Playpen or baby jail?

At least this one cell comes with a cellmate and a dog.
--Cheski

Just ask Sean...

See. What did I tell you? Here is a picture of Sean the Kiwi enjoying
the wonderment that is a slinger. Go ahead. It is ok to partake.
--Cheski

Slinger

After a hard night of drinking? Nothing cures your ill like an amazing
slinger from Eat Rite. Might look nasty... hell it even sounds nasty,
but OMG it is truly a wonder to behold. The one you see... mixed up
contains: Beef patty, 2 fried eggs (over easy), cheese, chili, and hash
brown. Amazing... just ask Sean.
--Cheski

What the hell for?

Why are the screws that hold bathroom stalls together always the type
of screws that have fancy heads? What are you gning to do? Steal a
bathroom stall? Ghey.
--Cheski

We're baaaaaaaack.

After an outage cause by an expired domain and a registrar problem...
Cheskitech is back up. w00t.
--Cheski

Great name... not!

This guys last name is golden. Added bonus: he is a reverend.
--Cheski

In case of revolution....

This is a very interesting and humorous image that is floating around the net. I do not know who made it, but the graphic novel and now movie that this this is based on-- strikes a chord.



--Cheski

Rough night?

Mickey Mickey Mickey.... the booze.... how it comforts you.
--Cheski

Dukes of Hazzard Slide

Nice! - although maybe not as cool as Rubber Ball Guy. See below.

--Cheski

Rubber Ball Man!

Damn near the coolest thing ever

--Cheski

A point well made Phil Plait

Phil Plait over at Bad Astronomy blog posted recently about an interesting point about the NASA budget that is always under fire.

The short version: space exploration costs us very little. Need I remind you that we are basically setting fire to $11,000,000 per hour in Iraq? When I talk on this topic, I make an analogy: when your disk drive is full, do you go through and take hours to delete thousands of small text files, or do you delete that one big 3 Gb video file you never watch? NASA is a text file on the hard drive of the government.

Phil's post is about an article in Parade Magazine written by Neil Tyson and the ignorance of the general populace.

LINK to Bad Astronomy Blog article mentioned above

--Cheski

The world's remaining WWI vets

A blog recently caught my eye with details on the surviving WWI vets. Over at "The Shield of Achilles" blog , I read a eye opening post. LINK

Two brief excerpts

Believe it or not, there are still between 23-34 living veterans of WWI in the entire world. The numbers differ depending on how you count them; 23 living persons have verified claims of actually serving during the war. Another 7 men served shortly after the Armistice or in other concurrent conflicts such as the Russian revolution, while 4 more cannot fully verify their claims.

This article about 106 year-old Frank Woodruff Buckles, one of the few US WWI vets, is inspiring. Although he was only 16, he was persistent in joining the war effort, and so he lied about his age. He was turned away from several recruiters before finally managing to join the Army in 1917. He never saw combat, but in one of those strange twists of fate, at the outbreak of WWII he worked in a shipping business, was captured by the Japanese, and held prisoner for over three years. He credits one Filipino man with saving his life by bringing him food, and kept in touch with him over the years, eventually even paying for his children's tuition to college.

A link to a list with names and and service details for the remaining 23-24 WWI vets

Link (Wiki)

Another link with photographs of each surviving vet

Photos Link

Head on over and give some of this a read... pay attention to their ages.

--Cheski

ZOMBIES!

--Cheski

EDIT: Starting thinking about this... wouldn't a zombie barely show up on the thermal cam? I am thinking... dead people, especially zombies would not put off heat like this. Unless the situation is like 28 days later. Thoughts?