For those of you who may have missed it two weeks ago, it appears that kids who were given the OLPC used it to ... surf for porn. I'm really really amused that this problem wasn't solved up front. I mean, did anyone seriously think kids would use this thing...
I officially finished my 20/20 program today—although I've been practically done with everything since before the wedding. The only reason my final physician consultation was delayed this long was a big scheduling conflict. I got my final bloodwork numbers today, and I'm pleased (and admittedly surprised) to note that my...
Saturday was yet another day of our annual company picnic. Our day essentially went like this:Arrive Drink beer Take this silly picture Leave P.S. The "take 3" part of the title refers to the fact that this is not the first com-pan-y pic-a-nic post....
Here you can see I've got the front two wheels finished....
Manuel recommended the local K1 go-karting track recently for one of my bachelor parties. Well, it's a serious load of fun, so a handful of us went back this last week for a few more rounds. The thing about K1 is that they charge a good deal ($20 a person...
For Thursday's week of housework project, I built a box for all of my networking gear. The impetus came from the giant mass of cables and power cords that lives in one of the corners in my office. The cable outlet is in the middle of the wall, and so...
This is a picture of a Ford Contour. This particular Contour has had a white driver's door put in place of an ostensibly damaged original door. And on this replacement door is a Huge. BMW. Logo. This was spotted at the Bellevue PRO Club yesterday morning. Enjoy....
My plan for Tuesday was to remove the anode from the water heater, inspect it for wear, and replace it if necessary. Anodes are good ideas—they're essentially sacriicial pieces of metal with lower oxidation energies than whatever they're attached to. The idea here is that the anode will corrode instead...
I'm behind enough on housework that I've decided to take every1 evening this week and spend each doing some sort of manly around-the-house thing. I thought of this yesterday, and it still seems like a good idea. So that's a good sign. On Sunday I removed all of the ivy...
I've loaned the truck to a friend for the weekend, and as collateral, he's left me his Saab 9-3 2.0t. I can't help but think he got the bum end of this trade. I think this is the first time I've driven a turbocharged car since I sold my Talon...
Raven put together this absolutely kickass Forza Motorsport 2 replica of Kyle Busch's NASCAR-mobile—not kickass of its own accord, but kickass because the replica is [expletive deleted] amazing and was done entirely by hand in FM2's layer editor. Holy crap, dude. This was way better than the ricegasm I sent...
I'm not sure if you can tell, but I've got a thing for goofy signs. Well, I took the shot at right during our trip to Spain and promptly forgot to post it—and since I was up tagging pictures, I found myself in a position to post it anew. So...anyone...
Ignore the crappy cameraphone picture of the flyer left in my office kitchen, and instead refer yourself to I-DESIRE.org, some sort of weird motivational support group thing from India. It seems like these guys are trying to accomplish the right thing, but I can't help but giggle a little when...
Do you all remember Rob's old Supra? Well, I was up early this morning (don't ask how early) tagging pictures when I ran across this little gem—which I appear to have taken just two weeks after I posted the aforelinked entry. I guess I never got around to putting up...
So at some point before the wedding I picked up a Fred Meyer plastic grocery bag underneath the BMW, which subsequently melted itself to the exhaust system and smelled all the way to Canada. Being lazy and on my honeymoon, I didn't actually remove the plastic until the last day...
Now that we're back from our honeymoon, we've gotten back into the routine of cleaning and fixing everything in the house—and after all of the clutter from the wedding, we've been at this most of the weekend without much of a break. The nice part about going through everything is...
Wood carving has been a part of northwestern culture for many centuries. The natives have been carving totem poles for a really long time and, from what I can tell, they passed the culture of carving down to the settlers when they really started to populate this area in the...
This actually exists: it's the intersection of Kitchen-Dick and Woodcock roads in podunk Sequim, WA. Also note that a mile or so away, someone had covered up the K on the sign where Kitchen-Dick meets highway 101....
We're back! Time for pictures. Craigdarroch castle, in suburban Victoria. There's a petting zoo in the park right outside of our B&B. Layla got to pet some baby goats. Us, outside of the Empress hotel in the heart of downtown Victoria. Part of our room at Dashwood Manor. Step 1:...
While in sunny (and damned hot) Canada, we're staying at Dashwood Manor, a bed & breakfast right outside downtown Victoria, BC. This place was built back in 1912 and sports the age-appropriate Mock Tudor exterior with lots of dark wood paneling on the inside—except it's all tasteful, unlike the crappy...
OK, this one-picture-per-post thing isn't going to fly. Here are the shots I snagged today. This is what I look like before I've had my coffee. Apparently I'm really groggy and wear national agency shirts in foreign lands. This is what Layla looks like when she flashes gang signs to...
Let's all 1337 like it's 2003....
Click on the photo to see the phoons hidden in the arrows. Ahem....
Part of the drive/ferry ride to Victoria involves the whimsical town of Port Gamble, which appears to have been frozen in carbonite circa 1880 and thawed sometime last week1. Inside one of the Victorian-era waterfront homes (of which there were only about a dozen), a local store hosted a "marine...
Well, we've taken the plunge. ...and that means it's time to get away from it all. Layla and I actually snuck away from the party on Saturday night to a secret local hotel (it turned out to be the one I stayed at for my interview at Microsoft) but it's...
You may have noticed that I didn't post anything yesterday. It's the first time I'm going to leave a day blank. There are some days where there just isn't enough time to get online, because the whole day should be spent with your friends, your family, and your love....
Wow. P.S., finish your wedding playlist before things get crazy. Or else, you'll get distracted taking care of everything else, and finishing it the night before....
Can you feel the excitement yet? I can....
This morning, Layla woke me up and asked, Can my mom and I paint the ugly wood paneling in the living room white? I said, "sure," and 15 hours later, here's the result....
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If you look closely at this photo, you can spot the ridiculous wheel arches housing megaspaced bling rims. Oh, and the two-part handle spoiler? It's got Hamann stamped on the bottom. I'm sure somebody paid a pretty penny for this set of upgrades....
Is it my crappy Comcast service? Is it my crappy Linksys AP? Or is it the crappy video drivers that keep bluescreening my Server 2003 machine? Who knows—let's restart all three!...
