The future is now.

Boston Dynamics' Big Dog... forgive me if I'm the last to know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww

That is astonishing, disturbing, amazing and downright creepy. And miraculous. I especially loved when the guy tries to shove it over, and watched it recover itself.

This took my breath away.

The Nice Place

As Sleepy John said, "We cannot hear the collective!". We need a place to stay in touch. The Foxaroo urged the creation of such an emergency gathering spot, so I have taken the initiative to create one.

Come to http://theniceplace.livejournal.com.

And get out there and spread the word to all you know, before we all go stark raving nuts.

-The Old Wolf

No, it didn't

I dug out this sig that appeared on someone's emails back in around 1992 and applied it to my theme:

O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O
THIS EMAIL MOVED STICKY BLACK FILTH FROM THE BOWELS
OF THE EARTH, AND SET IT ON FIRE IN YOUR AIR
O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O O=c=O

And then I remembered... I signed up for the blue sky program years ago when it first became available in our area.

Naturally I can't speak for all the electricity running all the servers between me and you, but I feel comfortable having replaced it with this:

  This journal entry brought to you by 100% clean renewable wind power.

Doing all I can to reduce my carbon footprint...

The Nice Place converted to a Community

Thanks to Den for catching this right at the beginning. I had to delete my first post, along with the few comments that had been made, but it's now a public community open to all members. I had never messed with the community option before, so I had to go do a bit of research to find out how to convert a journal to a community. Not too hard when there's only one comment.