2008

New Years in Europe – planning stages

Tara and I are figuring out our European travel plans for the end of this year and beginning of next. I’ve put up rough plans on my wiki but basically we’re flying in and out of London, and aiming to hit Brussels, Amsterdam, Berlin and Paris in the meantime. We’ll be in Berlin for New Years.

Like most of my trips to Europe, we’re aiming to figure a lot of it out once we get there. That said anyone in the above cities who wants to get together, or has a guest bed (or large couch) they want to offer up for a night or two please let me know. I think we’re only going to be in Brussels and Amsterdam for a day or two each, where as Berlin, Paris and London will probably be a little longer. Check the wiki for the days we’re thinking about.

It’s kind of funny to think that a year ago I’d never been to Berlin, but this trip will mark my fourth time there. I’m also really excited to go to Paris with someone else and have a few days to see it. We’re definitely looking for any tips or suggestions. Thanks!

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Zombie Weapon FAIL!

There’s a post over on Gizmodo calling this AR15 modified to old a chainsaw as a bayonet “the ultimate zombie killing weapon.” It’s not, and actually it might be the worst most amature option out there. Let’e quickly review the reasons arming yourself with this during a zombie attack will lead straight to your demise:

  1. Requires ammo. This means that you will need to both reload as look for reserves. Reloading will mostly likely be required when it’s not convenient and eventually you will run out of ammo, making this useless.
  2. Requires gasoline. Presumably the chainsaw is gas powered and suffers from the same issues as ammo, it will run out, and will do that when you most need it leaving you helpless.
  3. Heavy as crap. Can you imagine how tiring carrying this around all day would be? I mean, look at the video, the dude almost drops it chopping off his foot after using it for just a few seconds. When faced with a zombie mob, you need to be agile and on your toes. This will leave you exhausted and clumsy.
  4. Noise attracts zombies and you know this thing is loud. So in addition to being bad at killing zombies for more than a few minutes, and leaving you tired from trying, this will alert other zombies to your whereabouts bringing them down on you in packs.

Clearly this is a poor zombie killing weapon. What a noob.

Facebook friend requests reset

Just logged into facebook and was greeted with approx 150 friend requests which was just too much to deal with so I blanket ignored all of them. If I do I actually know you and you sent a request recently please resend it and I’ll try to be more on top of it. I’m kinda weird about it though and for the most part I try to only be “friends” with people I’m actually friends with, and generally won’t approve someone I’ve never met or talked to just because we have X number of mutual friends. That said, if we are working on similar stuff or interests, just include a note with the request that that will help a lot. Also, just a heads up in efforts to get more use out of the site I will probably be trimming down folks who I don’t know that well who flood me with invites to events (especially ones in cities I’m not in) or groups. Please don’t take this personally, it’s really just trying to get a better grasp on the signal to noise.