This morning, I had a problem with my sound not working on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine. Strange, as it usually works. Whenever I'd log out, I'd hear the familiar Ubuntu conga "dadadump", so sound was working, just not for my user account.

So, I rebooted my machine, and reminded …

Here are ten things I will never be able to do in this lifetime:

1. Be a member of a sorority
2. Be a child prodigy
3. Fully understand what it's like to be non-white / non-male
4. Grow up in a single parent home
5. Meet Richard Feynman, or any of the notable heroes in …

Yesterday, Lance Armstrong felt it was time to fess up to something that we pretty much already knew: Lance Armstrong was using performance enhancing drugs in order to help him win all of those cycling achievements. The outrage that followed was predictable: people believed in Lance's abilities to push the …

Name one component to a role playing game that you absolutely need in order to play. OK, chips and pop are important, but that's not what I had in mind. Paper, dice, books, pencils, miniatures; yes yes, but there's something else more crucial. What's that? Um, I'm not even sure …

[caption id="attachment_3043" align="alignright" width="180"] One Mighty Dime. (Source: Wikipedia)[/caption]

Of all of the coins in the United States of American currency, none is more hard working than the humble dime. This lowly, misunderstood coin is a little workhorse, combining value with it's diminutive size. What other …