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What was wrong with DoubleSec that they had to come up with TripleSec?

Season's dead, friendships still there

Commiserating with fellow fans after the team was mathematically eliminated at the stadium club last night during the last couple innings was both painful and helpful. Talked turned to off season gatherings and e-mails and phone numbers were passed around. Sounds like a fun off season in the making. Well after the game, we were getting kicked out of the club and said our goodbyes. I noticed a group of twenty somethings going down the ramp ahead of me. They were moving slow since one of them was hopping on one foot. As I passed one of the girls asked, 'can my friend ride to the car over there on your back?' Amazingly I answered 'absolutely' and kept on walking. Three strides later, there is a leap onto my back and just as amazingly I did not stumble but proceeded to clamp my hands behind her knees and kept walking to where the first one pointed. The things a greybeard has to put up with now and then. About twenty yards through the parking lot, she exclaims that she can walk now. Then repeats it a few seconds later. I let go, she slips off, we wave and I walk towards the mini, remotely lowering the top. Motoring away, I just grinned and waved again as they piled into their sedan. Go home, Proto.

Rec-Re-Ate

Dodgers are back in town for one last week. I've got the tickets, might as well go...

Cheap Web Hosting

So, I went with a cheap hosting service just to see how it would be. I must admit, that I like it a lot. To create the forms I need for my players, I've had to learn a little PHP scripting over the last week or so, but there are hundreds of good tutorials on the internet, and an online manual at php.net. So http://calmdragon.net/games/ is where I've been hanging my hat. Maybe I'll have my forms working the way I want them to in another week or two.

30 years of DnD April Fool Bestiary

Jared von Hindeman came up with a list of thirty years of stupid monsters from April editions of Dungeon magazine etc. http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article73.htm for a very weird trip down a forgotten dicey path. I think I still have some paper and pencils around somewhere with a character's statistics et al.

Does this disturb you?

I find it weird that there is a hexagon shape encircling the north pole of Saturn.

Thanks Dodgers

With four straight loses to the Colorado Rockies, and thereby moving into fourth place, the chances of post season play are nil. This weekend in Arizona should cement the deal. Six more home games next Tuesday through Sunday the thirtieth. Want to go with?

Da Tour

Click here and then on the Alyssa Milano Tab to see a tour of Dodger Stadium.

Blech

Stayed home ill after the tummy turned this morning. Fall weather has hit which would normally be a good thing, but my stomach thought otherwise today. Started to feel better this afternoon after fluids and toast stayed down, so I get online and start boring myself with DSL speed tests. Went to a number of different sites after a google search. Did not realize you had to be in a specific country to do some tests. Fortunately most were in the USA. Here are the results:

From http://www.dslreports.com/stest
Flash Test:


Java Test:


and:


and:
:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 345 Kbps about 0.35 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Download Speed is:: 42 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 209 Kbps about 0.2 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 26 kB/s
Test Time:: 2007/09/19 - 3:17pm
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7 [!]


Cute, nice to know I'm getting the cheap service I'm paying for. Maybe now I'll upgrade my audio drivers like the 'are you ready for vista' test said I should.