Archive for August, 2007

Orioles

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Ok, the Orioles are now 0-9 since announcing their new manager. Could we move him back to being an interim manager please? Edit: So they finally win one! All it took was the manager being ejected from the game! Not that I am saying there is some kind of sign here or anything.

Dark Side Reenacting

Monday, August 27th, 2007

I used to be an active reenactor and may be again someday but I have always struggled with understanding those who are drawn to the dark side of reenacting. These are the people who actively seek out the ‘bad guys’ in a historical period to portray. I put ‘bad guys’ in quotes because you can [...]

Congratulations To Dave Trembley

Thursday, August 23rd, 2007

Congratulations to Dave Trembley on his confirmation as Orioles manager for 2008. The Orioles celebrated by losing the most lopsided game in American League history to the Texas Rangers. 30 to 3. That is a football blowout, not a baseball score. At least we seem to be holding our lead against our dreaded competitor, Tampa [...]

How to be a Ninja in Ten Easy Steps!

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

How Stuff Works explains How To Be A Ninja. In case you, well you know, were thinking about creeping around castles at night in black pajamas.

Wikipedia in the News

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Wikipedia is back in the news as someone has developed a scanning tool that will tell where people who edited an article were coming from. This has led to the shocking news that people from government agencies and corporations have been editing some articles. Firstly this is old news. Secondly why should we care? I [...]

My Apologies

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

The descendants of some people in New Guinea have apologized for their ancestors eating some other peoples ancestors in 1878. They almost shouldn’t have bothered really, they only ate four people, the Vikings in Ireland killed thousands a thousand years ago. Oh wait, the Danes say they are sorry for that too. Whew, now we [...]