Iron Man and his sidekick, Cardboard Lass.
Author: Marko
five years of castle frostbite.
This week marks the fifth anniversary of our move to Upper Cryogenica and the purchase of Castle Frostbite. When we loaded up the moving truck in Knoxville in December of 2007, Quinn was not quite three and Lyra just seven months old. In the beginning, I had a love-hate relationship with the new Castle. Robin…
africa for norway.
I love this so much, I can hardly put it into words. The perfect send-up of self-congratulatory, condescending Bono-type soy latte activism:
poor wittle mass murderer.
Anders Breivik, the Norwegian crackpot who massacred 77 people last year, isn’t happy about the conditions at his new residence at Ila Prison near Oslo. Apparently he doesn’t get enough butter for his bread, and the handcuffs they put on him when he gets moved around are “too sharp for his wrists.” Let me just…
historically speaking, peace in europe is an aberration.
Politicians in Hungary are calling for a list of prominent Jews in the country. Greece has been rioting pretty much for the last two years over austerity cuts. Spain and Italy are circling the same bankruptcy drain. France just lowered the retirement age for some workers to 62, while Germany—the country that pays off the…
zweipad.
One of our heavy-rotation pieces of technology is the iPad we got two years ago, shortly after they first came out. Robin uses it for therapy with her patients, the kids play games on it, and I find it handy for watching movies in the evening. With our upcoming trip to Germany, we figured that…
it’s not like it’s their money, right?
I am so fucking glad that my tax money is being spent on the Pentagon having a workshop that discusses whether Jesus died for space aliens too.
lovecraft OS.
Here’s a clever and disturbing Tumblr page with Windows 95 Tips & Tricks. (God, do those Windows 95 dialog boxes ever give me a flashback to my mid-90s tech support days.)
the surveillance state eats its own.
Here’s an excellent Salon.com article on the most worrisome and least-addressed aspect of the Petraeus affair—the fact that the Feds were able to dig up what they did without evidence of a crime, and without any warrants. Money quote: “Having the career of the beloved CIA Director and the commanding general in Afghanistan instantly destroyed…
dadcation again, and a request for a friend.
I get to spend a good chunk of today’s Dadcation at the tire place while letting them perform the biannual ritual known in New England as the Changing of the Tires. Because the all-seasons on there are down to “questionable” status after almost five years, I’m having snow tires put on, which means my wallet…