Archive for June, 2007

Marvel vs. DC part X

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

This one’s a whopper. They made fun of more movies in this, then all the previous vids combined! They did a good job on the voices for Xavier and Magneto.

Marvel vs. DC Part XI: FF Edition!!

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

Short and sweet…

I’m getting a lot done on the comics, I nearly have the first month done!

Top 10 signs you’re addicted to RSS

Tuesday, June 12th, 2007

If you don’t know what RSS is, check out this video first…



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If you’re up to speed, read on…10. Disappointment overwhelms you whenever you visit a site with no feed link.

9. You know the names of all the major feed readers/services by heart.

8. Using bookmarks/favorites is suddenly too much work.

7. You don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t use RSS.

6. You know what “burning a feed” means.

5. You suddenly have much more free time on your hands….

4. …which is spent subscribing to more feeds

3. You spend more time clicking ‘Refresh’ than visiting non RSS-enabled sites.

2. You actually know what “RSS” stands for.

and finally…

1. For certain users: If you’ve ever reached The End of The Internet.

Backyard Bamboo Blaze

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

Sorry, I couldn’t resist the alliteration on this one. Last night while we were eating dinner there was a flash of red that seemed kind of odd. At first we thought it was just a firework (we live on a Native American Reservation and fireworks are legal year round, so it being near the 4th doesn’t have much to do with it.) Then we heard what we thought were firecrackers, a lot of firecrackers. An incredibly long string of firecrackers.

It wasn’t firecrackers, it was a fire crackling.

We have a wall ‘o bamboo in our backyard and a decent sized section of it was flaming. We don’t have a picture of it as I was busy putting it out while my wife called 911, but here’s an example of about how big it was.

And here’s some of the aftermath.

It’s hard to tell, but the fire was also on our neighbor’s side of the fence and there’s a big leaf maple tree back there that was starting to catch fire too. This all happened in about five minutes so it very easily could have lit the whole backyard. But I sprung into action with the garden hose and just blanketed the area with water and put the fire out.

Then it started again.

Like those trick birthday candles the bamboo had stored the heat and re-lit. So I sprayed the area again and again while it re-lit two more times. Even when the fire dept. arrived, they had this cool device that could monitor heat and there were still little hot spots about a third of the way up the bamboo shafts and they had to spray for awhile until things were okay.

The moral of the story? If you think you hear firecrackers check your bamboo.