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Watchmen growing faint
White hair out my nose and ears
just snorted a cat
Thinking about Ecclesiastes 12 in conjunction with a picture of growing old. “grinders cease because they are few” – Now I get it. He’s talking about teeth. Booyor as an old man…
Dad, I hope I get your sideburns.
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Ponder ceiling fans
While spinning, what can’t they do?
Grill turkey burgers.
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What kind of message
do I really want displayed
on a sweet new ride?
Went shopping tonight. Came back with a book. There’s not enough New Republic insignias out there.
See More The Conduit Screenshots at IGN.com
Nice Battle Royale, Slade!
The Conduit by High Voltage Studios is scheduled for the first part of next year. It’s going to have a competitive multiplayer (whatever that means…the press release was written by The Sphinx, I think) and they’re focusing on graphics.
Hopefully they also get good controls.
These guys are the ones who made Leisure Suit Larry and the White Men Can’t Jump officially licensed game. What’s the worst that could happen?
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Low expectations
are just one coping technique
used by modern nerds
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I always knew that
Franklin was funky
but watch how George moves!
Why didn’t I see it earlier? Save on petrol by using flammable gases. And then put yourself up in the air with giant packets of flammable gases.
I actually think it would be cool to take a blimp/airship to Montana this summer. SkyCat says that their SkyShuttle costs $9 per 100km. It’s okay. I’m not traveling in kilometers. I’m using miles.
Oh wait.
Hmm…$9 per every 62 miles. 1,306 to Billings, MT. $189 one way using an airship. United Airlines is cheapest with $267 right now. That’s some decent savings. But…
These airships average around 100mph. 13 hours to get to Billings? It could work. Too bad there’s only 12 seats. I don’t think they could maintain the $9 promise for long.
That and there’s not many airships flying to Big Sky Country.
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Much thanks to The Count
(Ferdinand von Zeppelin)
and flying machines
When I first heard the term hypermiling, I thought I was going to have to perform surgery on my car to add some funky stuff.
Nope. Just some crazy driving tricks. Some are good (check tire inflation to reduce surface resistance) but some are kinda kooky (turn off your engine in a coast or when in traffic) that take some risk (which I probably won’t do).
Check out EcoModder and tell me what you think.
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I may save on gas
but replacing transmissions
will not come cheap, bro!
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Dragons will eat you
If you baste yourself in mail
And lack pointy sticks
With stories of dragon attacks and watching a Star Wars room on Extreme Home Makeover (my goodness! The boy had a cockpit desk jumping to hyperspace on one wall and an X-Wing bed making the Death Star run (complete with Vader’s TIE firing) on the other) I have decided to show you some of the stuff I captured today on my phone:
At Sunday school a kid asked me to build a robot. I built a Mad Cat Mk II taking out a Raptor fighter.
Of the marketing ploys used, which book is a junior high boy supposed to read? Or do they not read but only grunt over a grill? This was in the teen section.
Have you seen the Titan AE-ish Doomsday Vault? Reminds me of the frozen room in the season finale of LOST (which can be watched and understood having not followed the rest of the show – it branches into crazy sci-fi and military action. Worth your time.). Also, the nickname generator is pretty funny. My nickname is “Huckleberry Pinhead” (my mother named me after her favorite literary figure – Ethan Frome).
Sorry about the delay in updates. Dinosaur attack. Happens to the best of us.
A lot less awesome than when Devinistan’s Led Zeppelin Armada participated in a coup by Lord Beverage.
Since last we met our fair heroes, a new car had been introduced into the mix. Firefly transports being a little fuel inefficient for my taste, I had another option. A 2009 Scion XB. (Yes, I added a new category but I won’t rant too much. But I will be tracking some stats. (Like any good testing coordinator.))
I just finished making labeled DVD boxes and stuffing them with stickered DVDs, enough for 19 ballet parents to enjoy. (Thus the hour of my post. Woo, summer! Anything is possible!)
While working on the DVD project I learned a lot of stuff.
(Some of this pertains to even non-Mac users, but if you don’t want to read about DVD technology, you can scroll down.)
(You’ll know it’s time to turn the page when you see Mittens dance like this:
)
Let’s begin:
Go, Mr. Mittens!
Thanks for indulging in that little DVD geek session. It’s mainly for my own reference later, but I know that I could have used an article like this…Now, to work on the district technology handbook…ballet is done!
As promised in days of yore…yore being Wednesday…here are some pictures!
Here I celebrate two of my favorite things from Japan. Auron was not present for comment.
My wife took this picture of my first hundred miles. I’ve never had a new car (Frankly, I only had the ’88 Reliant K. This is kindof a jump.).
We then went with a friend to RA to get some official sushi.
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Dinosaurs happen
Get used to the claws and horns
That’s just how it goes
I thought I was cool
Until I complained about
the teenager noise
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It’s clear that my car
is now cooler than I am -
I’m okay with that.
It’s also a big jump from the Reliant.
(More details/photos later…)
I keep hearing this word this week, so I thought I’d research the origins:
A juggernaut (American pronunciation) is a term used to describe a force regarded as unstoppable, that will crush all in its path.
The word is derived from the Sanskrit Jagannātha[1] (meaning “Lord of the universe”) which is one of the many names of Krishna from the ancient Vedic scriptures of India. One of the most famous of Indian temples is the Jagannath Temple in Puri, Orissa, which has the Ratha Yatra (chariot procession), an annual procession of chariots carrying the murtis/statues of Jagannâth (Krishna), Subhadra and Baladeva (Krishna’s elder brother).
from Wikipedia (yes, I use it when I’m not in school librarian mode)
Sometimes people would get crushed under these giant rolling statues.
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The word Juggernaut:
Now it’s not just for freakos
with big, fat helmets.
(Or Clone turbo tanks, for that matter. Mike – the guy who helped us at the Scion dealer was named ‘Sean Lanigan’. Pretty funny.)
Some vandals thrashed Robert Frost’s former home in a beer party.
I understand the spirit behind using “Road not Taken” as a framework for challenging criminals to seize opportunities for critical choices, but are they more responsive than, say, a class full of speeding driving school students? It’s a multiple day class, so hopefully after a couple of sessions it will start to sink in with at least one student.
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What good are poems?
Can they change a life or not?
Bitter irony
Editor’s Note: Can the Associated Press throw in any more puns to their human interest stories?
An additional note – Did you see that C.S. Lewis and Lawrence Lessig are listed as podcasts for changing the world by iTunes U? Pretty cool. (And they also listed off a new favorite class of mine, Future of the Internet. I feel intellectual all over.)
Adobe is making an update to Acrobat (which will mean an update to PDFs). Being a Mac user I love PDFs because people can’t complain about different formats and “I can’t open that Word document because you used a Mac.” (“No, it’s because you don’t know how to open e-mail attachments.”)
Check out the version 9 page. You can now add Flash.
Do you realize what this means?
Like any cool technology, somebody’s gonna mess it up. But there is a lot of potential. I just hope that PDFs don’t become Websense blocked.
“Because sometimes the connected world is too confident.”
Yeah thanks, Websense. Way to boost my feeling of confidence and security. The workplace is all warm and fuzzy because of you.
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With video PDFs
there’s less imagination -
need librarians
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Wayne’s World’s back, I guess
but the biggest post grabber?
Vampire reactions
Everyone’s posting their reaction to the Twilight trailer. (Remember: their reaction, not the actual trailer.) There was some pretty funny stuff with Panda vs. Iron Man (Ben Stiller using a phone for filming to be “viral” and reminding us over and over again, as well as his comment on Robert Downey, Jr.’s past) but there was so much blech in the skit that it’s not worth the effort of linking to.
Is this who will dominate the Internet in a few years? Whatever happened to the good old days when all you could find were X-Files fans sites and Kirk vs. Picard vs. Death Star vs. Enterprise debates?
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It means change of mind
to the point of changed spirit –
which we all could use
It’s also the name of Bella’s production company (Monteverde/Verástegui’s company they created specifically to make the movie).
My wife’s been hired out to teach some line dances.
You may have noticed this, but which one is greater?
The Electric Slide
vs.
The Cha Cha Slide
Categories of Combat
Similarity to MC Hammer Video:
Winner: Electric Slide
Great use of balloon pants lets me forgive wearing an open jacket over a bikini.
Ability to be danced by even me:
Winner: Cha Cha Slide
“Slide to the left, slide to the right. Now breathe! In and out, in and out. Charlie Brown!”
Best mysterious lyrics:
Winner: Electric Slide
“Umb diddle luppa sure like to boogie!”
By the way, the real lyrics are:
Jiggle-a-mesa-cara
She’s a pumpin’ like a matic
She’s a movin’ like electric
She sure got the boogie
Jiggle-a-mesa? What, are they Gungan?
The Winner: The Classic, Electric Slide
Hey. I remember watching Macarena on Univision before Los del Rio ever got a hold of it.
By the way, the next time you’re hired out to teach dancing, check out this site that my wife found.
AND MIKE: Here’s your Star Wars parody.
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It’s interesting
to dance to a sliding beat
outside the wedding
Meesa funky Gungan!
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Playing bass guitar
on Sunday, Star Wars before
and energy drinks
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It is always nice
to have a place to go wild
and rock a little
I forgot that they were going to do the Lifehouse Skit. Always awesome.
The second freedom concert. Very fun. No babies delivered (I think).
My brother and I got River City Ransom on the Virtual Console.
Pros:
Cons:
Still fun, but there are some major glitches. My brother and I must have skipped over quite a bit, even though we were actually trying to play. And the passwords are pretty easy for kids to enter. Here’s ours:
Slade – We missed, like, four bosses. Here’s just the beginning of the FAQ:
The Beginning—————————————–>
Crosstown High School:
Easy enough, just pummel on everyone and grab the cash.Sticksville #1:
Make sure to grab the trashcan once you’ve cleared the area.Grotto Mall:
Buy Dragon Feet from the bookstore, and then continue onwards.Sticksville #2:
Use the railing to stall your opponents, before dealing some serious
death from above! Ignore the path upwards for now, and instead leave via
the right.Sticksville #3:
Avoid the pit and use the wall to get the drop on the enemies here. Unlike
the other enemy turfs you’ve been on though, there’s only four normal punks
here. Once they’re defeated, we come face-to-face with our first boss![%%%]Boss: Moose [07b.1][%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%]
Part of the Mob gang, he’s still not all that tough. Like normal punks,
climbing the wall will freeze him in place, so your best bet is to lure him
towards the middle of the screen, and then go with the death from above
tactic, climbing back up once you’ve knocked him down.
[%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%]Once he’s out of the way, leave via the way he came in.
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What’s up with my feet?
They have all ten toes but still
look like funky yams
Another shot of the Zone of Corto (MGH) and a cast for orthotics. One side of my fascist is .47 cm but the injured fascist is .84 cm (that’s bad…but it comes with free ice cream…that’s good!), according to today’s ultrasound. (Like my foot’s givin’ birth to the ugliest vegetable ever.)
The Big Question: Did God design my foot but my finite eyes don’t appreciate the beauty or are my feet a result of the fallen nature of the world’s entropy?
If I ever go for my Philosophy doctorate (as my fellow grad students suggested)…
Tonight we present the doctoral thesis “Predestined Podiatry in a Post-modern Pedagogy”, as defended by an immensely hairy manbeast and his just-off-the-mountain Gorgosh yams.
On the bright side, my oldest daughter was working on reading Go, Dog. Go tonight and my youngest was trying to get people’s attention by grunting/grabbing faces in order to laugh at them.
Yep. Summer’s here. Instead of struggling back to the Lhusu Mines, Devin’s favorite Level-Up Cabana, I decided to re-start the game now that I know about its funkiness.
I had missed:
(This happens every time I play Final Fantasy.)
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They won’t laugh at you
Riding on giant chickens
if you’re a good shot
