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Klingon Fairy Tales. August 29, 2005

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If your not quite as nerdy this may not be as funny, but if you grew up on star trek you should be able to appreciate it. One of my favorites: “Mary Had a Little Lamb. It Was Delicious”

McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Klingon Fairy Tales.

Zippety Doo Dog August 27, 2005

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We have new neighbors across the street, and they have a 4-month-old Yorkshire terrier puppy named Daisy who came over to play with Sasha today. Next to Daisy, Sasha looks both serene and graceful. That puppy was the incarnation of a never-ending sugar high. Her favorite game was to sneak up on Sasha and nip her and then run behind Jerod or I. She liked to play chase too, but she’s so much smaller than Sasha (who is fairly large for a Yorkie) that Sasha would just run her over. Daisy also has absolutely no coordination so she frequently did complete somersaults while chasing around, and she kept accidentally sitting in the water dish. Daisy stayed about two hours and had Sasha completely worn out after 45 minutes, it was amazing. I have a picture posted here.

Hamster Power August 26, 2005

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Well Jeeves,

It may not be hamster cooling, but it’s close.

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1513938.html

news August 25, 2005

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Front page news in the Shelbyville paper: “Overflowing toilets and standing water prompted courthouse personnel to call Plumber Ray CLagg to inspect and clear sewer lines in the basement floor restrooms.” Complete with a picture of the plumber examining a toilet. Please, isn’t there ANYTHING more exciting happening in Shelbyville than plumbing problems?

Coolest gmap integrations ever? August 24, 2005

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Ok well perhaps only if you are a runner. Here is the link that Dan sent me that started this. It isn’t bad, you zoom in on a town and can double click to mark legs of routes. It gives you mileage and can even estimate calories burned.

But then I found this, it doesn’t calculate calories, but it allows you to post routes for others in your area. I’ve posted a 3 mile loop for greenville, I could do any number of mileage loops extending this same route, but I’ll probably diversify if I put more in.

I’ll probably use the first one to quickly figure mileage for a run, but if I find a couple good routes, I’ll drop them in the second one.

Wow August 21, 2005

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So its a week late, but I will finally post the news I keep meaning to post. The church I go to has been discussing buying the old building of another church thats moving in town. Last sunday was the vote after months of discussing and researching. I managed to transfer my membership just in time to be allowed to vote as a member even though they’d decided that the non-member votes would count just as much. (In the free methodist church, such things are officially only decided by the votes of members, but they’d decided for such a big decision they wanted more input) I’d guess all told there were some 40-50 people voting, many of whom had had some reservations about the move, some quite serious. I personally at first wasn’t sure, but after enough discussing all the concerns and benifits, I decided I was for it. Despite having so many initially opposed the final vote was unanimous, which is pretty amazing for a group that size. So assuming we can come up with $10,000 by november either via giving, grants or sale of our current property, we’ll be jumping about a mile north-east in town.

CNN.com - Panic ensues in rush for cheap laptops - Aug 16, 2005 August 16, 2005

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CNN.com - Panic ensues in rush for cheap laptops - Aug 16, 2005
I’m not even going to say anything, just read the article. Pay special attention to the quote from the guy who was bashing people with his folding chair.

A play to remember August 13, 2005

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Tonight was the last show of the play that the community theater has been putting on this week. I know this because I have been helping out (no, not on stage) by manning a couple switches and noises. The play is Neil Simon’s Fools, a quick summary from some other groups production of the play can be found here.

Preview night was rough (wednesday) it was the first night I’d had several sound effects available (which I know now, I should make a much greater fuss about having them run all through at least once) and there were a couple line fumbles, mostly though I was the only one noticably off. Oh and I cut myself. Oh by the way, the auditorium’s light box sucks, I only controlled 2 sets of lights, on and off for the left and right sides. Both push-buttons liked to stick down, but one actually required an extra click to turn off. Only a couple places where both go off together, but sufficient to say they never actually did. Oh and it gave me a mild shock one of times.

Thursday was nearly 100% better, most of the fumbles were covered up nicely, and I didn’t screw up too much, nor did I bleed. About a bakers dozen in attendance. Introduction of cymbals instead of a generic noise box for one noise, the cast members were suppose to collapse when it happened. An extra element of realism was added because most of them didn’t know I was going to use something with more noise than the sufficient but not great noise box. Light box didn’t shock me either.

Friday was probably the peak performance, we had nearly 40 in the audience and they did a good job of laughing when they were suppose to (not as easy as it sounds). Sound and lights worked well, in general it was a great performance (this one was the one that was taped thank god).

Tonights was an interesting one. We’d joked about the approaching line of storms conviniently knocking out the power in the 2nd act. That didn’t happen. Instead we got a brown out about halfway through act one. Those on stage mostly did a fabulous job of continuing as if nothing had happened, even though the lighting had been cut to a quarter what it had been. There were a couple mistakes and we did realize at one point that one of the actors had actually been relying entirely on the prop book (which had his lines in it) and in a couple places was forced to ad lib with, well, not much luck. We scrounged up a propane lamp, and taped 4 flashlights to the balcony railing. Really all and all considering what happened things went amazingly smooth. Though it was too dark to take the sparse set apart and that will be done tomorrow.

I have a couple pictures but I’m not quite sure where I set my camera when I walked in and it is after 12:30 so I’m not posting them tonight. It was mostly fun but thank God its over.

BBC NEWS | Technology | Physics enlisted to help singles August 12, 2005

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Physics enlisted to help singles

The research suggested that multiple daters, those who form many relationships, were less effective at finding the right partner than those who remained in one place and let others come to them.

Haha! take that, a model that suggests I’m approaching this thing correctly. Though I think I’ll ignore the next 2 sentances in the article.

search engine fun August 10, 2005

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