Willow Grove Air Show
My wife, two friends and I attended the Willow Grove (PA) Air Show on Saturday (9/14) and came away highly impressed.
Of note was the combined field assault demonstration put on by the military. It featured a Marines forward recon team inserted by Bell Huey in order to mark the target. Two overflights [...]
Greece to Ban Campers, Lamerz, n00bz
What the…?
Greece, in an effort to fight illegal online gambling, has banned all video games. All of them. No Playstations. No computers. No Gameboys. No bleedin' Snake games on your Nokia. All because the state apparently has no capabilities to distinguish legit games from illegal gambling machines/websites.
How insane is [...]
Update
An update to yesterday's post.
*sigh*
Diana, we hardly knew ye.
Shocked
I am in shock. After spending most of last week in New Hampshire, I returned to find an email in my inbox from my best friend, the upshot of which was: his life sucks. He took some extra time to graduate and was all set to (finally) get an engineering job that [...]
*Shudder*
Verizon (*shudder*) has switched its techies to Linux workstations, saving $6 million in equipment costs alone. Nice exposure for Linux, but why did it have to be Verizon?
In other news, Larry Ellison is still a jerk. A jerk with some valid points, yes, but still a jerk.
Busy.
Been busy here at work. Have I mentioned that I hate Oracle and Perl? Have I mentioned that the current project I'm working on employs both of those?
It's so hard to go back to Perl after using php for so long and Oracle is just overkill for what I need to do. [...]
Iron Monkey
Why have I never watched Iron Monkey prior to tonight? Is it possible for kung fu movies to kick this much butt and go completely unnoticed by Y.T.? Apparently, yes.
'Twas funny to realize that Ronguang Yu played Po in Jet Li's The Enforcer.
Anyways, highly reccommended.
