blog roll addition.
Today’s addition to the blogroll: Atomic Nerds.
I have no clue why I haven’t been reading LabRat and Stingray over at Atomic Nerds every day, because that blog has an extremely high beverage>nose>keyboard factor. The post about boobies was pure genius, and the Remote Control post immediately preceding it had me belly-laughing (to Quinn’s great amusement), which is something not too many blogs manage to do.
Go check out Atomic Nerds, and tell them I sent you. If I refer enough people, maybe I’ll get a free toaster, or particle accelerator, or something. They must have a few surplus ones down in the basement at LANL somewhere.
May 2, 2008 at 9:01 am
Atomic Nerds is concentrated essence of awesome.
May 2, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Much obliged for the love. Check behind the copy machine, we’ve usually got something interesting back there.
May 2, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Yeah, good stuff. I link them now, too.
May 2, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Atomic Nerds is how I get to all of the blogs I read when I’m not at my home computer. They have a fairly handy blogroll that includes the vast majority of blogs I read, including yours. They also have an easy to remember name.
Oh, and their posts are generally either funny as hell or filled with extremely interesting information.
May 2, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Actually, the surplus accelerators are at The Black Hole in the town of Los Alamos. I don’t know if it’s still open, but when I worked there 10 years ago, it was this amazing salvage operation run by a former Lab employee who had renounced weapons (and when they say “weapons” out there, they mean A-bombs). What a cool place. I still have an neat optical sensor do-hickey around here somewhere, and a giant red panic button.
Other favorite salvage outfits include:
the Boeing Surplus Store (south of Seattle, now closed)
the Pratt & Whitney Surplus Store (in E. Hartford CT, never the same since they discovered eBay)
-E
May 2, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Silly me, they actually DID blog the Black Hole over at AtomicNerds…
that’ll teach me to comment before I click.
*slaps forehead*
-E