1. It's August.

   • christmas
   • halloween
   • holidays
   • pictures
   • store
   • virginia
   • wtf

   

   

   Not only is Christmas four months away, but the Christmas decorations store is open before the Halloween store.

   Taken at Tyson's Corner Mall... 9 August 2010.

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2. Spaceblimp pictures part two.

   • adventure
   • experiment
   • hacdc
   • pictures
   • spaceblimp

   As promised, here are the pictures I took at the HacDC Spaceblimp prototype launch on Saturday.

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3. Spaceblimp pictures part I.

   • hacdc
   • links
   • pictures
   • spaceblimp

   Here are two sets of photographs from the Spaceblimp test launch yesterday, from R. Mark Adams, Pam, and Christine, and from Bokunenjin.

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4. I guess I missed the storm yesterday.

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   • pictures
   • storm
   • trees
   • virginia

   

   

   

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5. This grasshopper made better time than we did.

   • commute
   • grasshopper
   • hitchhiker
   • pictures

   

   

   For whatever reason, this grasshopper decided to hitch a ride on the outside of the TARDIS for a couple of miles of my commute home on Wednesday night. He managed to hang on for quite a while at 25 miles per hour until deciding to carefully pick his way down the chassis to the roof, whereupon he took flight under his own power.

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6. Fire! Fire! Fire!

   • barbecue
   • fire
   • pictures

   

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7. Lyssa unboxing Starcraft 2 on Sunday at lunch.

   • games
   • geek
   • pictures
   • starcraft 2
   • stories
   • women

   At long last, Starcraft II.
   
   The front cover folds out to reveal more about the story.
   
   DVD-ROM in its sleeve and what passes for the manual.
   
   Bonus: a notepad bearing wanted posters for Jim Raynor.
   
   We also ran into something all too common at lunch that Sunday whilst leafing through the contents of her just-purchased copy of Starcraft 2. I happened to be leafing through what passes for the game's manual (which is largely a recap of what happened during the origial Starcraft and Starcraft: Brood War). At one point our waiter came up to refill our drinks and made …

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8. The giveashit switch.

   • life
   • pictures
   • switch

   Still in the 'on' position.

   

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9. I need to get a new parking pass.

   • car
   • funny
   • pictures
   • portal

   This one's expired.

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10. Photo album: The Next HOPE

    • 2600
    • conference
    • hackers
    • nyc
    • pictures

    The pictures I took at The Next HOPE are now online. You can look at them over here. Be warned, they're not particularly dialup-friendly.

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