Saturday, May 27, 2006

RFC Polo Shirt

Buy yourself a very nice looking Richmond Fencing Club polo shirt. I love mine!

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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Towel Day

It's Towel Day. Carry yours with you to show your mourning of Douglas Adams.

posted by Jeff @ 9:57 AM 1 comments

Wednesday, May 24, 2006

a bit of online fun

click the title there, and "zoom" forever. a simple, neat idea filled with good photos.

posted by Jeff @ 9:30 AM 0 comments

Friday, May 12, 2006

OK, so they're friendly...

Should I be scared of the opossum? Probably not. Should I have him trapped by animal control and taken away? Probably not.

The Opossum Society thinks they're good to have around, since they will eat mice, snakes, slugs, and other "pests."

Hmm... they eat mice, do they? I guess they aren't so bad after all. And how little I remember from primary school: Opossums are marsupials (not rodents), and they have a prehensile tail. Cool!

posted by Jeff @ 9:35 AM 3 comments

Thursday, May 11, 2006

latest addition to the Main St Menagerie

The house next door, the one with the pigeons roosting in the window, is being restored, and the pigeons have moved out. Woot! The downside is that like all good builders, they start hammering at 8:00am while I am still trying to get some beauty sleep.

In addition to the pigeons, other city-dwelling animals have been evicted.

Including a 12 pound oppossum.

You see his glamor shot, taken on my back porch (10 feet off the ground up a rickety staircase).




I never really thought of oppossums as anything other than roadkill. But after a few minutes trying to get him to pose prettily (without getting very close!) I see that he's really a giant, slow moving, carnivorous mouse. Even has ears like a mouse! Need someone to do his hair, though. Looks terrible in the photo. A video would do him much better justice, with cute paw-licking, ear turning, eye blinking, just like your favorite mammalian pet.

I called animal control, and then the emergency number provided in the voice message, and they say no one will come out "for a stray" at night. A stray? Is this someone's pet? If so, please come pick him up, right now!

posted by Jeff @ 10:27 PM 0 comments

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Awesome retro claymation arcade game

This is a very cool retro arcade game -- made in claymation style! It's a lot of fun to just veg out and play, although I have only used the free version so far. I need to buy a 1/2 decent mouse before spending anything on a (nother) way to make hours disappear behind the keyboard!

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Monday, May 01, 2006

Darth Tater



You couldn't have convinced me this actually exists. But amazon.com recommends it to me... for reasons I can't ever hope to fully understand. Do I need it?

posted by Jeff @ 11:11 AM 2 comments