CSI: Miami Drinking Game

Jen suggested we take a long vacation weekend specifically so we could stay in somewhere and get shitfaced playing the CSI: Miami Drinking Game. I think we’d be housed before the first commercial break.

Skip “V”.

I added Wim Wenders to the Alphabet Project today, after a three-week absence brought on by activity and paying work. There is a “V” in the works, but I decided that adding something was better than nothing.

Heat’s Back.

Yeah, the indian summer here in Baltymore is over. We’re now back to the low 90′s with typical Maryland humidity, which is to say, wet like a sponge. The beginning of June was idyllic, and I only wish I’d gotten out and taken more advantage of it. This weekend saw the long-awaited continuation of 2004′s outdoor projects—I finished reglazing the living room windows and replaced the storms. I cut in the rest of the siding on the South and West sides of the house, as well as scraped and painted a ton of exposed wood on the porch. By the time 5:30 rolled around, I was hot, tired, and ready for November.

I intended to get the first rain barrel installed in the southeast corner of the house today, but gave up on that pretty quickly after 5PM. The trick is to elevate the barrel so that gravity will do the work of irrigation for us, which means building a platform to put it on, diverting the gutter around a corner and into the top of the barrel (literally, a square peg in a round hole) and fitting an overflow valve. The hardest part will be the gutter portion, based on what I’ve found at the various Home Superstores around town, because there isn’t anything made for this particular application—which means I’m going to have to get creative with PVC and flexible tubing. Then again, I could just buy this peculiar-looking contraption, or perhaps this even stranger-looking thing.I think I’m going to look some more at Lowe’s first, because neither of these things allow for getting around a corner.

Ten Commandments.

Ten good reasons to keep religion out of politics. Because we elect assholes like this, who are dumber than a box of hammers. Perhaps you should spend a little more time reading your Bible and understanding it instead of trying to ram it down our throats, Congressman. (For the record, I had a brainfart and forgot Kill and Adultery, of all things, but I remembered the other eight. I’m a heathen.) (Youtube link)

Ten Commandments.

Ten good reasons to keep religion out of politics. Because we elect assholes like this, who are dumber than a box of hammers. Perhaps you should spend a little more time reading your Bible and understanding it instead of trying to ram it down our throats, Congressman. (For the record, I had a brainfart and forgot Kill and Adultery, of all things, but I remembered the other eight. I’m a heathen.) (Youtube link)

So Dangerous. So Very Fucking Dangerous.

I found this comparison of 14 flux core MIG welders via the MAKE: blog this afternoon, and it’s like an answer to my prayers. I’ve always wanted to weld some more—my experience was limited to some very basic lessons taught by my roommate Pat after hours in the sculpture lab at MICA—and there are many things I’d like to be able to do/build/fabricate given the time, money and equipment. Besides, I think real men should know how to weld. Meanwhile, the site is now in my permanent RSS feed. Any site that recommends a pocket knife as a Father’s Day gift is OK with me.

Blog Post Frequency Doesn’t Matter

According to Technorati, only 55% of bloggers post after 3 months of existence. Huh. I’ve been doing this since 2001, give or take a month or two. I do agree with the point about quality vs. quantity, but I also have to admit this blog’s purpose is as much to unclutter my brain as it is for anybody else to read. (ups to Mike)

Search Template Fixed.

Huh. I just noticed the search template here on Idiotking was completely hosed. It’s fixed now. Sheesh, you’d think I did this for a living or something.

iCal publishing, take 72

Publish calendars without .Mac in iCal. I haven’t tried this particular solution, but I’d wager it works. I’d rather have webDAV working on a local server here at the office, but I’ve never had luck getting it to work. Not for lack of trying, though. This could be cool, if it works.

Are You Looking At My Bum?

Repair work completed. Looks pretty good, compared to this: