The Washington National Cathedral has a grotesque...in the likeness of Darth Vader. Via a friend on Facebook.

You're really foolish for starting this discussion on such a wide-open list...and then not stifling people's verbal diarrhea, pigheadedness, and snarking. A recent decision to send every single possible point out for discussion, each in its own email message, finally had me annoyed enough to kick pieces of equipment. Fortunately for the health of my monitor, there are two important settings on this email list account: "digest" and "no mail."

I've started with digest. It got...quiet. And, if you all annoy me too much, I can go nuclear...er...no mail.

...to jump into. A young deer at the National Zoo jumped into one of the enclosures today. The lion enclosure, as it turned out. (Alas, when the deer was finally rescued, it was badly injured -- even though it look like it escaped in the video -- and had to be put down.)



Via Bits & Pieces.

Wow.

...it's just another itty-bitty brick in the wall. And Mike got this from a vendor back in the day:



It's rather smaller than it looks...and glued on lucite, proclaiming it a piece of the Berlin Wall. (But it appears that somebody was practicing his macro camera skills.)

That's the problem with coming home early and flat-out exhausted: you don't notice stuff.

When we got home ~5:00, Mike went up to work some more, and I crashed hard for three hours. Just a bit ago, I noticed there was a full, complete, pretty-as-a-picture deck.

Woo hoo!

(And I'll even probably post a picture...when we see it in daylight.)

While one engages in various sorts of gaming activities, from the FRP type, through poker, and on to armchair football, snack foods are often involved. And Timeless Robot has this list of the 10 most beloved (and bad for you) snack foods consumed while gaming. Which do you find nummy? And is your fave not on the list?


Poll #1483223 How do you snack?
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 30

Which of these incredibly-bad-for-you snack foods do you eat? (Check as many as you want.)

In a bout of incredibly cool nerdiness, this woman and her friend have put a Bluetooth module into a Star Trek communicator toy, to create a wicked, awesome cool bit that, if they brought it to market before Christmas, could make them a bundle. Instead, they post how to make one yourself on Make:Online.

The AP reports on a little-known problem with viruses: sometimes, they get you arrested for dowloading child pornography. That's what happened to one Massachusetts state official, who lost his job and spent $250,000 defending himself against the charges.

This wicked scary story is one to pull out when my students say they can't afford anti-virus software. Because the story proves you can't afford to be without it.

Via Fark.