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If you’re unfamiliar with the characters and plot from Half-Life and Half-Life 2 focused around the character of Gordon Freeman you can skip this and not feel that you missed anything.

Coast to Coast AM is a radioshow that I’ve found I’m only able to take in 5 to 10 minute bursts and focuses on cracked conspiracy theorists talking about psi and other junk.  Anyone, the host Mr. Noory was pranked by someone calling in as Gordon Freeman and bought the line, darg.  Video here.

I found this from skepchick.org.

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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 pilot swept this away by using an object metric: “It was bigger than a Wal-Mart”, said a pilot in the area. First heard during an NPR spot, text available here.

In writing the search tags for this post I giggled when I wrote “UFO, NPR, Wal-Mart”

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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 pilot swept this away by using an object metric: “It was bigger than a Wal-Mart”, said a pilot in the area.  First heard during an NPR spot, text available here.

In writing the search tags for this post I giggled when I wrote “UFO, NPR, Wal-Mart”

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Economics of Commercial Sex Work from the Economist.com

I’d be curious if the wage increase caused by having a pimp is cause or correlation.  Pimps could be an associated service like having a fixer/personal assistant that can help with scheduling and so on akin to an agent.  Alternatively, pimps could merely be trying to feed off of successful prostitutes like volcano insurance salesmen.

I’d like to also see data regarding STI infection rates and if there’s a niche market for condom-only workers, much like the premium placed on cocaine from verified uncut stock.

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I’ve spent the day trying to find the trial version of Microsoft’s OneNote software after I installed Vista on my tablet.  Most people would identify three problems with that statement, but I shall continue.  I couldn’t find the official trial to convert to a registered version as everything on Microsoft is like “only homos use 2003, 2007 is as amazing as Vista over XP!”  I broke down and searched the tubes for a torrent of the files I needed but a version that wasn’t cracked as I had a valid registration code.  I finally found and installed one only to discover after the install that the program was in Icelandic.  I then tried to remove the program except that the removal options were in well, Icelandic so at each removal prompt I had to guess which option to pick only to discover I had hit the Icelandic word for “cancel” or “repair”.  After about 6 tries, I removed it only to find that in the installation process, the default Office language had been changed… to Icelandic.   Ugh.

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I was sitting at my computer today setting devious traps with explosives in Team Fortress 2 when I heard a screech and a car slam into what I assumed was a telephone pole as the lights went out.  It took me a minute to realize that was actually the case as every device from my modem to my computer monitor is on battery back-up.  The power wasn’t on after a few minutes and thinking to past experiences I decided to go to bed at 8:00 PM as usually it takes hours for PECO to respond.  I was later awoken by my dog that had to pee and glanced at my clock versus my watch.  The power came back on less than 3 minutes after I went to bed.  I was so angered by this I slept for a total of 16 hours.  I wish I got angry like this more often.

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I ran a session today on how to avoid bullets during a firefight based on a wikihow.org article largely to positive response.  I’d like to expand this to a merit badge-like program at camp along with other activities like how to barricade a door, kill a zombie and jump off of a building into a garbage truck.  Ideas?

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I ran a session today on how to avoid bullets during a firefight based on a wikihow.org article largely to positive response.  I’d like to expand this to a merit badge-like program at camp along with other activities like how to barricade a door, kill a zombie and jump off of a building into a garbage truck.  Ideas?

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Troop 380 had Troop Leadership Training and the Scoutmaster Josh Reass didn’t show surprising no one.  The kids were a bit slow at first so I busted out the big guns: The Bugaloo song.  Nothing, these kids were dead.  Skip Davenport and Mike Shavel gave me a bit of an odd look as I screamed “would you like to scratch your balls!”  The kids became a bit less death-enwrapped during the afternoon when we did training training.  The kids quickly picked up the elements of avoiding gunfire but ran into trouble rolling over tables without exposing their head and confirming their positive outlook by yelling “I will survive” before starting to serpentine across an open field.  They were getting a bit tired and I had to stop after teaching them to duck-and-dash to avoid sniper fire in case of a public shooting.   Training was downhill from here as they got restless so by the end of the day I trusted the kids neither in the troop room nor in a firefight.  Completely worthless.

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Troop 380 had Troop Leadership Training and the Scoutmaster Josh Reass didn’t show surprising no one.  The kids were a bit slow at first so I busted out the big guns: The Bugaloo song.  Nothing, these kids were dead.  Skip Davenport and Mike Shavel gave me a bit of an odd look as I screamed “would you like to scratch your balls!”  The kids became a bit less death-enwrapped during the afternoon when we did training training.  The kids quickly picked up the elements of avoiding gunfire but ran into trouble rolling over tables without exposing their head and confirming their positive outlook by yelling “I will survive” before starting to serpentine across an open field.  They were getting a bit tired and I had to stop after teaching them to duck-and-dash to avoid sniper fire in case of a public shooting.   Training was downhill from here as they got restless so by the end of the day I trusted the kids neither in the troop room nor in a firefight.  Completely worthless.