Fallout Shelter

Yay not II

First Halloween in forever where 1) I don't have candy to give out to little kids, 2) I don't have plans, and 3) I'm home. 

What the hell happened to that Prisoner t-shirt anyway?

Happy birthday. Not.

Three years ago today.  My brain and neck still aren't right. 

Well, that was amusing. Maybe we should have read the instructions.

I don't think I have a way to embed here yet, so:

http://bennylava.robertnlee.com/jesus-im-an-idiot

Schooling Chicago

This is insane:

"Before the 2006 school year, an average of 10-15 public school students were fatally shot each year. That soared to 24 deadly shootings in the 2006-07 school year, 23 deaths and 211 shootings in the 2007-08 school year and 34 deaths and 290 shootings last school year."

Chicago, I've visited you, and I love you.  This problem is horrible, and a city as grand as you deserves better.  Give yourself a gift: fix this. 

Good news/bad news

My inbox is down to 42 messages, but some of them are from as far back as January. 

A world-spanning filesystem from your Palm Pre...

... or how Alf got AFS running on his smartphone.  :)  Be sure to follow the rest of the thread. 

Jumpin' the blunderbuss, matey!

Arrr!

Separated at Birth?

Is there anyone else out there who thinks Gordon Brown looks like Terry Jones?  The pictures in their Wikipedia articles don't look much alike, unfortunately.  Root through some images if you like.

Makes me want to go watch _Shakes the Clown_

I didn't know Knoxville could be so surreal:

"Clowns Kicked KKK...."

[via Peach]

14th Annual Wake Forest Area Artists’ Studio Tour

There's an Artist's Studio tour going on for the next couple weekends in Wake Forest, east of Durham.  Some studios are less than 20 miles from me.  The tour's WWW site has details, including a PDF with artist locations and dates for September.  Studios will be open the weekend of the 12th-13th, the 19th-20th, or both (some are only open one weekend).  Times: from 10 am to 5 pm on Saturday and 1 pm to 5 pm on Sunday.  There are 20-30 artists involved in different media. 

I'm plugging this because my woodworking instructor, Bill Wallace, is on the tour; his studio will be open on the 19th and 20th.  (You can also see him at the NC State Fair in the Village of Yesteryear.) 

There's a central hub for the tour in the middle of the town of Wake Forest.  They open one hour each day before the tour.  You can get maps and refreshments there, and view samples of some work.  Most of the artists' studios are within 7 miles of the hub.  They suggest driving to the hub and planning out your trip. 

Enjoy.

So many wackos, so little time

Voices Revealed

That works out to about 17 d.s.i.

N.Y.C.'s "skinniest house," "then" and "now."

Tom Merritt Memorial Invitational Collard Cup Challenge

What can I say: they're family.  :)

Traffic circle makes the news again

"Group warns speeders of paintball gun"

Amusingly, WTVD has the Markham/Glendale intersection in Trinity Park.

Edit: video from WTVD and WRAL.  And, for what it's worth, I doubt that any of the people I imagine are behind this actually owns a paintball gun, or any type of gun at all.  It's not that type of neighborhood. 

And it gets better.

It's N.C. sales tax holiday weekend...

... which may not mean so much, as only some items are exempt.  But you should probably take advantage of it if you can, especially since our taxes are going to be going up anyway.  :(  The big surprise is that textbooks (PDF alert) are exempt.  Computers are the big one, with an upper limit of $3,500.00, plus computer accessories with a lower limit.  The first link above has links to multiple PDFs from the North Carolina Department of Revenue.  Happy reading, or something.  You've got until Sunday night at midnight.