Homestar goodness

I got World of Warcraft working in Ubuntu via Wine *GASP*

Cut for all of those Davy Jones lovers who haven’t seen the flick yet

“Let’s look death in the face and say, ‘whatever, man'”

Wow!!

The Sarah Connor Chronicles

So, hapflygirl, rynnweber, countzero2k7 and I went to a Renn Faire yesterday in Tennessee. It was absolutely and totally awesome. It was the first full-sized one I had been to. It was more than I would’ve ever imagined. The big plus about SciFi conventions in comparison, though, is that at least you’re inside and away from that sweltering and melanoma-izing sun. A great time was had by all, me thinks.

I think my favorite parts were the human chess game and the jousting. I definitely recommend it, to anyone who is ever in the area in the few weeks before and during Memorial Day.

Obligatory pics

UGH!!!

So, I was looking in my handy dandy starcharts, trying to find Gliese 581. I had the RA/DE coordinates, but I couldn’t find the star in Burnham’s Celestial Handbook. I found stars that were close to the coordinates, but certainly not exact. Stellarium is just frickin’ awesome. It’s a planetarium/star chart program written by *GASP* the French! Who knew they’d be able to chug out something cool and useful like this? 🙂

Anyway, I found Gliese 581. It was actually designated HP 74995, which I was able to cross-reference via Wiki. It’s in Libra, just beside the star that represents the top side of the scale.

I’d definitely vote for him.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/column.aspx?UrlTitle=an_open_letter_to_the_republican_presidential_candidates&ns=MichaelSteele&dt=05/11/2007&page=full&comments=true