This popped up on the news a couple of hours ago. Two well known actresses, a co-founder of a global law firm and other assorted very rich people shelled out millions of dollars to get their kids into elite colleges. Why am I not surprised.

Well like the title says I'm back in the hospital because my COPD kicked up big time. Shortness of breath, ugly loud coughs and coughing up ugly phlegm. The mass in my lung is still there and I'm to see a cancer doc soon for palliative care options. Could be surgery or chemo or radiation. The surgery part I'm hoping is a last resort. I'll do the other nonsense and be a bald person, no problem. Then I can make other people jealous. I've had three breath therapies since I've been here. Got here ar...

So this is my question...    We have a game going since 2009, the ban game. Very popular too, people come from all over the place to ban stuff. Another popular game was the Borg game. It got kinda tired and retired. So, since it is pumpkin season why not a game for the holiday called the Pumpkin game and instead of using Borg we use Patch. For example...I am Pumpkin so and so of Patch, make me a pie. Or some such. I dunno, it sounded good at the time.   

Yup, just like the title says only not out of frustration. No rants allowed. That said,      Ever since I canceled my sub with Photoshop, life can be very annoying at times, I've been trying to concentrate on my other projects. However since I already know what I want to do, having already completed several prototypes on a breadboard, it seems only logical (don't ever say I'm logical. Me and logic have a love/hate relationship) to actually see what it is I'm trying to do. So I ...

So this is where I'm at. Skinning on a screen is pretty good, you can make all kinds of stuff. Images on a screen. For a long time now I've been thinking of getting back into 1: A life long passion and 2: Another kind of passion. In my profile it says I like building models and playing with electronics. I got back into both! I got a bunch of pics that I'll be uploading to this threads from time to time. So here's the first one but with a question. The screenshot with the text is the IDE of Ardui...

I saw this and was reminded of the time people drilled holes in their smartphones to install a headphone jack. Where are his brains?   

He did read the sign

I just watched the last seven minutes of Cassini before it plunged into Saturn's atmosphere at more than 77,000 miles an hour. The pictures it sent back over the last thirteen years plus what the Huygens probe discovered on Titan have to be some of the most spectacular views of the Saturnian system. Not taking anything away from Juno at Jupiter or New Horizons as it flew past Pluto but Cassini in my opinion tops them all. Thirteen years at Saturn! Absolutely incredible.   

I finally get stuff back up and running after more than a month of no internet and its gone. The Forum Ban Game ain't there. Who ate it?!?