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For the last year or so I’ve joked that I’m a Level 2 actuary and can cast magic missile.  A joke about which I don’t think anyone has yet laughed.  What once started as a joke now may become reality with NASA starting an MMO.  Besides being quite possibly the dumbest premise for an MMO [...]

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I’ve recently started to keep track of space missions and I’ve found the 5th Endeavour walk to be the most interesting.  Here’s the highlights:

Installation of 50 foot inspection pole added to the international space station (UN-in-the-sky, now with pool-skimmer attachment!)
 Extra long power cord for inspection pole (that way they can power the “International Space Station [...]

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Arthur C Clarke, the predictor of satellite telecommunications, and guy who made people shit scared of sentient computers has died in his in Columbo, Sri Lanka.  After losing Kurt Vonnegut last year we’re down to William Gibson and for emergencies JG Ballard.
If you’re lucky, you’ll get the ironic netflix ad on the AP site.
via AP

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Focusing on college-level and semi-pro competition BattleBots will be returning to ESPN on ESPN2 and ESPNU.  I now have a reason besides darts and pool to watch ESPN2.  I think we can all agree that this is better than when it was on Comedy Central.
For geekiest show on TV that tries to be somewhat popular, [...]

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Cat is fine.  Wound is scabbing over nicely and he’s lazy and cranky again.  And yes, Joe, should my cat ever die (which seems pretty unlikely at this point considering how long he’ s already lived) you may mock his passing incessantly.  Should I feel insulted, I will do the manly thing and re-direct all [...]

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Gary Gygax, co-creator and innovator of Dungeons and Dragons has failed his saving throw vs. death and is no longer with us.
On March 4, Gary Gygax died at his home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, after suffering two strokes in 2004 and being diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm. He was 69.
-Ars Technica “D&D cocreator Gary [...]

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Gizmodo via Audioholics via Consumerist has an article about a head to head test between monster cables and 4 coathangers soldiered together.  Based on the title, guess who won?
I will never feel bad buying monoprice.com cables again.

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On the way out the door this morning I caught pre-game coverage of uber Tuesday and Mitt Romney was talking.  The announcer mentioned his sons were also campaigning for him and during the sentence cut to a shot of Rick Santorum.  I think this could serve as a financial shot in the arm for Romney [...]

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(Demographics and Statistics Nerds Only)
As a protoactuary, I often talk with people on the train or where ever about things ranging form economics to demographics to environmental issues.  Matt Sundheim and I most notably have disagreed over the shape of the world in 2050.  I’ve always been called optimistic (I consider it realistic) concerning epic [...]

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A UFO sighting near Stephenville, Texas caused a bit of a brief stir last week and a traditional problem with UFO sightings has been sizing. Airborne objects are damn-hard to size as it could be a small object close or a big object far and getting roughly the same apparent size. One [...]

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