This made me laugh out loud, so I had to share it:

Image from ICanHasCheezburger.com

Along with my blogging, I’ve taken a bit of a hiatus from my Latin lessons lately, but that’ll change after Christmas.  There’s just been too much going on between work and holidays, but I should be able to spend more time on these side projects soon. Read more »

I’ve discovered a serious lack in Ubuntu, as compared to BSD: the fortune program.

Fortune is a simple program that started showing up on Unix systems around 1980.  Originally, it printed a one-line “fortune cookie” message, selected randomly from a file of them.  Over time, people added jokes, quotes, and other bits of text to them.  Most people would have their system set up to run fortune when they logged in, so it was kind of like a “quote of the day” calendar, or like the random quote module I have here on my blog. Read more »

I don’t know if this fits the Sunday Inspiration theme I was trying to get started, but it’s cute as the dickens. See if you can watch it without smiling.  (Warning: the first part is pretty violent.)

How would a group of monks who’ve taken a vow of silence sing the Hallelujah Chorus? A group of students came up with one possible way:

(H/T: Inside Catholic)