Archive for June, 2005

The Portrait of the Inventor Rational

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

“Found in two percent (at most) of the population, Inventors are good at functional analysis, and have both a tolerance for and enjoyment of complex problems.”
That’s an interesting piece of information, and it apparently describes me. I took the Jung Typology Test as recommended by Darren Barefoot. He speaks of them as being [...]

Welcome to Summer!

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005

While I slept last night, summer crept out onto the lawn and deposited itself. I found it this morning, smothering everything in sight in a moist haze. She’s a sneaky glutton, but we always know she’s coming. Now summer is here and things can start to really warm up. May your [...]

Gainesville Related to Mayberry

Tuesday, June 21st, 2005

Katie Couric interviews ‘runaway bride’ – TV News – MSNBC.com
Fast Eddie points out the Runaway Bride’s story as broken by Katie Couric. I’m not sure if the interview was tonight or sometime later this week, but I probably won’t see it. I’m only interested in the story so that I can talk intelligently [...]

Something Wickèd this Way Comes…

Monday, June 20th, 2005

In a particularly sinister plan led by one North American Hornet Saturday, my assassination was attempted in vain. I was minding my own business and mowing the lawn when a humming bird-sized hornet leapt from hiding and sniped me. Fortunately, my ninja reflexes allowed my life to be spared and I received the [...]

Happy Father’s Day (cont.)

Monday, June 20th, 2005

When I finally got around to a time that I could possibly finish up this post, it was too late. Father’s Day turned out to be exhausting. I did get to play a video game for about 20 minutes. Balthazar and I played “Knights of the Old Republic” on the XBOX – [...]

Happy Father’s Day

Sunday, June 19th, 2005

What does a dad do on Father’s Day? My first inclination was to shirk all responsiblity and play games all day. I’m thinking that this is in stark contrast to the role of “father,” so how could I spend “Father’s Day” as a bachelor? So I spend the day as super-dad instead. [...]

The Sneeze – Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.

Friday, June 17th, 2005

“It was time for the white. Wine tasters refer to a wine’s aroma as its ‘nose.’ This wine’s nose was a rectum.”
Amy turned me onto thesneeze.com this evening. This site it so perfectly a match for my humor. I quickly browsed the site’s ‘toys’ with my wife with great delight. I’ve now [...]

Migratory Blog Patterns

Friday, June 17th, 2005

I am preparing to move my blog to a WordPress-based system. I’m very comfortable in WordPress, and I’m very comfortable in Blogger.com. I’m very uncomfortable with migrating the site from one to another. I did this a long time ago with pretty good success, but now I have HaloScan comments and TrackBacks [...]

Flickr Group: Pisa Pushers

Thursday, June 16th, 2005

BoingBoing shows us Flickr’s latest ingenious group, “Pisa Pushers.” I didn’t realize that so many pictures were taken with the optical illusion in mind of monkeying with the Leaning Tower. When I first looked through these, I decided I would ensure that I never do this when visiting the Tower. By the [...]

pingomatic.com Error

Thursday, June 16th, 2005

pingomatic is showing us it’s frilly panties. You rarely see errors so severe as this in a major site like theirs. I wonder if they got h4xx0r3d.