December 2007
59 posts
Watching Judge Mathis, looking at how much freaking snow we have. The sidewalks have snow-walls!
Thinking about not working tomorrow, yet still having a long list of to-dos.
1421: The Year China Discovered America →
Gavin Menzies claims that a massive Chinese fleet of huge junks and support ships made a two-year circumnavigation of the globe, with extensive exploration of the Americas, nearly a century before Magellan and Columbus.
If alien spacecraft are so advanced… why do they need lights?
ESPN - Wisconsin vs. Texas, December 29, 2007 →
What a game. This one really goes down in the books as a GREAT Wisconsin basketball win. I’ve still got shivers. Amazing.
Flowers, Wisconsin Upset Texas, 67-66 →
Wisconsin’s Michael Flowers hit a long 3-pointer with 2 seconds to play, then stole Texas’ inbounds pass and tossed it high in the air to run out the clock, lifting the Badgers to a 67-66 upset of No. 9 Texas on Saturday.
Bucky is hanging in at Texas.
Forgot my MacBook adapter at work. Gotta get it!
The Musicnotes newsletter is done and sending… going to leave early today!
Planning my 2008 world take-over.
Snorting a Brain Chemical Could Replace Sleep →
Wow. I’ve always wondered if this was possible. If no one needed sleep I wonder if we’d all do more things in life that we wanted to, or if we’d all be forced into working an 80 hour work week as a societal norm.
It feels like I should still be on vacation.
Wow. Firefox 3 beta 2 is fast.
Open Source Living →
A collection of the Web’s best Open Source software, applications and references.
Our First Christmas →
The eggnog is empty, the wrapping paper is <strike>in the garbage</strike> in a box ready to be moved to the garbage, and my brain and body are tired from traveling.
My Christmas started on Saturday morning as Mandi and I traveled north to Chippewa Falls to see my family. We ate, sang, played games, continued our traditions (reading Night Before Christmas enthusiastically, letting the...
Largest Diamond Found in Space →
10 Billion Trillion Trillion Carats!
Merry Christmas everyone. I’m glad to be back home and relaxing… Lots of great times and fun presents though!
The Christmas Miracle of World War I →
During World War I, in the winter of 1914, on the battlefields of Flanders, one of the most unusual events in all of human history took place. The Germans had been in a fierce battle with the British and French. Both sides were dug in, safe in muddy, man-made trenches six to eight feet deep that seemed to stretch forever. All of a sudden…
6 hours of 30 mph in the snow. Yuck.
I’m always broke after Christmas. I guess that means I’m more generous than my friends and family.
Finally! Christmas weekend is here.
Why does today suck? I have 3 days of stuff to do in a few hours. Yippee.
New Year’s resolution… Do more of what I’m doing and continue to find higher levels of doing it.
jQuery’ing it up.
There’s a fly stuck in my office ceiling.
Clear skies and 25 degrees. Nice.
NFL Fines 5 Falcons for Vick Tributes →
Roddy White and four other Atlanta Falcons were fined by the NFL for violating uniform regulations with tributes to Michael Vick during last week’s Monday night game.
Couple Gives $175M for Wis. Scholarships →
The retired chairman of the computer networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. and his wife said Tuesday they are donating $175 million to help Wisconsin students pay for their college education.
'Death Star' Black Hole Fires at Neighboring... →
A powerful jet from a super massive black hole is blasting a nearby galaxy, according to new findings from NASA observatories. This never-before witnessed galactic violence may have a profound effect on planets in the jet’s path and trigger a burst of star formation in its destructive wake.
I usually like Mondays. Not this one.
Leno, O'Brien Return Without Writers →
NBC’s two late-night franchises are coming back. Will the laughs come with them? Jay Leno and Conan O’Brien plan a Jan. 2 return with fresh episodes, ending two months of reruns brought on by the writers’ strike, the network said Monday. But until the strike is settled, the hosts will be on their own.
Ready for another exciting week! Let’s watch A Christmas Story…
Sending a hundred Christmas cards!
Suicide behind bill to ban military gambling. →
A bill in Congress seeks to eliminate military slot machines overseas that take in $130 million a year, mostly from soldiers. Aaron Walsh, a decorated Apache helicopter pilot, eventually was discharged from the Army and committed suicide after several failed attempts to break his slot machine addiction.
13" Macbook Laptop Skins | GelaSkins →
Really cool skins for my macbook
I can’t think of what to get the step-mom for Xmas.
Is it just me or does it seem to get colder the more people talk about global warming? They just keep on talking.
@sarahcarr84 Wish I was in SD this weekend… it’s freezing in Madison.
The new Google Cal Sync for Blackberry is so frickin’ great!
Listenin’ to November Rain…. jeeyah.
I keep getting download errors on my Pearl. Ugh.
It’s so peaceful at work before someone else gets here.
Having a Rock Band party tonight. Leaving early for real entertainment… Badger basketball.
UPS saved 3 Million Gallons of Gas-- By Not... →
Mapping out routes for its drivers, drastically reducing the number of left-hand turns they make helped the company shave 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes, which has resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas and has reduced CO2 emissions by 31,000 metric tons.
Why can’t people just keep their stupid comments to themselves.
Bucky vs. MU tonight. Gonna get cleaned up fresh and clean to watch the slaughter.
Blue Lotus Floatation Center →
Sensory deprivation float, hypnosis, and massage place that’s close to Madison.
It’s finally Friday, but with all this snow all I’m going to do is work all weekend anyway.