriever in diamond-studded sunglasses. She never asked us to believe that a shopping spree was dialectical praxis, never put on a cloth...
The internet can be a wonderful thing sometimes. This clip is from a 1982 French cop movie called Le Marginal, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. The featured car is claimed to be an original 1966 Shelby GT500, heavily modified, and driven in...
It eeked out today. Why even mention? I have a reason, a plan. But it was meant to be this past week was old school blogging the way I wrote them in say 2004. Short bits of anything. Everything. Mostly text. Where the “blogiverse” as it...
The gap between a great idea and a green light
You might know about sticky rice. It’s pretty popular in Asian cuisines, often used in desserts and specialty dishes. It’s sometimes called “glutinous rice”, but it doesn’t actually contain gluten. Instead, it’s sticky because of the...
Meet Pseudothurmannia — one of those marvellous Cretaceous ammonites that looks as though nature spent extra time on the details. This extinct cephalopod belongs to the subclass Ammonoidea and is tucked neatly within the family...