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.
February 7, 2006
Duck … and COVER!
February 6, 2006
Super Bowl Sunday Highlights
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.
February 3, 2006
3D Paint Jobs
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.
January 27, 2006
Global Warming Confirmed
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.”
January 24, 2006
Counting bricks
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.
January 22, 2006
Salsa, FPS, and Ctrl-Z
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.
January 13, 2006
January 4, 2006
Governor’s School West 1998 (GSW98) Pictures
You probably don’t care, but I just uploaded some of my really old pictures from North Carolina Governor’s School.
December 22, 2005
Trans-Siberian Orchestra Light Show
If you’re looking for the Trans-Siberian Orchestra light show there it is.
My common poor spelling seems to have made this site very popular for other people who would write “Transiberian Orchestra.”