Life and stuff

Sunset at Edwards Air Force base after the air show:

So I almost squished a jackrabbit on the road today.  The little critter was waiting by the road, staring me down as I was leaving Mojave airport.  50, 40, 30 feet away, just sitting on its haunches looking straight at my car.  I get to about 20 feet away, and it starts hopping directly into my path.  Its almost like it timed it just right to commit suicide!  SCREEEEECH!  I hit the brakes, and narrowly miss its tail with my left wheel.

One of these days, they’re not going to be so lucky :\

If you’re having a bad day, reading about this guy should make you feel a teensy bit better.

So according to the Death by Caffeine page, it’d take about 281 cans of Coke or 119 cans of Red Bull to do me in. I thought Jolt Cola would take the prize, since it beat out Red Bull (119 cans < 67 cans), but thats not even in the same league as a Starbucks Grande coffee. The dosage to kill lil 'ol me? Only a bit over 25 cups.

The Death by Penguin Mints page is equally amusing. I’d have to chug 9555 Hershey’s Kisses before the reaper comes to greet me.

For the Mac-head concert-goers out there, OnTour is a pretty neat dashboard widget.  It scans your iTunes library and displays when they are going to perform:

And the photo-geeks (like me) can have some fun with FxIF to view the EXIF info in JPEGs in Mozilla Firefox / Seamonkey.