• Moblog

    Empty Hallways

    There is no point to this image, other than I was checking to see if I’d set up the pre-loaded div up right at Mfop2. It seemed to come over to the blog normally, so…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Lava Lamp Safety Drill

    A man who lived in a trailer in Kent, WA had a lava lamp that he decided to heat up on his stove (probably because the light-bulb heating element was busted, also probably because he salvaged it from somebody’s trash). So he put the sealed glass lamp – it’s actually a bottle, complete with bottle-cap lid that is normally covered by a metal topper – on the burner. After it exploded (an inevitable event) he was found dead by his parents with a large shard of glass in his chest. Our Lava(TM) lamp is quite safe and still catching odd…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Dark, Darker, Darkest

    One of the “joys” of winter is that not only is it bleak and cold, it’s also dark. So today, 3 whole weeks until the longest night/shortest day of the year, it’s already fully dark by about 420pm. It didn’t help any that it actually was very gloomy and overcast at 3pm today. My favorite seasons, in order, are: Fall Spring Summer Winter Winter moves up in the rankings when it’s pretty and fun, such as during or just after a good snowstorm (so long as I’m somewhere warm and dry, rather than stranded somewhere). It moves down when it’s…