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• WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars
  The back story on Wargames.
  (tags: 80s computers culture movies)

• Chocolate Cake In 5 Minutes! | Dizzy Dee
  (tags: cooking howto)

If you have to ask if I’m looking forward to this, you are clearly on the wrong blog.

Check out the new tag line in my header. I’d like to thank Spunky for the inspiration.

Selected comments from the AFA Boycott McDonald’s web site. Warning, if you care about spelling, grammar or equality these comments may cause convulsions. You’ve been warned.

• The Soxaholix: Weekend surprise
  Best.Soxaholix.Evah. - (adult content)
  (tags: baseball, funny, redsox)

The last Thursday of the month is July 31. Clear your calendar and plan on joining us at J Brian’s from 6-8 PM to eat, drink and be merry.

We stayed out of the oppressive heat in these parts and stayed in the nice cool basement with a movie this afternoon. The kids and Michelle have read the books, I haven’t. I thought it was a cute and fun movie that is appropriate for the entire family. I certainly enjoyed it.

• BBC NEWS | Europe | Heavy metal monk in second album
  Via Red Molly in the Temeraire comments, a capuchin monk fronting a hardcore metal band. Sweet.
  (tags: metal music)

The cost rises in excess of inflation while the value declines. How would one short a college education?

Really, I do think the current teenybopper generation is going to be less concerned about the magical degree. If you can teach yourself intricate computer skills before age 16, why exactly do you need to spend $120K or more on college to get a computer related job?

Absolutely none of this is a surprise. My strategy for the door to door magazine people, as well as the kids selling crap in plastic crates, is to simply not answer the door. I’ve got my no soliciting note up, and I feel no responsibility to answer the door if they chose to ignore the note.

The next installment of the Temeraire series hit the streets this week. Breck and I headed down to a cool and funky little sci-fi book store in Richmond to meet the author, Naomi Navik.

Imagine the movie Master and Commander with domesticated dragons fighting from the sky and you have the Temeraire books in a nutshell. I can’t recommend the series highly enough.

• [ubuntu] editing grub - Ubuntu Forums
  (tags: ubuntu linux grub)