I have absolutely no reservation about changing your anchor links, SEM/SEO Guys. You have been warned.

Note: Hover over questions to reveal them.

$100:

The answer: This ‘true silver’ gets its name from the Sindiarin words for “gray” and “glitter.”

The question: What is Mithril?

$200:

The answer: The discovery of this substance was memorialized in stained glass window in the meeting room of the Unseen University College Council.

The question: What is Slood?

$300:

The answer: You might be tempted to think that the Vibranium used to make Captain America’s shield originated in this fictional country in Africa, but it didn’t. Cap’s Vibranium was made from Anti-Metal found Antarctica.

The Question: What is Wakanda?

$400:

The answer: This metal, from which the robot, “Fender” is allegedly made, is yellow and is said to taste like chicken.

The question: What is afraidium

$500:

The answer: Although this metal does exist, the fiction is that it was sold as part of a 1970’s initiative that aimed to flush out would-be nuclear smugglers.

The question: What is redmercuriciodide or Red Mercury.

With limited dalliances in Windows and Linux, I have always used a Mac.
Not because it was faster, easier, or smarter. But because I have.

Rest in Peace, Steve.

Sophie-Oakie's 3rd Auspicious Buddha Baby Melvin
Sept. 19, 1999 - July 27, 2011

If you are talking about your concern over nuclear fall out from Japan on your cell phone you are doing it wrong.

Bernard Yu gave this energetic talk at BarcampMilwaukee5 on Saturday, Oct. 2.

Remember when we designed for 760 pixels? Remember the great time we had when we moved up to 960 pixels? Whatâs next? Everything. And itâs gonna be frigginâ awesome.

This session is going to be on the importance of good typography and how CSS3, media queries, and real fonts for the web can get us get there. Itâll cover three of the four biggest things that happened in web design in the last year: CSS3, web fonts, and the unprecedented growth in mobile browsing.

Audio was taken by the Zoom Handy Recorder H2 in Session Room 1 at Bucketworks. I trimmed, normalized and compressed it, then uploaded it to the mighty Archive.org. You can also download an MP3 file if you’d like. (And for our freedom loving friends, enjoy an Ogg file.)

I'll be posting more recordings from BarcampMilwaukee5 as I get time to upload them.

Entreprenuer and open space evangelist Bob Waldron gave a session at BarcampMilwaukee5 about creating sustainable communities at BarCampMilwaukee5 on October 2, 2010. Says Bob, developing new and exciting communities is well and good, but the successful communities are the ones that make an effort to achieve sustainability.

“Out of 100 people, one person is going to make something happen; about nine of them will help out, and the other 90 will participate, but are not going to make it a success.”

Audio was taken by the Zoom Handy Recorder H2 in Session Room 1 at Bucketworks. I trimmed, normalized and compressed it, then uploaded it to the mighty Archive.org.. You can also download an MP3 file if you’d like. (And for our freedom loving friends, enjoy an Ogg file.)

I'll be posting more recordings from BarcampMilwaukee5 as I get time to upload them.

One of the most embarrassing things I do is sing little songs about my animals when I'm doing their chores. This one came out today when I was filling the Guinea Pigs up with pellets, water and hay. The Pig I was singing to is named Moose.

Moose the Moose is on the mend.
from a bad fight that he had with his friend.
He said, "Look here moose, I don't give a heck."
And he left him lying there with a bloody neck."

And that's a true story.

Rest, Lake.

Let your head relax and dip beneath the surface. You hear only the sound of your own breathing and every song of joy ever sung. She is all around you, cradling you in her wake, washing you with her light, and refilling your heart. Your eternity with her is too, too short.

This is, far and away, the funniest thing I will ever write on Facebook. It seemed a shame to leave it behind that walled garden. And so I'm posting it here.

Far and away. Far and away.