On the up side...

Also, thought this was funny:

Only nerds...

Only on Slashdot would you find a calculation on how long it would lake the BP oil leak to fill a volume equal to the estimated volume of the entire library of congress book collection:

Well, lets see...

The Library of Congress contains roughly 1,199 kilometers of books. Assume that each shelf is roughly 30cm by 30cm, you get a volume of roughly 107,910 m3. To fill that volume with barrels of oil...

A barrel of oil is 42 US Gallons, or 0.158987294928 m3. So, you need 6.29 barrels to get 1 m3.

So we should need about 678,753 barrels of oil to constitute one library of congress.

So, at a rate of 4 barrels per second, there is a library of congress worth of oil being dumped into the Gulf about every 47 hours.

Also, Ry, the Transformer get up is pretty hilarious.

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LET THE ROUGE TRADING CONTINUE!

All righty, we've got character classes sorted! No serious dupes or conflicts so it looks like the crew stands as follows:

ROGUE TRADER: Rudy. All hail the Lord-Captain! All hail profit and fame!
SENESCHAL: Denis, the sneaky bastard.
NAVIGATOR: Surely Myke shall guide everyone through the terrors of the Immaterium. Please ignore his hideously mutated corpus.
ASTROPATH TRANSCENDENT: Blackheart's psychic signals shall echo across the universe.
ARCH-MILITANT: Aeryk's weapon arm will render into bloody gibbets those who oppose your bloody path.
EXPLORATOR: Enron, made of meat and mechanics. He will appease the machine-spirits.

Next step is super easy (attribute generation). Grab your d10s!

More than meets the eye.

Portal is free till the 24th on Steam! I think it's publicity for Portal 2 AND for Steam now being on Mac and all the games working on both systems. So, having only played the 360 version, I'm totally stoked! That's pretty boss.

http://store.steampowered.com/freeportal/

Edit: Yeah, they confirmed it's yours to keep forever, just have to download it before the 24th. Sweet deal.

Sorry to hear about the jorb. Sucks.

Regrettably, I do not posses said Malifaux. I've looked at it, but have yet to pull the trigger. Don't know if I can get an order delivered before the con. Might be a challenge... hmmm...

I would like to pick the rogue trader, if that is ok thank you very much. I believe I will lead our ship to many victories and so on and so forth. If you are not to feel that is appropo, then I will accept a differnt position such as Senschal or even perhaps some may say, and lastly I would have to say, I would be a navigator, no disrespect.

Rouge Traitor!!

All of you that'll be at Kubla -- I'm really fired up about Rogue Trader! I think the more setup we can do before the con, the better, because character creation is pretty involved (but fortunately, pretty fun). I sent out a Google spreadsheet invite to a doc that contains a brief, "good enough for the con" description of all the classes available in the game. If you guys can read through it and put an X by the classes you're interested in then we can figure out who is playing what.

If more than one person is super excited about a particular class then it's OK to double up on certain classes. The only real requirement/restriction is that there should be one (only one) Rogue Trader. This is the guy who is the Lord-Captain of the ship. The two psychic classes and the cyborg class are a little more complex. If anyone wants to play those classes it would really help if those players do a little background reading.

After we've got that sorted, the next step will be to generate everybody's Origin Path -- this determines a bunch of your starting abilities beyond what your class gives you, and also a lot about your character's history.

Malifaux
Denis -- which of the Malifaux starters do you have? Build 'em, paint 'em and bring 'em to Kubla! After I got laid off I did some drunk purchasing and picked up the Lilith and Rasputina starters. It looks pretty fun game, sorta Doomtown the skirmish game.

Movies!

Iron Man 2 was okay. Not horrible but not something I'd ever want to see again. I didn't like the first one very much either, and this I'd say left the exact same feeling. Just "okay." If you see it, stay till after the credits for a hint at some other awful Marvel movie which I think sounds hilarious and can't imagine them pulling off.

Also just finished District 9 finally. It was really good. Good sci-fi always provokes crazy emotions, and this one most definitely did.

Lastly, watched Year One. It reviewed horribly, but I still had faith that Harold Ramis and tons of funny comedians could pull it off. It was just pretty mediocre but not the worst film I've ever seen. With all the crazy talent involved, it should have been a billion times better, but it's still more watchable than most bad comedies.