...so enjoy some regurgitated YouTube video of a Japanese robotic cat. I hear this is what Web 2.0 is all about. This post, not the cat....
Continue reading Wow I really can't think of anything to post tonight.
August 2007 Archives
Technically, Manuel did the ... uhh ... Wiiing. P.S. $5 for a web browser? Is this thing worth it? P.P.S. This thing is freakin' dwarfed by the 360....
Continue reading I believe I've Wii'd myself.
Today's video inspiration comes courtesy of Rob Williams. It's an oldie, but a goodie....
Continue reading Another embarrassingly bad TV performance.
I feel sorry for this girl. ...but not sorry enough....
Continue reading My family couldn't afford maps.
This happened nearly a month ago, but I forgot about it until today. The Volvo C30 is, in my opinion, a really neat little car. It's a Ford Focus/Mazda3 that looks better than both and is available with a turbocharged straight-five. This car actually has more potential than even the...
Continue reading I sat in a Volvo C30.
Note to video game makers: I'm sick of Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. I realize it's a fantastically technical and brilliant track, but every other game studio on the planet thought it was necessary to include it in their game, and so by now I've already looped the damned thing thousands...
Continue reading Enough with the Laguna Seca already.
The short version is that comments have been disabled here for a day or two now, but if I find the comment system broken in the future, I'll be sure to notify you all, as the failure in the comment system typically isn't obvious until after you've submitted a comment....
Continue reading I've fixed the comments.
...it's a nuclear sockpile....
Continue reading Wait for it....
This is pretty cool: Harbor Freight is opening a store here in Bellevue. For those of you who don't already know, Harbor Freight is a discount tool retailer that sells on- and off-brand power tools are serious price cuts over places like Sears and the big-box home supply stores. Last...
Continue reading Harbor Freight coming to Bellevue.
It appears that an errant ActiveState Perl installation option befunked my blog: sometime between my old Activestate Perl installation and the build I just installed, the ActiveState Perl people renamed their IIS extension mapping from "Perl CGI Extensions" to "Perl CGI Extension," thereby failing to preserve my existing configuration option...
Continue reading Haha! It's fixed..
Day 3 of no blog: I spent last night helping Manuel install some hot car stereo action into his wee Miata. That took significantly longer than expected, so no progress on actually fixing the blog problem. Maybe tonight? P.S. It looks like Layla took this picture right when I was...
Continue reading --blog; ++Miata;.
Day 2 of the blog outage (err, comment and publishing outage?): I'm considering finally going to a hosted solution. Livingdot.com seems to provide exactly what I'm looking for. I'm really sick of managing all of this Perl and Movable Type nonsense. Again, gross....
Continue reading Another day without publishing.
Some of you may have noticed that /dev/null is particularly inaccessible today. More so than usual. It turns out that the problem can't be blamed on Comcast (the cable connection looks good) or Belkin (the old Linksys router has been delegated to switch-only duty), and technically it can't be blamed...
Continue reading Terminating thread..
Someone please let me know if I'm missing some huge advacement in consumer power technology, but it seems that the electrical juice we're receiving today is being processed in exactly the same way it was 20 years ago. After the widespread introduction of switching power supplies, I can't think of...
Continue reading Advances in power supply design.
Today's PSA is brought to you by the Department of Homeland Security. The current terror alert level is Elevated (yellow). The US government sincerely hopes you feel (marginally) alert....
Continue reading Public Service Announcement.
Luke Skywalker: This R2 unit has a bad motivator. Look! Link (no cache—there's not much there)...
Continue reading R2Beer2.
...include going to the Redhook brewery, drinking some beer, and then lying on their lawn and watching Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas on a giant inflatable projection screen. Sweet....
Continue reading Plans for the evening....
Has anyone not yet seen this? The picture at right is not fake....
Continue reading Boat overboard.
It appears that a prior resident of this house is willing to trade 1,000 free hours of AOL service for the childish fun of homemade throwing stars. Imbeciles—it's one thousand free hours! This was spotted in the same vine pile as the still-unidentified armless torso found abandoned two weeks ago....
Continue reading More vine mountain fun.
This little guy torments the cats....
Continue reading The mouse in just outside of the house.
Admittedly, I've got a better photo of the cucumber. But the picture at right—well, it's just got something special to it. P.S. Yes, we've got cucumbers growing in our front yard. Layla planted them there as part of the pre-wedding lanscaping....
Continue reading Everybody look at my cucumber now.
It turns out that a handful of local islands, San Juan, Orcas, and Guemes are named for 18th century Spanish explorers. The thing is that all three of these islands were named for the same guy: Juan Vicente de Güemes Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, the 2nd Count of Revillagigedo. He...
Continue reading What's in a name?.
SkyDrive is, as far as I know, the first free (or ad-supported) large-scale cloud storage system from a major software vendor—or at least, one that isn't hacked together from an email system and some third-party machinery. It doesn't suck. I'm really happy the Windows Live Folders name was dropped. Hoorah...
Continue reading SkyDrive.
I had a dream last night that the DJIA would lose 600+ points today. Turns out I'm only 65% psychic. Or 0%, depending on how you look at it. Update: I should learn to dream in better indexes. DJIA is crap. Another update: Today's $INDU will surely not match August...
Continue reading I dreamt it. Sorry..
Spotted on our honeymoon trip....
Continue reading Gesundheit.
The special features on disc 4 of CSI: NY Season 2 contains huge massive spoilers for the big episode on disc 5 of the same season. Dammit, people....
Continue reading Can I get a spoiler warning, please?.
Maybe he had just passed his nemesis!...
Continue reading Wow, is this what they mean by karma?.
I apologize in advance for the sketch. This is supposed to be a layout of my house with all of our television/internet cables laid out—but it really looks like a soggy cardboard box with scribbles all over it. Nevertheless, here's the mess I've found when I started pulling apart the...
Continue reading Coax tango.
The aforementioned network infrastructure box is now completed, installed, and whirring away quietly in the attic. However, in pulling the existing RG-6 out of the walls (to be replaced by Cat 6) I've managed to drill a 2" hole in one of the ceilings. So sometime this week I'll be...
Continue reading Network box: installed.
I climbed into my attic and sawed closet doors in half. Really....
Continue reading What did you do today?.
After years of ignoring this show's recommendations, I've finally watched a handful of episodes of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. It's ... mostly great! Although, it's also mostly lowbrow and heavyhanded. Mostly....
Continue reading Harvey Birdman: thumbs up?.
It appears Marathon 2: Durandal has just been released for Xbox Live Arcade. This is ... kinda cool, actually. I'll always remember Marathon as one of the sweet Mac games that I never had for the PC, which isn't entirely accurate because I think it was the only sweet Mac...
Continue reading Marathon 2: Durandal: Xbox.
