On the far-future Earth-like planet, Arbre, scientists, philosophers and mathematicians—a religious order unto themselves—have been cloistered behind concent (convent) walls. Their role is to nurture all knowledge while safeguarding it from the vagaries of the irrational saecular outside world. Among the monastic scholars is 19-year-old Raz, collected into the concent at age eight and now [...]
Archive of entries posted in April 2010
More Wii homebrew: running games from a USB hard drive
I dabbled in Wii homebrew last year but didn’t do much beyond getting the Homebrew Channel working and messing around with a few apps. Then last week I saw this post on Lifehacker and thought, I have got to try this. The Lifehacker tutorial is pretty straightforward … the Wii hacking community has done some [...]
Maybe we should have played P-I-G
My daughter’s basketball practice was canceled this evening so we drove over to the local park to shoot some hoops so she could still get some “practice” in. After some warm-ups and basic practice, the three of us decided to play H-O-R-S-E. Needless to say with my daughter being relatively new to basketball, she quickly [...]
One of the scariest things I’ve had to do
I’ve been skydiving (twice!). I’ve evacuated from a jet (on the tarmac) and gone down the emergency slides during a passenger-initiated evacuation (back in 2003 when someone thought there was an engine fire). I’ve been to a GWAR concert. All of that pales in comparison with what I had to do today: coach a bunch [...]
Running with Toadies
While driving home from work this evening I had my iPhone on a random playlist and these two songs played back-to-back: “Pretty Fly for a Rabbi” by Weird Al Yankovic and “Possum Kingdom” by the Toadies. Ok, yes, an interesting combination but that’s to be expected in a random playlist. What caught my eye was [...]
CyberPower CP1000AVRLCD UPS
My wife called me at work the other day to report she couldn’t get on the wireless network at home and that there was a loud whining coming from the computer closet. It turned out the UPS (an APC BX800 I bought in 2004) had bit the dust and all of the equipment (server, router, [...]
A day at Hollywood Studios
My sister came into town for the Easter weekend and yesterday we spent the day at Disney’s Hollywood Studios over in Orlando. The park was really crowded, evidenced by how quickly the FastPasses were being distributed: we got there around 10am and went immediately to the Pixar area to get FastPasses for Toy Story Mania [...]
Congratulations Flyers: 2010 NIT Champs!!
No April foolin’ here … my Dayton Flyers beat the North Carolina Tarheels 79-68 in the NIT Championship game at Madison Square Garden. Congratulations to the 2010 NIT champs! Dayton might also have won the last NIT championship, based on rumors that the NCAA will be expanding their tournament to 96 teams next year (effectively [...]
