In Memory of Dad, or When Facing Angry Buffalo

For the third year running, the family got invited up to Steckel Park in Santa Paula to share in an awesome outdoor feast prepared by the scouts of Troop 262 from Camarillo. G and I hopped in the car and ate those 100 miles up in nothing flat. As with the past couple [...]

Teh LAN!!1

Thanks to Bloater for having us over to destroy his house with computers, network cables, beer, and food. It was good to see everyone! lo0mis, roland, madboy, bloater, tikoth, voodoo, sobchak, finsack, graywolf, phargle, and others all had a great time laying waste to each other in Supreme Commander and Smashball.
Here are two [...]

Sequences and Cygwin: died waiting for dll loading, errno 11

I was trying to use CPAN on a W2k3+cygwin box to install Sort::Versions (who would have thought that sorting versions was such a mess?) and ended up with
…died waiting for dll loading, errno 11
Thanks to Gareth Hunt’s post about this cygwin issue I was able to fix it.
My one addendum is that the above condition [...]

Lions vs. Alligators vs. Water Buffalo ftw

Thanks, voodoo, for this Youtube embed I found fairly fascinating. In all my years of watching Discovery, etc., I have never seen a battle this surprising.
According to Zombie, I completely missed the boat like 2 months ago on this one, but that’s pretty much in keeping with the rest of the things I post [...]

How to win a fight against twenty children

It was so lol, I just HAD to repost this. Thanks to Knightmare for the link.

How to Win a Fight Against Twenty Children
from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit
I’m not going to ask why you’re fighting twenty children. That’s your own business, although most reasons are as old as time [...]