I started playing around with GoogleEarth during one of my procrastination moments and labeled a bunch of stuff around work. Check it out.
It’s kinda cool. I can see myself wasting entirely too much time messing around with GoogleEarth.
How badly can you hurt him?
Stair Dismount (Porrasturvat) was a cheesy fun little game I found a few years ago. The premise is simple. Select an impact point on the dummy’s body, click at the desired impact power level and watch it fall down the stairs. See how much damage you can dish out to the dummy.
Another variant, Truck Dismount (Rekkaturvat) puts the dummy in a truck with positionable ramps and 6 different dummy locations. Some of the hits the dummy takes make me wince.
I’m not sure why I find it so amusing. Maybe it’s a strange fascination to push stuff down stairs and watch it tumble. Maybe it’s watching the dummy’s head pop up when you hit it right, or the contortions it goes through as it falls. Could be the cheesy porn movie music, or the sound effects with each impact. Whatever it is, there’s usually something that makes me chuckle.
Word of the day
Pronunciation: k&r-‘f&-f&l
Function: noun
Etymology: alteration of carfuffle, from Scots car- (probably from Scottish Gaelic cearr wrong, awkward) + fuffle to become disheveled
There seems to be a lot of it going on today.
Philippe in the Atlantic, Rita Gulf-bound
8 hurricanes so far, a little over 2 months left in the season, and soon we might see Rita become the 9th hurricane.
Fortunately for us, neither of them look like they will bother us. Folks in the Gulf probably won’t be pleased to see Rita heading there in a few days time though. Forecast has it possibly becoming a Cat 3 hurricane towards the end of the week.
No rest for the storm weary
Well, with Ophelia finally out of the way, there’s now Philippe, which came while I was out running errands this afternoon, and TD 18, which in all likelihood will become Rita in a day or so.
If Philippe stays on its current track, it probably won’t be a bother to us. It does have plenty of juicy warm water to travel over before reaching striking \distance, so it could become another big storm. TD 18 looks to be headed into the Gulf, which could be a concern to people trying to recover from Katrina. More weather to keep an eye on.
If TD 18 does become Rita, then there will be 4 names left on the list before having to resort to the Greek alphabet.