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Hapy Valentine’s Day! In celebration, here are pictures of Washington, DC’s biggest celebrity, panda cub Tai Shan, playing in the snow.
Cue awwwing.

Mr. T has something he wants to tell you.
Wow. Check out that bling.

First there’s this touch screen developed at NYU that recognizes multiple points of contact simultaneously.

I really must have one of these. You don’t know how many times I’ve complained about only being able to select one thing at a time. This isn’t even a touch screen issue. The way I see it, if I plug two mice into my computer, I should have two pointers. This is a major breakthrough in human-computer interaction. Maybe the biggest step toward making interacting with a computer like working in the physical world.

Then there are these songs about space, physics, energy and motion, weather, and nature.

This editorial really sums up what I’ve been thinking about cartoons and violence. I really never have gotten the whole rioting thing, anyway. I like to think of myself as pretty open-minded, but some people’s logic, I just don’t understand. Some days I get angry. I never then go flip my neighbor’s car or burn the Saudi embassy. I just don’t see it.

Be prepared for a major disaster with this educational video from the official Federal Civil Defense Administration.
If we’re losing the war on terror, it’s because we’re not making enough cartoons.

In case you didn’t catch the Super Bowl, or if, like me, you enjoyed the party more than the game, here’s the only part that you missed. AOL’s Super Bowl commercial highlights.
Before the game, Justin, Heather, and I did some power kiting. I’ve had this fascination with kites since I got my first taste of kite boarding almost three years ago. And I’m still trying to move to the beach. Meanwhile, we can still have some fun playing around in the wind and the mud. Here’s the photographic evidence of the fun we had with my kite in Anacostia.

I’m getting a new office on Monday. Well, half of an office, but it’ll be a new half. I’m thinking I should try out one of these 3D optical illusion paint schemes in there.

2005 was the warmest year on record. Feel free to panic in whichever way seems most appropriate to you.
I’d just like to take this opportunity to gloat a little and say, “If we would have elected the Al Gore in 2000, none of this would have happpened. Our cars and power plants would have been running on love, not fossil fuels.”

I wake up in the morning, can’t find my grey pants. How do you lose pants? It’s not like I go over to a friend’s house and put them down to play some crazy MMORPGS and forget to pick them up when I run out the door to my third-level black belt ninja LAN party. It’s also really hard to lose my pants in the same places that I usually lose my keys and my thumb drive (where is my thumb drive?). A pair of pants takes up some space and is pretty hard to miss lying on my dresser.
How do you spell grey? Are you a fan of gray with an ‘a’ or is it grey with an ‘e’? Or is it one of those things where it depends on the gender of the subject. For example, a grey whale vs a gray shirt?
I digress. Then I make a heat a bowl of grits in the microwave while I try to decide from which bottle of hot sauce I will partake on this day.

Sorry I’m so sporadic with posting here. I suppose my weeks are mainly filled with going to work and coming home to lie around. So I’ll tell you about my weekend.
Friday night I went out salsa dancing at Habana Village. Now I have to tell you, this is DC’s premier club for Salsa. I know because I’ve been to that one. There are three floors of great dancing music, two with live bands. It is also the most diverse club I’ve ever been to. It’s in a narrow Adams Morgan building, so the dance floors are pretty crowded. But I only got one elbow to my face. I feel bad about interrupting that girl’s spin.
Well, anyway, this was my first time trying my hips at salsa dancing. I have to say it was a pretty intimidating thing. Especially after I saw all the guys there that really could dance. I had a great time anyway, though. Still, I’m not adverse to taking some lessons before I go back.
When I woke up Saturday morning, which was not during the hours one would typically consider “morning,” I started some work on MemBap.org, the website for Memorial Baptist Church in Williamston, NC. All that seemed very much like what I’ve been doing at work for the past two weeks. The difference is that php is much more fun than Java and Struts.
I then rounded out the night with some Will Rock. Now, Will Rock probably isn’t the best FPS out there, it’s just the one I have. There is an awful lot of shooting, though. It came with my video card, which I have to say is pretty hot. I’m afraid I’m not getting my full use of it if I’m not playing video games though. Of course, when I do play video games on it, I can’t make use of the dual-monitor support. I need to find a hot dual monitor FPS. Well, in case you care I played the game a bit when I first got it, but I got much farther last night than I ever have before. In bed at 2.
Then last night I had this dream where I was applying Ctrl-Z to the universe. That was a pretty cool feature. Not only did it reverse people’s actions, but I could also see the changes in the snippets of object code above their heads. I love dreams like that.