I made an appointment to see my doctor today so I could get a jump start on allergy season. With the excessively long, cold winter we’ve had I expect spring will go into overdrive as soon as it can, and that means pollen, and lots of it. While there, I had the doctor freeze off a wart from the back of my left knee. It was a very difficult spot to treat, since I could never see it without a mirror. The liquid nitrogen is always fun to watch, but the freezing and unfreezing of my skin is not a pleasant experience. Neither has been sitting at a desk all day today with a bulging cold-burn on the back of my knee. It has been an unpleasantly uncomfortable day.
I love living in these times. Today I received an email invitation to a security seminar. One of the summaries states that it is:
A Look at both Carbon-based and Silicon-based Vulnerability Assessment
I ran across the card game Egyptian Ratscrew today. According to the site it “has nothing to do with Egypt, rodents, or screws.”
Most intriguing is the following quote, based on three sixes being played in a row:
which results in everyone losing, and mandates that the deck be completely burned by midnight and that no one else can play Ratscrew until the next day. This isn’t superstition, this is pyromania.
Card games with the possibility of fire. That’s good entertainment.
The mad scientists at RiffTrax are at it again. Here’s my favorite: