Empire’s 20th Anniversary/Birthday gallery has shots of stars recreating some of their most memorable roles.
For example:
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Photo: Sarah Dunn) from Empire Online
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Found at http://thechive.com/
who needs a Ninja Assasin when you have Lumberjack Commandos?
Finally, I got a chance to work on my NAS build, since I’ve been on vacation for all of last week. The goal I was shooting for was to build at least 4TB of RAID 5 storage, with at least a gigabit network connection. Since I already have a 2 TB IDE-based NAS built on a Poweredge 2400 platform, and since I have a bunch of PE 2400 sitting around, I decided to go ahead and build another NAS out of one of them.
The Poweredge 2400 has several nice features Read More »
Yikes. I really really seem to have an Ebay buying addiction. Sigh. I could try to rationalize it, but I’m sure there isn’t really a rational reason. I just like to find things and buy them. Oh well, moving on to the actual post…
So, I decide that I wanted some books for my birthday this year. I forget at this point what actually triggered it, though I do know I ended up with a set of Will and Ariel Durant‘s “The Story of Civilization” and Matthew Henry‘s Commentary on the Bible. Very nice books, and quite glad to have them. The next purchase was a set of 64 books from Read More »
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I was searching for something to write and decided the only thing of interest I really did tonight was try the Madras Lentils (lentils, red beans and spices in a creamy tomato sauce) I got at Costco last week. The box had 4 smaller boxes, which they called an entree size, and I think it ran about $7. So, I grabbed one out of the box since the wife decided she was skipping dinner, and I was hungry. I was surprised that it was fully ready to eat, though if I had read the box better, I’d have known that 
. It’s all natural, vegetarian, gluten free, contains no MSG or preservatives, and is kosher.
It came in a foil pouch, which of course means no microwaving in the pouch. It took about 2 minutes to fully heat it in a glass bowl slightly larger than the portion. It reminded me of a chili more than anything else. I can see this as a good vegetarian option for chili, with a few additional spices (and/or hot sauce), nacho topping or even hot dog topping!
I will have to try and reproduce this soon, because it would make a good alternative for my other Lentil Chili, with a few modifications.
I decided I would post this paper, from February 2007, since I can never seem to find it when I am looking for it. Of course, at the time I wrote it, I thought I was pretty clever. Now in re-reading parts of it, I realize I must have grown as a writer as I inwardly cringe. Still, the data is valid, and it does make an interesting read (at least in my opinion). Read More »
I’d never heard of Shopsin’s General Store before, nor had I heard of Kenny Shopsin, but someone, somewhere in cyberspace recommended “Eat Me: The Food and Philosophy of Kenny Shopsin” on last Tuesday (I know because that is the day I ordered it along with “A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zinn, recommended by @EthanSuplee). I suspect it was someone on Twitter, but since I can’t find it(search sucks for posts older than a few hours), I don’t recall. So, if you recommended the book on Twitter, thanks.
I had lived in New York, though not Read More »
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Saw Star Trek tonight. I’m not disappointed because I made sure and kept my hopes low. It wasn’t a BAD movie. It wasn’t a great movie. It was more firmly in the good category, but certainly not quite reaching the status of good. Here’s my “review”. WARNING: SPOILERS.
- Ok, so what’s with Romulans being the enemy? Read More »
I’ve decided to build my new NAS on one of my PowerEdge 2400 boxes I have sitting here. I’ve got a Dual PIII 866 with 2Gb ram, GigE, and room for 6 hard drives in the cage, and up to 3 5 1/4 devices (I will leave the SCSI CD-Rom, and add at least 1 IDE DVD Burner). To this I will add at least 1 4 port SATA 300 RAID controller and 4 1.5TB Seagate drives. I plan on configuring the RAID to RAID 5. The debate now is FreeNAS vs. NASLite vs. OpenFiler. I’m currently leaning towards FreeNAS. What is your favorite?
Plant a tree
