Gaming for fines

The Shifted Librarian reports on a teen librarian who keeps DDR set up all the time, and will allow patrons to challenge her in an attempt to get their fines waived. :-)

Posted by Garrett on November 21st, 2007 in Books, Gaming, Humor | No Comments

Ok, this is terrifying…

After what I’ve seen happen to Sesame Street, I don’t know if I trust Sesame Workshop to resurrect The Electric Company. (h/t The Shifted Librarian)

Posted by Garrett on November 21st, 2007 in TV | No Comments

New permalink structure

One of the things I was looking forward to when moving webhosts was Apache’s mod_rewrite module, which just allowed me to flip from using URLs with the post number in them to ones with the date and post title in them. Much more convenient. :-)

So far, everything’s been pretty smooth. I’m currently working on switching my main site from FrontPage to Drupal. I found a nice theme for it: I just have to finish moving the content over, and cleaning up non-working code. :-)

Posted by Garrett on November 21st, 2007 in Meta | 4 Comments

Which ’80s scientist are you?

Your Score: Ray Stantz

160 Heart, 166 Genius, 119 Cool, 147 Excitability

Dr. Raymond Stantz - (Dan Aykroyd)
Ghostbusters (1984)

You are Ray Stantz! The heart of the Ghostbusters. You’re well-meaning, smart, and you have a childlike sense of wonder about the world. You might get taken advantage of, every once in a while, but it’s okay… You’re doing your part to help save the world.

“Gozer the Gozerian… good evening. As a duly designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the nearest convenient parallel dimension.”

Other scientific possibilities:

Link: The Which 80s Movie Scientist Test written by xxyl on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test