My Slice of the Globe

Feliz Navidad!

What happens when a world is about to be destroyed. This article over at Wired takes a look at the virtual world of Asheron’s Call 2 whose servers will be shut down on Dec 30th. Take a look at the article here.

As seen on “Written While Riding the Train“. Another one of those quizzes, here are my results :

You are The Magician

Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity.

Eloquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing,
you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive.

The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the slight of hand and a medicine man – either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

You may want to check out “Luthea Salom”, no relation, at least that I know of at this time. Salom is the equivalent of Smith on Mallorca. Stumbled onto her site as I was looking at some of the statistics for this blog. You can check out her music on her site : www.lutheasalom.com Can’t hurt to refer to her even if not related, its not bad, pretty good in fact.

As seen on digg. Here is a link for a Nintendo micro ad that for some reason isn’t being shown in the US.

Enjoy!

Yes, I’m officially back and no longer jet-lagged from my honeymoon.

I just attempted to post this on Slashdot. I figured I would reproduce it here as another place to publicize this information. Below is my post :

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A few day ago a story was posted about the Tulane School of Engineering becoming the latest victim of Hurricane Katrina. As an alum I was greatly saddenned by this but now a group of current students, faculty, and alums are attempting to bring the school back from the edge. The website they put together is savetulaneengineering.org and there is a also a petition available here.

If your are a Tulane Engineering Alum or an interested party, please go ahead and take a look. If this is the first you are hearing about this, you can take a look at Tulane’s drastic restructuring plan here. I figured I would post on /. because if it wasn’t for that previous article I would still be in the dark.