InfoCom Games Remember the old text based Infocom games like Zork? Chris and I were talking during lunch today about how great the old text based games were. Neither of us like the “twitchy” type games all that much. I (currently pretty infrequently) play an online game called Ultima Online (UO). The game is 9 …
Yearly Archives: 2007
Chili Cookoff
It is 73 degrees here in sunny south Florida. I am at the Chili Cookoff. Bikini tops and Daisy-Dukes everywhere. Half of them even have yellow armbands.Today’s entertainment is Taylor Swift who just got off the stage, Montgomery Gentry, Trace Adkins, Sugarland, Jo Dee Messina, Darryl Worley who just got on stage, and Jernie.Good weather, …
Beached Jellyfish
I went for a walk tonight while I was waiting for my potatoes to cook for my Pork Roast. I saw a lot of these blue colored floating jellyfish. There where many dozens of them along the couple of mile section of beach I walked. I did a pretty good job avoiding them, I only …
Random Pork Roast. I needed to clean out some veggies I had laying around before they finished going bad. Grape tomatoes, a bell pepper, shredded carrots. Into the crockpot goes a bottle of beer that Katie hasn’t drank yet, a can of low sodium beef broth, half a container of grape tomatoes, and a bag …
Video: How Dogs Became Man’s Best Friend
National Geographic News has an interesting Video Clip on why dogs may have become “Man’s Best Friend”. The point of the movie is that dogs have learned to interpret human’s gestures. I remember hunting with my dad once with his hunting dog, and he was able to direct her to go into a particular clump …