New Wheels Week...

For a few months, we've been looking for a new car (or truck), and for a few years, I've been looking for a new bike. This week they found me.

Scout Camp 2005...

Here are some pictures from scout camp at Camp Jayhawk in Perry, KS. We took 7 boys and 3 leaders. Overall, a great week. About a fillion cumulative bug bites, and 17 completed merit badges. Not a bad ratio. Check here for more pictures.

New Hard Drive for theMdg...

theMdg staff is pleased to announce that we have received a generous donation from one of it's patrons, Butters the Cajon. He has sent us a very nice hard drive with 120GB of space. We are humbled and thankful for this generous gift. You can see the redistribution of space on the system info page. Three cheers for the Cajon.
Hip hip...
Hip hip...
Hip hip...

DCI on the big screen - Aug 11th

Drum Corps International (DCI) may be one of the least understood or appreciated activities in our country. In recent years, the good people at DCI headquarters have taken steps to spread the word. One way they're doing this is to present the World Quarterfinals competition (top 21 corps) live in theaters all around the country.

If you haven't seem a drum corps show, this is your chance to get a taste of this exciting event. Believe me, you're in for a memorable day.

Or Click here to read more about this event, or to buy tickets.

Click here to read more about DCI.

Guy recites Pi from memory...

Check this out.

A 59-year-old Japanese psychiatric counselor set a world record by reciting "pi" to 83,431 digits.

Yeah, that's 83 thousand digits, by memory. And they're not in some easy pattern. Just to show you how impossible this is, here are the first 500 digits of pi:

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197 16939937510582097494459230781640628620899 86280348253421170679821480865132823066470 93844609550582231725359408128481117450284 10270193852110555964462294895493038196442 88109756659334461284756482337867831652712 01909145648566923460348610454326648213393 60726024914127372458700660631558817488152 09209628292540917153643678925903600113305 30548820466521384146951941511609433057270 36575959195309218611738193261179310511854 80744623799627495673518857527248912279381 8301194912

What in the world was he thinking? Read more here.