Neptune, all night
25 years ago tonight, Voyager 2 made its closest pass by Neptune, zipping over the cloudtops at Neptune’s north pole at a distance of barely 17,000 miles. That’s a close shave by space probe standards. […]
Month: August 2014
We’ve voided the warranty on the planet
Holy crap, guys. It’s after 9pm. The sun has gone down. It’s dark outside. It’s also nearly 90 degrees outside with a heat index of nearly 100 degrees outside. Right now. If we don’t stop […]
Do you even know how to vend?
This year, in the Facebook groups for two local conventions that I support and attend, there were little blow-ups at the last minute that got under my skin a bit. In one case, an attendee […]
You COULD ask me to Photoshop bird poop off your windshield…
…but I wouldn’t if I were you. Ten minutes later, you might get this.
The outskirts
I’ve initiated a new category here at Scribblings to encompass my rants, musings and occasional artistic dabblings on the subject of real space exploration. If there’s a surprise here, it’s that I haven’t had a […]
OVGE 2014 Post-Game Roundup
The 11th annual Oklahoma Video Game Exhibition (OVGE) has come and gone, and as has been the case since the first year of the show, I was there with goodies from my game collection for […]
OVGE Pre-Flight Checks
Power UP! Today was a day of dusting, battery compartment cleaning, screen-cleaning and general getting-ready for this weekend’s OVGE event in Broken Arrow. Everything, even my finicky Coleco Donkey Kong Jr. tabletop, is ready for […]
Thanks… but whose tablet is this?
A while back I went on at some length about how the manufacturer of a tablet I had just purchased was trying to wriggle out from under the terms of their own warranty. I launched […]
