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I knew about the Wookieepedia, but as we were re-watching some fine quality Buffy season 4 last night, I found myself googling for Wiccapedia. Sadly, the site seems to have gone defunct -- that link goes to the Internet Wayback Machine's archive of the page.
Of course, then there's also Wackypedia and Wickedpedia.
So yesterday, my shower wasn't hot -- it was lukewarm. Lukewarm, verging towards tepid in short order. This made me sad, since it was a Saturday, a challenging day to get a plumber to come out and... fix whatever the hell it is.
So, I went back to basics and put the problem off. I accomplished this successfully for several hours, but eventually I figured I should at least look at the hot water heater and make sure it isn't spewing water everywhere. First I stalked around the house, trying to figure out if I heard any water noises, but nuthin'. So I clamber up into the attic, and peer at the thing. No water in the splash pan. No sparks or explosions or banging noises. The heater feels warm to the touch. No gas smell. Burrrrr?
The obvious answer is that the pilot light is out, but my eyes start to glaze over as I read the instructions. Physical maintenance on a house appliance? Dude, that's not how I roll.
This morning's cold shower convinced it was time to at least give it the old college try. Once again, I clamber upstairs. I follow the extremely prominently placed instructions to the letter. And by gum, if I don't relight the pilot light, and totally fail to explode in a Tyler Durdenesque blaze of glory. Fifteen minutes later: HOT WATER.
Hey -- this stuff is easy! Who knew? My world view is shattered.
The blog of the Texas National Organization of Women (NOW) is now live. This has been the sekrit project of my lovely wife Carrie for quite some time now, so I encourage you to check it out!
Second Life has too many servers, in danger of eating Internet (Broken Toys.)
The "3 users per server" bit is particularly surprising. It sounds, though, like that's comparing apples and oranges. The servers are responsible for bits of land, which -- in SL -- can be pretty complicated beasts. Since the game now charges for land use, not for character use, it actually makes some kind of sense to have your servers scale with land. It's the actual revenue stream, after all.
Still -- 2,579 servers seems crazy big for an environment that's still essentially a novelty until it gets a substantial UI revamp.
Lately, I've noticed the very tip of my head gets cold. T_T
That's about it.
Maybe I need to start wearing a little cap, like in Firefly.
Holy crap. Now I really have to see this movie.
My favorite part is where the directors talk about how Keynote handles HD out of the box, and all the expensive custom video solutions don't.