It’s been a while
Yeah.. it’s been a while. This time of year is typically pretty crappy for me. This is the time of year I tend to get a little bummed out because I realize that Summer is damn near over and I haven’t done 1/4 of the things I wanted to do this year.
For instance, I wanted to get our back yard in shape… I’m pretty sure it’s worse now than it has been since we moved into our house.
I’ve wanted to go camping. We haven’t been yet.
I wanted to take the kids to the park a lot. We’ve been about 4 times.
I wanted to take the kids fishing a few times. Although we actually have been fishing, it’s not exactly been successful. Typically the fishing excursions go like pretty much like this… I spend all my time baiting the hooks, the kids spend all their time flinging worm filled hooks around till the worm falls off and I have to bait the hook again. The timing is pretty good. Typically it takes about the same amount of time for a worm to fly off of the hook as it takes for me to bait the other hook, so we get a good rotation going on.
On the work front, summer is ending, that means all the kids are coming back to school and with them, the faculty. That means we got a lot of work to do to get ready for the start of the school year. So much for playing Tower Defense 
Anyway, just thought I’d say hi to all you people that don’t read my blog.
Greatest Pole Dancer Ever (NSFW)
This video isn’t exactly safe for work, but man, it’s probably worth getting fired over to wach it.
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Dust in the Wind
THis has to be one of my favorite songs. It’s even better now that it’s done by Zombies.
Emergency Party Button
The above website is a genius idea. I have been wanting to figure out something to do with my “Easy Button” and I think this is it!!!
I have tons of X10 stuff sitting at my house, unused. I think i will have to make something simmilar to this!
Have a good weekend everyone.
glumbert – James Brown’s Celebrity Hot Tub Party
glumbert – James Brown’s Celebrity Hot Tub Party
If you’ve been wondering why i’ve been posting so much lately, it partly has to do with the fact that the new Wordpress has a new way to make posts that make it really easy to post things while surfing the web. I’ve been playing around with it.. it’s kinda fun.
Where My Beez At?
It is a fact of nature: When a honey bee returns to the hive after finding a good source of nectar, it will perform a unique dance for its hive mates, detailing the distance, quality and quantity of the new food supply.
Sadly, honey bees are mysteriously vanishing in staggering numbers – a crisis known as Colony Collapse disorder – which is alarming considering honey bees are responsible for pollinating one-third of our natural food supply.
This video is more than awesome.
Tasty Swine
If you like really dry humor and web comics, then Married to the sea is for you.
It’s also truthful, I mean, he couldn’t be more spot on than the illustration above.
News Flash: Sarah Jessica Parker Looks Like a Horse
HA.. wait, seriously, everyone knows this, right?
Whyyyyyy the loooong face Willllburrrrrr?
Anyway, this blog is a wonderful pictorial of Sarah Jessica Parker and her face.
**UPDATED: I changed the link to point to the orig. source, not the stolen pics**
Midget Wrestling
I just got this picture sent to me from a buddy. It’s awesome. I’m not even going to bother to write about it… it speaks for itself. If the formatting is messed up in this post, let me know. I am doing it differently
iHate iPhone iCoverage
The iPhone isn’t that great people… Get a grip.
I don’t understand this. Why is it that every technology company, ESPECIALLY Microsoft, gets thrown under the bus if some device they release has a minor bug in it, or if their upgrade doesn’t include every new feature under the sun. That is, except for one company… Apple.
Lets recap shall we. The new version of the iPhone is coming out in the US soon, already out elsewhere now. Keep in mind, this is the 3rd rev of the iPhone in a year (give or take) (I shall hence forth call it The Jesus Phone), and I actually know people that will have purchased all three revs of the device, and EVEN stood in line for all of them..
I don’t understand why Apple gets a pass on this. The first rev didn’t do 3g, no MMS, no copy/paste, can’t install any applications, cost an arm & a leg and STILL required a 2 year contract. Didn’t get Push mail, didn’t do video, doesn’t take flash memory, etc. Second rev, they change very little, upgrade the memory on the phone and call it a day… Now, the 3rd rev is out. it gets 3G FINALLY, you can buy applications (only via iTunes through the iStore), it gets push mail, bla bla bla.. not that great really, yet everyone gobbles it up. I get it… The Jesus Phone has a fantastic interface, it does. it has a really nice form factor, it does. It’s sleek and sexy, but it’s NOT THAT GREAT.
Another observation, and this is really what drives me nuts, are the tech reviews. How every new feature is looked at and drooled over. Features that most devices from the simplest cell phone up to existing smart phones already out on the market have been doing for some time. The Jesus Phone has GPS.. EVERYONE REJOICE!!! Yeah.. my phone had GPS last year. The Jesus Phone has PUSH MAIL!!!! EVERYONE REJOICE. Yeah, my phone has had push mail for 3 years now, blackberry’s been doing it, and doing it WELL for about 5 years now. Thank you Apple for stepping up on that one.
Here is how a typical technology blog reviews a normal device:
The GPS on my xPhone is passable. It took an appalling 30 seconds to nail down my location and *gasp* it put me 5 feet from my actual location, obviously it still needs some work.
And then The Jesus Phone review
Well I got my hands on The Jesus Phone and all I can say is WOW!!!! I ran outside and waited for it to tell me my location. It only took about 3 minutes to pull up where I was standing, but I noticed that it placed me at a Starbucks about 3 blocks down the road. That’s Ok though. I wanted coffee anyway.
The article would then go on to describe how the Jesus Phone must have been listening to the conversation between him and his buddy while they were trying on moc turtlenecks at the j Crew and it decided that they needed a grande half caf non fat skinny soy caramel late’ with no foam and some nutmeg sprinkled on the top extra hot and that’s why it put their location at Starbucks. GODDAMN THIS DEVICE IS AMAZING.
Anyway, it’s late, I need to go home and play with the kids.