uhhh, I thank Edward for the inspiration...

Got the idea for this after talking to Ron about Edward's adventures and subsequent exile...




Hope it's even remotely funny =) Took like 30 minutes...you know, to start up adobe and scan it...

Cyrusse sells seashells at the sea shore

Or attempts to sell bags at the lab craft fair... Same thing. Here's my booth at the craft fair. A grand total of three people bought bags. Hooray for crappy economy that makes people paranoid about money (I so almost typed "monkey" right there hehe).So if anyone wants a purse, I've got plenty. And they've got nifty lobster tags courtesy of Defmoose, yay.

Cute furry thing of the day =)

Today's cute furry thing is the hedgehog. Cute prickly thing of the day. Well, whatever, they're cute and there's fur in there with the spines. Despite evidence to the contrary, they are not blue and speedy and can't spindash. Hedgehogs are found virtually all over the world except here in North America, which may prevent me from trying to hug one and getting poked. Unlike porcupines, hedgehog's spines don't easily detach, so their only defense is to curl up into a prickly ball and hope no one wants to go through the trouble of getting prickled in order to eat them.

Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online

Hey guys, this link comes via 1up networks:

Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online closed beta



After you click on the link, you should get a key and a download for the installer. Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine Online is the MMORPG of the Persona series. Apparently you get to dress up demons. One of the podcasts I listen to said it was reltaively fun and scaled well on old and new hardware. It's also free. It's one of those pay for a nice hat type RPG's, you know, the Korean model.

Wikipedia entry

PS my character's name is Cheveyo and hes on "Channel 6"

Step Two: You Put Your Junk In That Box

Stay with it until the end it's hilarious. The only warning I'll give you is that its SNL and it's an Orange Threat.

Multiple kill vehicle...

Ummm yeah, this from gizmodo. The link includes a video of Lockheed Martin Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV). What does it do? It's meant to "search and destroy multiple warheads and countermeasures using a single launcher".

Kind of looks like a drone from HL or any number of scary, that would suck in real life, machines...

What's really neat about this thing is that it kind of "floats" in 3-D space...I'm assuming it's just firing downward with enough firepower to keep itself afloat.

I wonder how much just this 30 minute run costs...beyond that, even though it's supposed to be for countermeasures, imagine this thing used against a normal human population? I know there are worse...but this is oddly different....

Tales of a Data Monkey

So all of these years as a data monkey are finally paying off. One of our papers is getting published in "Energy Policy," which is actually fairly respectable in the field of energy and resource analysis, even if the rest of the world has no clue what it is. So yay! (I wouldn't bother trying to read the article, it's not exactly exciting... just pet me and tell me I'm special or something hehe)