I recently started using Sun's version of GNOME 2.0 as my primary desktop environment, and decided that I needed an icon to launch my favourite mail application, mutt. I'm not much of an artist or a GIMP expert, but I was able to combine the GNOME terminal icon with the mutt in the Mutt banner:

Feel free to use it, if it's useful to you.

My friend Mike is getting married in about a week, so his best man Bryan rounded up a group of Mike's friend and instructed them to head directly to Sea Bowl in Pacifica. I certainly hadn't bowled since my wedding and probably not since moving to the US. However, I managed to average over 100 for four games, so sending the ball straight is still a good fallback strategy (as in golf) for those of us who lack actual bowling technique. Here's Mike demonstrating his more refined delivery, honed during hours of candlepin bowling in eastern Massachusetts:

Generally, Neil was the dominant player, understanding the use of bowling balls of different weights for different situations and delivering with a consistency the rest of us could only envy:

Simon, Bryan, and I were glad to hand in our shoes, what with forearms tight from overuse, fingertips rubbed raw, and egos so bruised as to make a return to the alley unlikely in the near future:

I had to return to family duties, but the boys continued on to the pool tables. Whether either activity will be a portent of marital harmony is much to soon to say.

I think beliefnet's Belief-O-Matic is a pretty interesting Internet assessment quiz. The BOM asks you for the answers to twenty-odd questions plus the importance of this particular question to construct a parameter space that is then matched against a set of declared religious systems. The name's pretty slick, too.

My friend Alan's new blog at bleaklow.com talks about being a drum-bashing Ranger rambling about England's Peak National Park. It's worth a visit, if only to divine how wasteful the North American sprawl form of suburbia is in comparison to the island form found in the UK. (Granted, it's also detectible that Alan is on a remote island...)