For Christmas this year my wife got a me a 55 gallon aquarium.  I love it, it has been a wonderful gift, though sometimes I think that she has doubts about getting it for me.  My one 55 gallon tank has sense multiplied into one 10 gallon tank for my eldest daughter, and one 13 gallon that I use as a quarantine/hospital/breeding tank out in the garage.   I have always found them to be very peaceful and a wonderful addition to any room (shhh don’t tell her but I might try to sneak in one or two more around the house.).  The last time that I had an aquarium was over 20 years ago (crap I am getting old), and a lot of things have changed.  Back then it was little more than putting water in the tank, putting the fish in and feeding them.  Now there is a whole process to properly preparing the tank for fish, and lots of good science behind it (wife will often call it my big chemistry set).

So I thought that I would start writing about what it is that I have learned, and hopefully help someone out there keep from running into some of the problems that I have run into.  Hopefully as I write down the things that I have learned and my adventures it will become clearer to me and help get the word out there about proper fish care.

For my first installment I plan to talk about the Nitrogen Cycle this is by far the most fundamental part of fish keeping.  Understanding this will allow you to keep fish for many year.

Have you ever found yourself watching a movie or TV series and seen something that so completely captured you imagination that even as an adult you would love to have in real life.  I mean thing like a light saber, ray gun, an X Wing fighter, or a motorcycle from the movie Tron.  Well at least one of those has come to reality (and no I don’t mean the light saber, I still haven’t seen one that will allow me to cut through steel), you can now own a fully street legal Tron Light Cycle.

Thanks to Parker Brothers Choppers (haven’t really put much on the site), the same shop that built a real Batpod.  So if you would really like to get your hands on one of these awesome bikes, it will only set you back $35,000, you can find them here on eBay.

Hearkening back a little bit to the sites roots, here is a bit of interesting news out of the video game world.

So your traveling for work, with a lets say a so so laptop, and you want to play a game other than solitaire.  Well now you can.  A new service called OnLive.  OnLive will allow you to stream high end graphic intensive games to just about any computer that has a good internet connection.  The only downside that I see that you will have to pay for the game, and then $5 a month to play it.  As many of you know I am not a big fan of monthly pay services.  But like satellite radio if you travel a lot this could be a great way to play on the go.  If you want to read up some more you can do it here on CNet.

and you can see a video of it here during the Digital City Video Blog.