Archive for August, 2008

Six Times the Calories

Friday, August 15th, 2008

     If this is true, then I pray Mr Phelps doesn’t end up having severe health problems later on!

***Update:  H/T to Anwyn (and apologies for forgetting in the first place!)***

Posted in Fitness & Health | 1 Comment »

Clarke’s Third Law Applied

Monday, August 11th, 2008

     It appears that the highly-desired Cloak of Invisibility that my Dungeons and Dragons characters were searching for over 25 years ago was finally found in a lab at UC-Berkeley.

     No wonder Ug the Barbarian-Ranger never found it, it wasn’t in a dragon’s lair–it was in an ivory tower!

     Click here for more Arthur C. Clarke quotations.

Posted in Engineering | 1 Comment »

This Could Get Ugly

Friday, August 8th, 2008

     I was a bit surprised to read Georgia had moved troops into South Ossetia and Russia had in turn moved troops in and had started bombing Georgia (CNN, FoxNews, Johnson’s Russia List (via e-mail)).

     It’s like Bizarro-Kosovo/Serbia. 

Posted in International Relations, Military Affairs, Politics, Rest of World Military | No Comments »