And To All A Good Night!

I was going to write a long and meaningful post tonight about Christmas, but I think this sums it up.

One Way to Get the Point Across

I love hearing stuff like this.

The Colombian army says it has installed a giant Christmas tree in FARC rebel territory, to encourage guerrilla fighters to demobilize.

Special forces infiltrated the remote Macarena mountain range to dress a 25m (82ft) high tree with 2,000 lights.

Movement sensors will make the tree light up when guerrillas approach.

The army says it will put up trees in nine other rebel-held zones to spread the message that Christmas is a good time to abandon armed struggle…

As well as lights, it was decorated with slogans saying "Demobilize, at Christmas everything is possible" and "If Christmas can come to the jungle, you can come home".

Source: BBC

Call of Duty In Real Life

This is utterly perfect in every way.

Where's Your Global Warming Now?

Snowpocalypse 2010. It's here.

 

How True

That's about right.

A Change Of Pace or The Night Away

We needed a change of pace tonight, and luckily, the in-laws needed someone to house-sit. Talk about a happy congruence of events. The kids stayed up a wee bit later than I'd hoped, and my wife crashed out on the delightfully cushy couch I'd planned to call home for the next several hours, but I've got dead quiet and tranquility and that's all I could really ask for right now.

One drawback: the 1880s farm house we're staying in is sorely lacking in its ability to retain heat, and thus, I'm frozen. My toes stopped responding to signals from my brain almost an hour ago. I'm hoping the cat will soon come over and curl up on my feet, to be honest. Instead, he'd rather prowl around on the desk occasionally blocking my view and threatening to knock my precious Boylan's root beer on the floor. Which, I suppose brings up an interesting question. Why am I drinking an ice-cold drink when I'm colder than the arctic ice pack?

Where's global warming when you need it?

In any event, I'm thankful that tonight, the four of us can be just the four of us.

Dealing with Campers in Black Ops

This is how it’s done.