This has been a decent weekend. Last Friday Chris and I went to the mall to get some ideas for Halloween costumes from a specialty store. I think we are going as Mr. and Mrs. Fantastic from the Fantastic Four, you know, cus we're fantastic. Saturday I sat around and watched the Michigan - Notre Dame game because some freinds came over (one of which was a Michigan alum). That was really just our pre-game show for the evening plan; Jon Stewart at Merriweather.
Today I just watched more football. Happy to see the Ravens beat the Raiders. I'm sitting here right now really hoping the Patritos can maintain thier lead over the Jets. Its getting dicey but the Pats are still up by 7.
A good weekend indeed.
Sunday, September 17, 2006
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Idiocracy
If you don't live in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Toronto, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, or Austin, just put this movie in your netflix queue.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Electoral Vote Predictor
As far as I'm concerned this was the best site for tracking the electoral college during the 2004 election. Now they are back for the 2006 Senate elections and btter than ever.
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Atheism
"I'm agnostic about God in the same way that I am agnostic about fairies"
One thing the article didn't crystallize well enough but did discuss is the fact that good moral behavior is its own reward. No belief in God, an afterlife, or the literal Bible is needed. If God and the word of the Bible really were the ultimate source of morality, we'd still be practicing slavery (a practice which the bible goes to great lengths to defend morally).
One thing the article didn't crystallize well enough but did discuss is the fact that good moral behavior is its own reward. No belief in God, an afterlife, or the literal Bible is needed. If God and the word of the Bible really were the ultimate source of morality, we'd still be practicing slavery (a practice which the bible goes to great lengths to defend morally).
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Because I'm just that way...
If you are using Internet Explorer, I have an interesting little work-safe trick for you to try. Close any other Explorer windows you may have open and then just click here. (Note: this page is only viewable by those running Internet Explorer, any other browser loading it will only render a simple blank screen.)
If you have trouble with that first link, try this one (the first link will work much better though, but this one will load for other browsers).
If you have trouble with that first link, try this one (the first link will work much better though, but this one will load for other browsers).
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
I Love BJ's
(oh, it hurts leaving the jokes unsaid)
So we've started an experiment to shop for certain things at BJ's wholesale club recently. It seems the best things for use to buy there are non-prodcue items and meat. I'm not sure if it bothers me that the meat section is my favorite part of BJ's. I know it made me feel weird the other day when I made the comment, "I love BJ's meat".
So we've started an experiment to shop for certain things at BJ's wholesale club recently. It seems the best things for use to buy there are non-prodcue items and meat. I'm not sure if it bothers me that the meat section is my favorite part of BJ's. I know it made me feel weird the other day when I made the comment, "I love BJ's meat".
Friday, August 18, 2006
The Walk
For no other reason than that my brother in law said I should post a movie on the web somewhere, I give you "The Walk" one of my first productions using the iMovie software. This movie took me exactly 23.7 seconds to make, not including filming time.
Enjoy
Enjoy
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Otakon
Last weekend I had the opportunity to attend Otakon at the Baltimore Convention Center. My wife, Brother-in-Law and his friend all paid the 60$ registration fee to attend for both Saturday and Sunday. I however couldn't justify the expense. You see, Otakon is an anime convention. While knew this event would be high entertainment for me, I knew it would only be entertaining for an hour or two. That's the way it works when you are expecting to be entertained by the attendees rather than by the convention itself.
The plan was for all four of us to go on Sunday and trade off one of the three passes we had. Serendipitously, we found a discarded pass on the way to the Convention Center so we could all enter together. I was now going by the name "David" written on the pass.
Here's the scene: 5000 nerds, dorks, loners, geeks, goths, hackers, role-players, gamers, and assorted other shakedowns from the cultural substrata descending upon the convention center, mostly dressed as thier favorite anime characters; Sailor Moon to Hellsing to Gohan to Cloud. Oh ya, quite the fun scene. I'm glad I went. Of course, it wasn't all just for the people watching. I actually did manage to find one exhibit I was genuinely interested in; Red vs. Blue. Technically they classify RvB as "machinma" not anime, but I bought a T-shirt off of them anyway.
Update: My wife's pictures of the event can be found here.
The plan was for all four of us to go on Sunday and trade off one of the three passes we had. Serendipitously, we found a discarded pass on the way to the Convention Center so we could all enter together. I was now going by the name "David" written on the pass.
Here's the scene: 5000 nerds, dorks, loners, geeks, goths, hackers, role-players, gamers, and assorted other shakedowns from the cultural substrata descending upon the convention center, mostly dressed as thier favorite anime characters; Sailor Moon to Hellsing to Gohan to Cloud. Oh ya, quite the fun scene. I'm glad I went. Of course, it wasn't all just for the people watching. I actually did manage to find one exhibit I was genuinely interested in; Red vs. Blue. Technically they classify RvB as "machinma" not anime, but I bought a T-shirt off of them anyway.
Update: My wife's pictures of the event can be found here.
Monday, August 07, 2006
Mizzice in the hizzice
I have recently rekindled my fondness for killing.
Our house has recently been inhabited by a pack of mice. We noticed the first one a few weeks ago, while we were downstairs watching TV. It scurried across the floor from the utility room (where we keep the dog's food) into one of the little woofer holes at the bottom of a stereo speaker next to the TV. Chris started freaking out and I had to grab the speaker and bring it outside in an effort to shake the mouse out. I think I was successful but I wasn't sure, because just at the moment when I thought I saw the mouse shake out, I flinched my head away (it was a violent shake I gave, and I thought the mouse would fly into my face). When I looked back a half-second later, I saw no trace of the mouse anywhere around me, outside or in the speaker. Mission accomplished, or so I thought.
About a week later we see a mouse scurry across the floor as before, except it didn't end up in the speaker, instead in went into a vent built into the side of the hearth for feeding cold flue air. My heart sank thinking that I hadn’t shaken that mouse out the speaker after all. The day after that though, we saw a couple more mice scurry around in single file. Suddenly this situation was promoted from a mouse problem to a mice problem.
The next day our house was filled with peanut butter baited traps. I bought a variety of traps, thinking that if any one mouse got wise by seeing a dead comrade in a particular trap, he might learn to avoid it. I had the traditional snap-traps, a few glue traps, and some new-fangled humane traps that caught them in a little box. By last Friday I had killed or captured five mice in all and I thought I had won. But then, just the other day, we began to hear some noises in the walls upstairs. I think we have just one mouse left and I will remain on the hunt. For one day I will be the glorious victor, and my enemy will be destroyed.
Our house has recently been inhabited by a pack of mice. We noticed the first one a few weeks ago, while we were downstairs watching TV. It scurried across the floor from the utility room (where we keep the dog's food) into one of the little woofer holes at the bottom of a stereo speaker next to the TV. Chris started freaking out and I had to grab the speaker and bring it outside in an effort to shake the mouse out. I think I was successful but I wasn't sure, because just at the moment when I thought I saw the mouse shake out, I flinched my head away (it was a violent shake I gave, and I thought the mouse would fly into my face). When I looked back a half-second later, I saw no trace of the mouse anywhere around me, outside or in the speaker. Mission accomplished, or so I thought.
About a week later we see a mouse scurry across the floor as before, except it didn't end up in the speaker, instead in went into a vent built into the side of the hearth for feeding cold flue air. My heart sank thinking that I hadn’t shaken that mouse out the speaker after all. The day after that though, we saw a couple more mice scurry around in single file. Suddenly this situation was promoted from a mouse problem to a mice problem.
The next day our house was filled with peanut butter baited traps. I bought a variety of traps, thinking that if any one mouse got wise by seeing a dead comrade in a particular trap, he might learn to avoid it. I had the traditional snap-traps, a few glue traps, and some new-fangled humane traps that caught them in a little box. By last Friday I had killed or captured five mice in all and I thought I had won. But then, just the other day, we began to hear some noises in the walls upstairs. I think we have just one mouse left and I will remain on the hunt. For one day I will be the glorious victor, and my enemy will be destroyed.
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