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Educational Hazards
Nov. 11th, 2009 | 11:48 am
LJ is apparently dead to me. Twitter/Facebook appears to have supplanted it since I actually *gasp* post short bits, where LJ I feel obligated to do longer blog-type entries. Some of you may have missed this amusing kiddo story from a month ago though:
So yesterday I headed to Lowe's to pick up some supplies, Corey in tow. Shortly after getting there, he tells me he's got to potty. No big deal, we finally find the bathroom, he goes, and we head back into the labyrinth to collect the supplies.
I'm half on top of the car in the midst of strapping some lumber down, he suddenly says at full volume: 'Daddy! Poop!' I scramble down, close the car up and rush back inside ... too late.
So, I'm trying to clean Corey up who is already well-distracted and over the accident. He just wants to get going again. Wiggling, attempting to put his hands on everything, and talking. I'm trying to keep his voice down to a reasonable level since I'm a bit annoyed and the restroom is the doorless kind, likely projecting every noise into the shopping space.
I'm in the midst of the cleanup and I hear him say "boobies ... boobies"
Then at the loud, echoing volume only 5-year olds can muster:
"DADDY WHAT'S BOOBIES!"
"Boobies Daddy, What is that!"
"Why is it there? On the wall?"
The hazards of having a very literate 5 year old. Thank you for the random education, anonymous wall-scribbler.
So yesterday I headed to Lowe's to pick up some supplies, Corey in tow. Shortly after getting there, he tells me he's got to potty. No big deal, we finally find the bathroom, he goes, and we head back into the labyrinth to collect the supplies.
I'm half on top of the car in the midst of strapping some lumber down, he suddenly says at full volume: 'Daddy! Poop!' I scramble down, close the car up and rush back inside ... too late.
So, I'm trying to clean Corey up who is already well-distracted and over the accident. He just wants to get going again. Wiggling, attempting to put his hands on everything, and talking. I'm trying to keep his voice down to a reasonable level since I'm a bit annoyed and the restroom is the doorless kind, likely projecting every noise into the shopping space.
I'm in the midst of the cleanup and I hear him say "boobies ... boobies"
Then at the loud, echoing volume only 5-year olds can muster:
"DADDY WHAT'S BOOBIES!"
"Boobies Daddy, What is that!"
"Why is it there? On the wall?"
The hazards of having a very literate 5 year old. Thank you for the random education, anonymous wall-scribbler.
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Justifiable damage
Sep. 4th, 2009 | 09:15 am
Largely I've ignored posting anything to LJ lately, since half the crap I start writing sounds like emo douchebaggery. However, I just couldn't pass up the chance to do a good work-related rantage even if it's being exacerbated by the fact I'm essentially being required do put in 10 hour days to the end of the year.
The application I work on feeds content out to a very large and public-facing website. Naturally, there's an amazing amount of attention paid to it from all levels. Lately, accessibility has been a hot topic since it's public-facing and falls under Section 508 governmental rules. Some pages got flagged as an issue since there were images that didn't have alt text (allowing screen readers to determine what they are, etc). The developers on the server side where the pages were built decided to fix this quickly, without consulting anyone.
The brilliant solution? Set it to 'i'.
Which was implemented right to production.
Which throws other validation errors.
Which was set on loading it into the database.
So, either thousands of pages have to be redeployed to the site, or a somewhat risky database modification needs to be done. Brilliant, right?
The application I work on feeds content out to a very large and public-facing website. Naturally, there's an amazing amount of attention paid to it from all levels. Lately, accessibility has been a hot topic since it's public-facing and falls under Section 508 governmental rules. Some pages got flagged as an issue since there were images that didn't have alt text (allowing screen readers to determine what they are, etc). The developers on the server side where the pages were built decided to fix this quickly, without consulting anyone.
The brilliant solution? Set it to 'i'.
Which was implemented right to production.
Which throws other validation errors.
Which was set on loading it into the database.
So, either thousands of pages have to be redeployed to the site, or a somewhat risky database modification needs to be done. Brilliant, right?
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Summer Blitz
Aug. 5th, 2009 | 09:34 pm
Had a shore week in Ocean City, and then not too long after there were 2 weeks in Maine where I worked part of the time. It feels like I've gotten absolutely nothing accomplished for work or at home in the past in the past couple months with all the traveling, travel prep, and plain ol' time off.
Coming back to a 'normal' workweek has been brutal, and I feel like I'm not making progress anywhere. Managing to tread water on keeping the house a bit together, but massive fail everywhere else and it's been bugging me like heck. Lots I want to do, folks I want to see, and nothing gets done.
The topper? News that our OT target for the rest of the year is 25%.
Coming back to a 'normal' workweek has been brutal, and I feel like I'm not making progress anywhere. Managing to tread water on keeping the house a bit together, but massive fail everywhere else and it's been bugging me like heck. Lots I want to do, folks I want to see, and nothing gets done.
The topper? News that our OT target for the rest of the year is 25%.
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Dirt!
Mar. 23rd, 2009 | 05:08 pm
There's just something satisfying about doing physical work after untold hours of code wrangling and conference calls. The planting of more cold-weather stuff in the garden over the weekend and distributing compost was satisfying. The whole compost process of discarded food scraps and other lawn scraps is pretty cool, especially when tearing the pile apart and seeing the layers of the process at work. That kind of stuff I'd miss in the city, but there's always options of rooftop/entire lawn gardening, even if light might be somewhat of a problem.
So when's spring without an icy cold cutting wind going to appear?
So when's spring without an icy cold cutting wind going to appear?
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Booooring
Mar. 17th, 2009 | 07:51 pm
.. is my life. I keep thinking of perfect things to post as I'm lying in bed trying to fall asleep, but I promptly forget them.
New iMac has been ordered for those of you who didn't see that bit of news elsewhere. Thanks to a freelance job building a dynamic website in Drupal, we actually had the cash. Even so, I still agonized over spending the money, but it makes sense to upgrade now. The G4's pretty long in the tooth, and this will replace my 'gaming' machine as well, thanks to the upgraded graphics.
Anyone else got a lead on site work? Current client is insanely happy he'll be able to edit his content right in the web and not have to muck with raw HTML or pay for every little update.
New iMac has been ordered for those of you who didn't see that bit of news elsewhere. Thanks to a freelance job building a dynamic website in Drupal, we actually had the cash. Even so, I still agonized over spending the money, but it makes sense to upgrade now. The G4's pretty long in the tooth, and this will replace my 'gaming' machine as well, thanks to the upgraded graphics.
Anyone else got a lead on site work? Current client is insanely happy he'll be able to edit his content right in the web and not have to muck with raw HTML or pay for every little update.
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untitled
Feb. 17th, 2009 | 09:00 am
I had a pretty vivid dream where I opened my own restaurant in a converted diner. Even down to the layout of the place and the logo. Bits of the menu too - nothing pretentious or overdone, just real food.
I half wonder if the subconscious is trying to tell me something. I've of course thought about doing the eatery thing before, but never in so much detail. Granted, it doesn't exactly seem like the best time to open a brand new place when others are closing. Huge time/$ investment, but the strangely the only big concern I keep thinking about is all the health regs and managing the food stocks. Some places have a person wholly devoted to food procurement because it can make or break a place. You don't want to overstock, because then it goes bad and is wasted but you also don't want to keep running out of things.
The alternative is a place similar to Spring in Paris. It's small, more like hosting a large family dinner with a set menu based on what he found was good at the markets that day. Of course, doubt I've got the skills for that - much less in suburbia.
Still, fun to think about. The growing dislike of suburbia can wait for another rant.
I half wonder if the subconscious is trying to tell me something. I've of course thought about doing the eatery thing before, but never in so much detail. Granted, it doesn't exactly seem like the best time to open a brand new place when others are closing. Huge time/$ investment, but the strangely the only big concern I keep thinking about is all the health regs and managing the food stocks. Some places have a person wholly devoted to food procurement because it can make or break a place. You don't want to overstock, because then it goes bad and is wasted but you also don't want to keep running out of things.
The alternative is a place similar to Spring in Paris. It's small, more like hosting a large family dinner with a set menu based on what he found was good at the markets that day. Of course, doubt I've got the skills for that - much less in suburbia.
Still, fun to think about. The growing dislike of suburbia can wait for another rant.
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Backup!
Feb. 2nd, 2009 | 11:55 am
Last week the HD in my desktop went bad with no warning. The status still showed normal, but attempting to repair, format, restore, or reinstall the OS failed on every attempt. I've been using Mozy to store the supercritical stuff offsite but the real savior of the day was OSX's Time Machine. Ordered a new HD next-day, installed it, and 'restore from Time Machine' got me back up and running like nothing ever happened. I'm very thankful I got a new external HD for christmas. Having a bootable backup that's not going to require you to reinstall everything is priceless! I could make my own system for doing this, but TM just works.
Hope this reminds the rest of you guys to have a backup solution - even if you're just dumping to DVD every month!
Hope this reminds the rest of you guys to have a backup solution - even if you're just dumping to DVD every month!
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Next Generation
Jan. 26th, 2009 | 06:19 pm
I'm raising the next generation of computer nerds it seems. My 16 month old is currently on my lap, banging away on the work laptop with notepad maximized. It's funny how engrossed both of them can get, sometimes imitating me working with a book propped open as a 'laptop'. oops. Keys are getting popped off now...
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Fiscal responsibility is for suckers
Jan. 20th, 2009 | 03:59 pm
That's the message I'm getting lately between the collapse of my 401k, the housing "bailout" and now with the School and Student Service for Financial Aid (SSS). We'd been looking at private schools for the oldest kiddo due to the headaches in trying to get him accepted to public school early (even after going through a private K program).
According to the SSS, we can afford to foot the bill for private school to the tune of 20-30% of my salary. Sure. If I pillage my home's equity, drain the kiddo's college funds, use my non-401k retirement stocks ... no problem!
According to the SSS, we can afford to foot the bill for private school to the tune of 20-30% of my salary. Sure. If I pillage my home's equity, drain the kiddo's college funds, use my non-401k retirement stocks ... no problem!
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Chess Games
Jan. 19th, 2009 | 05:22 pm
Somehow, the topic of chess came up around the dinner table over the weekend. We sat down with the 4yo kiddo and showed him the basic rules, running through a game. He was surprisingly interested in how it played out, and didn't have any trouble understanding what the rules were. We'll have to play some more games and see how much of the rules really stuck. Thinking ahead moves was the difficult part, since kids tend to live in the now.
Heck, some adults have trouble looking ahead. My current internal debate is the master's program again since it didn't work out last year. After talking with![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
online_stalker and bradamant I'm questioning if I really want to do it, or I feel like I should do it. I saw a very good question last week on thinking about what you really want to do. Imagine you've gotten a massive inheritance, but you're required to keep a full-time job. What would you do, now that you don't have to worry about money?
Of course, a Master's Degree doesn't fit anywhere into my reply.
Heck, some adults have trouble looking ahead. My current internal debate is the master's program again since it didn't work out last year. After talking with
online_stalker and bradamant I'm questioning if I really want to do it, or I feel like I should do it. I saw a very good question last week on thinking about what you really want to do. Imagine you've gotten a massive inheritance, but you're required to keep a full-time job. What would you do, now that you don't have to worry about money? Of course, a Master's Degree doesn't fit anywhere into my reply.
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Cookin' Good
Jan. 12th, 2009 | 03:47 pm
So, I've actually found TV that was interesting enough to watch. I got all of Top Chef's last season and watched it all the way through over the past week. Why haven't any of you insisted I watch it before? The "drama" can be silly, true - but it's neat seeing the cooking displays of skill, and the not-so skilled. (as in yeah, how lucky was Lisa to make it to the final 3) I think the reason I do like it is more because I can think of what I would, or wouldn't have done for many of the challenges. There's usually one contestant that wows you, and one that you wonder what in the heck they were thinking.
Don't spoil the current season for me yet! I've watched the first show of it and getting caught up on that one too.
One idea I'd really find interesting as a show (and as a participant) would be to take people with absolutely no formal training, and not in the restaurant business through something similar. Pair them up as apprentices with some pro chefs and go from there with challenges. More investment of time from the pros though, so unlikely it would actually fly.
Don't spoil the current season for me yet! I've watched the first show of it and getting caught up on that one too.
One idea I'd really find interesting as a show (and as a participant) would be to take people with absolutely no formal training, and not in the restaurant business through something similar. Pair them up as apprentices with some pro chefs and go from there with challenges. More investment of time from the pros though, so unlikely it would actually fly.
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Friends in the New Year
Jan. 3rd, 2009 | 08:17 pm
I'd started writing to complain about how I need a vacation from my vacation with everything going on, but it just pales in comparison to other events. I found out that one of my close friends from high school had a brother commit suicide on New Year's day, and was likely the last person to talk to him.
Even though I hadn't talked to him at all in at least a year, I immediately sent him a message. I really wish I could do more for him, and can't even comprehend how he must be feeling. It did make me reflect that maybe one of the reasons I considered 2008 to suck is that I really didn't keep in touch with my friends nearly enough. We've all got resolutions, and I did have some in mind. However, I think I'll be happy at the end of 2009 if I can honestly say I've kept in touch with all the people important to me. I know I'm at fault for not keeping in touch with some, and I'm going to do my damnest to call folks once in a while and always reply to an email/evites/etc.
Even though I hadn't talked to him at all in at least a year, I immediately sent him a message. I really wish I could do more for him, and can't even comprehend how he must be feeling. It did make me reflect that maybe one of the reasons I considered 2008 to suck is that I really didn't keep in touch with my friends nearly enough. We've all got resolutions, and I did have some in mind. However, I think I'll be happy at the end of 2009 if I can honestly say I've kept in touch with all the people important to me. I know I'm at fault for not keeping in touch with some, and I'm going to do my damnest to call folks once in a while and always reply to an email/evites/etc.
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Trials of Education
Dec. 22nd, 2008 | 10:15 pm
Our education system sucks.
The oldest kiddo was too young to go to kindergarten this year since he misses the age cutoff. Which is non-negotiable in this district. So we get him enrolled in a private half-day school not too far from here, because there was no way we'd be able to keep up with his quest for knowledge alone. He's doing great, and first third of the year flew by since it was all new and exciting. He's actually starting to get bored because he's learning what he doesn't already know quickly. They've started reading ... but he's already miles ahead into 2nd/3rd grade stuff.
All this, and the district wants to start him in kindergarten. Once he starts, THEN they want to test him since he's "not school aged yet". He isn't their problem until then, and making it very clear every single kid is 100% equal to them. Yes, there are parents who always think their kid is a genius and push too far, but we've got reams of proof that he can do all these things.
It's certainly made more visible to me the complains of my parents who are teachers about the way the system is run. We're still trying to make progress with the school district, but it's tough going. There are some good private schools nearby that would be great for him. Tuition though? 10-18k is a lot to spend. It hurts being limited by money when it would clearly be better. Don't want him to end up disliking school because it's boring or not challenging.
The oldest kiddo was too young to go to kindergarten this year since he misses the age cutoff. Which is non-negotiable in this district. So we get him enrolled in a private half-day school not too far from here, because there was no way we'd be able to keep up with his quest for knowledge alone. He's doing great, and first third of the year flew by since it was all new and exciting. He's actually starting to get bored because he's learning what he doesn't already know quickly. They've started reading ... but he's already miles ahead into 2nd/3rd grade stuff.
All this, and the district wants to start him in kindergarten. Once he starts, THEN they want to test him since he's "not school aged yet". He isn't their problem until then, and making it very clear every single kid is 100% equal to them. Yes, there are parents who always think their kid is a genius and push too far, but we've got reams of proof that he can do all these things.
It's certainly made more visible to me the complains of my parents who are teachers about the way the system is run. We're still trying to make progress with the school district, but it's tough going. There are some good private schools nearby that would be great for him. Tuition though? 10-18k is a lot to spend. It hurts being limited by money when it would clearly be better. Don't want him to end up disliking school because it's boring or not challenging.
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Twitter Shout
Nov. 22nd, 2008 | 01:00 am
- More people in the US government need to act like this: http://tinyurl.com/5ou897 [Wed Nov 12 14:15:49 ]
- Seeing my 401k statement is inherently depressing. My rate of return for the year is -36.7%. [Wed Nov 12 17:57:19 ]
- Why is half the internet broken this morning? Bunch of my usual sites are dead. [Thu Nov 13 13:21:34 ]
- Apparently Hostmonster will support remote MySQL connections, but not PostgreSQL - even via SSH Tunneling. Gah! [Thu Nov 13 18:07:25 ]
- I didn't even play GH3 yesterday. and for some reason I've got bits of the effects running in my head. [Fri Nov 14 12:51:32 ]
- http://tinyurl.com/5s5w2b [Fri Nov 14 13:44:48 ]
- Hit enter too soon, that's a good article about the whole Wall Street mess [Fri Nov 14 13:45:26 ]
- Finished making a quickie PDF for the card&block game the kiddo and I came up with: http://cybra.net/d/node/11 [Fri Nov 14 18:31:21 ]
- Perfect example of why you shouldn't Flash your site: http://www.2012architecten.nl/new/index
1.html How the heck do I see more playgrnd pics [Fri Nov 14 18:38:03 ] - Got to see Ben Sollee last night at WCL. Amazing the sounds he gets out of a single instrument. [Sat Nov 15 13:03:51 ]
- I can't decide if the new star trek trailer is cool or a twisted abomination of the original series. [Mon Nov 17 21:23:08 ]
- GWT suddenly made much, much more sense when I look at it less as web development and more as traditional OO app creation. [Tue Nov 18 02:49:45 ]
- Keyboard dying, looking for an ADB-USB adaptor so I can use my old extended with awesome keys, but the adaptors are around $40?! [Wed Nov 19 16:52:49 ]
- Doggie just chased a big buck out of the fenced-in backyard. [Wed Nov 19 20:00:04 ]
- Ugh, feel nauseous just running the block. Want to be able to run 5k again, I can walk it, but not run straight through. [Fri Nov 21 16:39:05 ]
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D&D is still witchcraft?
Oct. 31st, 2008 | 08:56 pm
Seriously, I thought the while D&D is a gateway to the devil thing went out a while ago:
As has been reported by a few other gaming blogs and news sites, the Charity Auction at this year's GenCon Indianapolis was held to benefit Gary Gygax's favorite charity, which I will not name here for reasons that will soon become obvious. The fine folks at GenCon raised over $17,000 for this charity, which helps starving children in impovershed areas of the world--only to have that money actually turned down by the charity. The charity refused due to the fact that the money was raised partly by the sales of Dungeons and Dragons materials, which as we all know, puts an irrevocable taint of evil on the filthy lucre that us demon-worshipping gamers might want to use to, say, donate to starving children. Not only is this a slap in the face to every gamer, but it is especially insulting to Mr. Gygax himself, who I understand donated to their cause many times over the years. Plus, I'm sure the children who would have gotten food or clean drinking water with that money would be sort of upset, too.</blockqoute>
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Twitter Shout
Oct. 26th, 2008 | 08:54 am
- I just gave up on catching up with my work email. I just blanket-marked 399 messages as read. How do people do inbox zero? [Wed Oct 22 18:17:55 ]
- I really shouldn't be looking at the OpenGL ES documentation. It's been at least 5 years since I touched any OpenGL at all ... [Thu Oct 23 00:27:57 ]
- OpenGL is starting to consume my brain once again. I look at things and think about how I'd arrange polys/strips to create it [Thu Oct 23 21:42:18 ]
- Gah. The one thing that frustrates me about java. Getting the stupid classpath correct! [Fri Oct 24 01:05:16 ]
- DONE. We'll see if the feed scheduled properly tomorrow. [Fri Oct 24 02:36:36 ]
- Got a really nasty campaign ad from the PA Rep Party in the mail. I'll be real glad when this election is over. [Fri Oct 24 17:11:38 ]
- So apparently my org is a few hundred hours short of target for the quarter. Despite breaking our lives for the past year we gotta do more? [Fri Oct 24 23:42:43 ]
- Survived the Saturday gauntlet of kiddo theater, kiddo violin x2, and the acrobatic circus. [Sat Oct 25 20:19:52 ]
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Twitter Shout
Oct. 22nd, 2008 | 01:12 am
- I'm such a geek. LoudTwitter was too spammy, so I made my own Twitter->LJ feed. [Sun Oct 19 12:40:05 ]
- Ow. Shoulder hurts - too much lifting, carrying cooking. [Mon Oct 20 00:40:51 ]
- Zoe spotted a DirectTV blimp going over the house. Cue doggie barks and howling! Gotta get it on video sometime [Mon Oct 20 17:41:16 ]
- The most awesome library ever: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/mag
azine/16-10/ff_walker?currentPage=all [Mon Oct 20 18:48:49 ] - So tired of conference calls that take forever to resolve very simple problems. [Tue Oct 21 13:51:28 ]
- Need suggestions for decent screencap/recording software that will actually run on something less than a Core2 alongside something else [Tue Oct 21 19:03:53 ]
- New Futurama was a ton of win, particularly the 'Deathball Stadium' [Wed Oct 22 01:53:47 ]
- Man, I really have a problem chasing/learning new tech. Was looking at Git over SVN, but realized there's no reason I really have to switch. [Wed Oct 22 13:35:44 ]
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Geeeeeeky
Oct. 19th, 2008 | 08:45 am
Well, since I figured people would quickly get tired of seeing LoudTwitter every friggin' day I made my own Twitter->LJ Feed. I'll just make it post when there's over a dozen entries or so so it's not all spam city, especially since some people are on twitter anyways!
If only i had a pool option I'd put one up for how many tweets should be the cutoff, along with the 'I don't care' and 'Knock it off' options. ;)
If only i had a pool option I'd put one up for how many tweets should be the cutoff, along with the 'I don't care' and 'Knock it off' options. ;)
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Twitter Feed Test
Oct. 19th, 2008 | 08:37 am
- Awake this early on the weekend sucks. Body still tired, mind is going Mach 2. [Sun Oct 19 09:29:58 ]
- Man, I'm still finding itchy spots where I got DE on me from cleaning the pool filter [Sun Oct 19 00:16:20 ]
- Messing with the Twitter API and XMLRPC [Sun Oct 19 00:08:06 ]
- Wish I could set LoudTwitter to once or twice a week. It's gonna get spammy otherwise. Hm. Wonder how hard it'd be to make a script [Sat Oct 18 11:07:54 ]
- Figures, a non-school/work day and both kids are up before 7am. [Sat Oct 18 10:51:35 ]
- Cool, Z took a few steps over to me earlier! Also, yay for this crappy week being over. [Fri Oct 17 23:28:37 ]
- Anyone got a scoop on the best freelancing site for code monkeys? Seen: guru, elance, getafreelancer, renacoder, project4hire [Fri Oct 17 18:12:34 ]
- Strange, LoudTwitter did one post earlier this week and nothing since. Let's see if I can get it to work again. [Fri Oct 17 12:06:30 ]
- No run this morning, 1yo is up same time as me. I guess with winter coming I should shift it to the afternoon anyway. [Fri Oct 17 10:17:19 ]
- Great article on a game start to finish. What sucks is I know I could do this if I'd FINISH one. http://tinyurl.com/3evn68 [Fri Oct 17 02:14:03 ]
- I love Lego, so obviously this is quite cool: http://tinyurl.com/yvzwv5 Maybe I shoulda been an engineer? [Fri Oct 17 00:06:08 ]
- I love Lego, so obviously this is quite cool: http://tinyurl.com/yvzwv5 Maybe I shoulda been an engineer? [Fri Oct 17 00:01:02 ]
- This is pretty cool stuff. Metal Origami: http://www.industrialorigami.com/ [Thu Oct 16 12:44:38 ]
- Giving up on debate now, I can only hear about Joe the plumber so much. [Thu Oct 16 02:07:45 ]
- Hack The Debate is interesting in the fact that the comments are hilarious "McCain is kicking ass" = wha? Are they watching the same debate? [Thu Oct 16 01:58:11 ]
- Gah, apparently Spore's "Gadget Bomb" = "Nuclear Weapon". This was explained where? Now the whole planet is trying to kick my ass. [Thu Oct 16 00:20:58 ]
- Are all craigslist gig and job postings thinly veiled scams? I understand wanting a 'deal' but you're not going to get experience for $10/hr [Wed Oct 15 19:15:57 ]
- Trying out LoudTwitter, since I rarely seem to write longer blog posts these days. [Wed Oct 15 15:59:28 ]