Wikileaks is a pretty big deal these days, and in the last short while -- as the US government has started to subpoena the private communications of Wikileaks supporters -- I've read a lot of comments on the supposed hypocrisy of individuals within Wikileaks wanting to retain their privacy while touting transparency …
Char snapped this at my request from the traffic jam that nearly kept us from the launch site. At this point in the trip I had nearly given up hope of making it to the launch viewing site, but shortly after this we passed the security gate, ensuring that we'd …
To the great (pink) Cthulhu, you are all sheep!
You can't see it, but his mother has an xbox controller in her hands.
Char and I just spent the weekend in Jasper, one of the few vacations we've taken both in north america and on short notice.
It was really, really nice.
We didn't really do a lot; lounged around the hotel, lazed in the pool, walked a bit. Maligne Canyon is freakin' …
Just a brief aside... having seen this twice now (Both with the same company) I can [not]{#not}_ get over the bizarre juxtaposition between the cutesy CGI-ish ferret creatures and the movie for which this song was written.
See youtube
Seriously, WTF.
And we're in.
It's a pretty flash place.
So, thanks to a great many friends -- of whom only two have a web presence, and therefore get a web shoutouts -- the move went off as close as can be to the ideal "without a hitch" experience.
I would like to formally …
It's quite a sight, the spew of boxes collected into three large stacks and two small ones. An entire life... scratch that, two entire lives piled up and ready to uproot.
Char and I are entering into the second most significant collective choice we'll ever make; it comes a reasonably …
Anyone that partakes in a sport that is outside the norm will have some reason or other for doing what they do. Mostly, their reasons boil down to vague notions of thrill or of challenge; they want to do something that scares them, or …