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Sunday – 14 June 2009
This weekend, I have (re)discovered something wonderful about saying (or at least “thinking loudly”) “I don’t feel like getting up yet…” on my days off. I’ve managed not to get out of bed as soon as I wake up. This is a good thing as Friday, Saturday and this morning, I was awake between 0630 and 0705. Without an alarm. This comes under the heading of a “good thing.”

I finally got the pictures from Ogden Union Station posted. I’m not entirely sure why iWeb wouldn’t let me post pages with similar – yet different – names, but it didn’t. So, I had to get a little creative. This workaround seems to work. Something that I didn’t consider – mainly because it was almost 0200 when I was trying to get the pictures posted – was to simply publish the pages to folders and upload the folders. (It’s amazing what a good night’s sleep and distance from the problem will do for mental acuity.) If I run into this situation again, I’ll have to keep that in mind.

Stray Toasters

• Seven Civil War Stories your teacher never told you
• It has rained, to some degree, every day for the past eight (8) days. This fact is made even more peculiar/amusing in that we are on a high desert plain. The operative word being: “Desert.” If it keeps up much longer, I’m going to start drafting plans for an ark. My mission: Save two of each kind of toy.
• The Rise and Fall of Motion Control for Games
• Speaking of games: I’ve finally given my XBox 360 a permanent connection to the Interwebs; my gamer tag is: shadorunr. If you’re a XBox Live player, feel free to add me.
• Director Guillermo Del Toro Is a Novelist, Too
• While I’m not a big fan of Twitter, I found this blending of old and new technology amusing: A Twitter Client for the Commodore 64
• Actor Phil Morris Always Seems to Get the Cool Parts
• Vincent Moore raises the question: “Where are the Black Supervillains?” (1, 2)
• From the “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” file: Bulletproof “tactical” corset

Methinks it’s time to find something to do in the sunshine. Throwing the Aerobie around  sounds like a good idea.

Namaste.