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Randomness

Here is a good suggestion from Slashdot — check out the
crew logs from the
International Space Station on
NASA's human spaceflight web site.

One good quote: "The only easy day was yesterday." — which is apparently a Navy Seals saying.

This always drives me nuts. I've read somewhere about a guy who has made a toaster that connects to the
Internet, finds the weather forecast and then toasts a graphic of the forecast on your toast. Now I can't
find that link anywhere, all I can find is this
obscure note. If anyone can
find the original article, please send it my way.

Quick Update: It was on the Register. The Weather Toaster
article I was in a twist about is here. It is
a cool idea though, even if it is a bit daft.

Oh yeah, give my sweater back or I'll play the guitar.

And yes, I was going to do a review of the new Mac OS X, but arstechnica has
a really good review already.

Survey time

Okay, how about a survey. For the women in our audience — if you had to choose between the two, which man would
you most want to spend time with:

• The man who was raised by wolves


• The man who was raised by show girls

Send your answers (with a little commentary on why) to me.

We have been giving Depressed Kev heck about his hair for a long time — but now
the mullet is back!

And folks, you know you have got a classy model when you see the
house arrest bracelet
on her ankle (via Fark).

Randomness

Official announcement! The plumbers have come by this week and now my house's pipes flow even when there is more
than one person's worth of water flowing through. So the RouseHouse is now open for the summer season. Some of the lads
came down a while ago, and the day trip to Wilmington plan seems to be a winner. Just bring your own towels.

If this kid can do it, Looser Life can too. We just need some momentum.
Go Team!

This article is just a little bit more than
disturbing. "Most women would find the prospect of dying wrinkled a lot worse than the prospect of dying of
dementia from collagen," — come on people, there needs to be more to life than that.

Remember when they said the Internet was going to change everything and the money would last forever?
Well, eCompany does.

Two of my favorite time wasters (make sure you have the sound turned on):
Zombo Com and Gooby.
"I'm in here inside the computer ... I want to be your friend."

MUDing

I've been looking for a misguided hobby (well, yes, a new one) and I think I've found it. Thinking about
how much I enjoy text riffs of an odd kind, like that dream restaurant segment, I've decided to go off and create
a whole world (a whole RouseWorld) full of odd textual descriptions. I've downloaded the
CircleMUD server and have been looking through the default world to get used to
how Circle does things. Perhaps I'll even get obsoleteSoftware back in action
to make a few changes to the stock engine. And um ... oh yeah, I am talking about a
MUD.

And now back to our regular selection of links:
Crouching kitten, hidden robot.
Are governments scary?
Yes! (NY Times link)

Second Amendment

I know not all of you guys dig Cecil Adams, but he has an interesting
lesson on the Second Amendment. Here's a quote:

However odd it strikes us today, the framers regarded private gun ownership as one of the pillars of their liberty.
They had recently defeated one of the most powerful nations in the world using an army that in the early going had
consisted of amateur soldiers using their own weapons. They considered these citizen militias vastly preferable to
standing armies, which in their experience had been instruments of oppression. They also had no professional police
force upon which to depend for defense of their lives and property. It seemed natural to them that ordinary folk
should have the right to own guns.

Thanks to Fark for that one.

Liberal wing nuts

Once upon a time in America it used to be only the Right that had Wing Nuts — guys hiding out in Montana
scared of the New World Order. But now, thanks in part to the silliness in Florida, we have
Liberal Wing Nuts. It is all proof enough for me that some
kind of balance exists in the universe.

Wayward packet

It has been a while, so I've pushed out another Wayward Packet.