As I mentioned last year, Oklahoma City has multiple spraygrounds available for kids. They open Memorial Day Weekend and close Labor Day Weekend, and are free.
My only advice before attending the spraygrounds is to drive by and see what kind of people are hanging around in and around the park before you go. The one off of Melrose, unfortunately,… read entire post
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Death Comes in Threes: The Metal Edition
Over the past month and a half, the world of heavy metal has lost three musicians: rock legend Ronnie James Dio, Type-O-Negative frontman Peter Steele, and Slipknot bassist Paul Gray.
I can’t honestly say I was a huge Ronnie James Dio fan, and while I’ve always enjoyed his radio hits (“Holy Diver” and “Rainbow in the Dark”), I never delved… read entire post
Facebook Privacy Issues? Blame Yourself.
The primary reason we put information into computers is to retrieve that same information at a later date. Sure, the computer might process or modify our input, and we may apply locks and roadblocks in an attempt (ho ho) to prevent others from accessing it, but if you think about it, the main reason we save things like pictures and… read entire post
The Empire Strikes Pac-Man
This weekend marked the thirtieth anniversary of both The Empire Strikes Back, and Pac-Man. I don’t know if there’s any significance to a thirtieth anniversary, but it does give me a quick opportunity to talk about two things that impacted my life.
I, along with millions of other kids across the world, became enamored with Star Wars at an early… read entire post
Just About Done!
Finished all my work in Chicago earlier today. This week I performed multiple wireless, security, and compliancy scans for a client in downtown Chicago, and stayed in a hotel right downtown. The hotel room was small. I mean, really small. You can tell a hotel room is small when the hotel utilizes some of the same furniture and design tricks… read entire post
Atari 2600 Cake
In case you didn’t see this on Facebook over the weekend …
This past Saturday the fam and I drove to Dallas to attend a friend’s wedding. My friend Darren is a big — no, huge — video game collector. His collection blows mins away, not only in volume, but in value.
Here is a picture I took of Darren’s… read entire post
Duckosaurus
Last Friday, Morgan’s pre-k class (along with the kindergarten kids) did a short musical about dinosaurs. Morgan told us she was going to be a dinosaur but we didn’t know what kind (my money was on a meat eater). Based on the hats, I think they were supposed to be ducks or something. It was still cute and all. I… read entire post
Nintendo Wii Won’t Get Fooled Again
Yet another case of consumers getting screwed.
This week, Nintendo released a new version of the Nintendo Wii. It’s just like the old Nintendo Wii, except it’s black. Apparently, that’s enough to get lots of Wii owners excited enough to buy a new one.
The Nintendo Wii includes a Virtual Console. Games for the Virtual Console are purchased online and… read entire post
April Showers bring May Tornadoes
People who don’t live in tornado alley often ask me, “How much warning do you get before a tornado arrives?” In this case, it was around 24 hours. On the Sunday evening news, we were warned of possible tornadoes Monday evening. That doesn’t mean there’s much you can do about it (other than not be home when it hits), but… read entire post
Episode 110 of YDKF Online
Episode 110 of You Don’t Know Flack (“Floppy Disks”) is now online. Don’t forget that the podcast has moved to podcast.robohara.com and that the RSS feed has changed to http://podcast.robohara.com/?feed=rss2. Want to comment on the podcast? Come join us!… read entire post