caught this on boingboing today... you may have heard about the physics of superheroes before or perhaps not... if you had you probably thought, as i did, that it was kind of a goofy idea...
well, now there are a series of videos (video 1, video 2, video 3, video 4) that display the true hilarity of it... no really, this guy (besides knowing far too much about comic books) has great comedic timing...
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
it's karylin smith's birthday today
it's karylin smith's birthday today (or so what passes for my memory tells me) but since i lost track of karylin ages ago (years before i lost track of my friend mark) i'm going to do the same thing i've done for mark and wish her a happy birthday here...
who is karylin smith? well, besides being a multi-talented musician and artist from york u, she was also one of the nicest girls i've ever known (and the first girl i ever asked out - not to mention the first to let me down gently)...
she was a great person, full of life, and i'm sure where ever she's gotten to she's having a great day so happy birthday karylin...
who is karylin smith? well, besides being a multi-talented musician and artist from york u, she was also one of the nicest girls i've ever known (and the first girl i ever asked out - not to mention the first to let me down gently)...
she was a great person, full of life, and i'm sure where ever she's gotten to she's having a great day so happy birthday karylin...
franco unamerican
i haven't really been posting much in the way of interesting multimedia lately so here's youtube video for a song i just can't get out of my head...
i keep meaning to check if i've got "the war on errorism" (the album this song is from) at home so i can bring it into work and listen to this (and other nofx songs) without browsing the net but oh well..
i keep meaning to check if i've got "the war on errorism" (the album this song is from) at home so i can bring it into work and listen to this (and other nofx songs) without browsing the net but oh well..
Monday, September 11, 2006
what i did on my summer vacation
my summer vacation? well, i did take time off work, and it was during the summer, so i guess that counts as a summer vacation...
the first thing i did was go to my cousin's wedding - and that meant getting dressed up, which just so you know is one of my not-so-favourite things... i'm not a fancy-pants sort of guy, but i bought a suit and people seemed to think it was acceptable so that was that... and the wedding was, i dunno, wedding-like? i haven't been to that many but they don't really impress me as being all that interesting... i think they must have some sort of social significance that i don't get...
whatever, that was the first day of my vacation, after that there was another 2 weeks... 2 weeks of building an interior wall - from scratch... cutting 2x4's to length (by hand, because apparently i am able to cut myself even with a hand saw so power saws wouldn't have been a very good idea), hammering them into position, toe-nailing them together with a hammer and nails for the most part (note to do-it-yourselfers: if you're going to frame a wall, use framing brackets/anchors and screws, i did on some trouble spots at the end and when i was done i wished i could take the other part of the wall back down and re-do it with the brackets - it's that much better), putting in insulation and a vapour barrier, cutting drywall and screwing it into place, etc... it's not a big wall but it's my first time building one and apart from some assistance holding the plastic for the vapour barrier in place and lugging around drywall before it got cut i pretty much put the whole thing in place myself so all that took me the whole 2 weeks...
and yes, if it sounds like i left out some steps (like the taping and the mudding and the priming and the painting) it's because they haven't been done yet - ugg... so much work and now i'm not on vacation anymore so i gotta put in my 8-9 hours at my day job first before even thinking about doing anything about the wall...
but there's a method to my madness - it's all part of my newly decided exit strategy that a) let's me get the heck out of my mom's house (years of being the parent to your parent when they should be able to take care of themselves is hard, and apparently very expensive since i just recently did the math) and b) has the very important property of not making me the bad guy for abandoning my mom because if she does wind up having to sell the place at least it will have some/all the repairs it needs done so the place isn't a total hole... i actually feel better than i have in a long while now because it seems like freedom might just be within my grasp... hooray for me!
the first thing i did was go to my cousin's wedding - and that meant getting dressed up, which just so you know is one of my not-so-favourite things... i'm not a fancy-pants sort of guy, but i bought a suit and people seemed to think it was acceptable so that was that... and the wedding was, i dunno, wedding-like? i haven't been to that many but they don't really impress me as being all that interesting... i think they must have some sort of social significance that i don't get...
whatever, that was the first day of my vacation, after that there was another 2 weeks... 2 weeks of building an interior wall - from scratch... cutting 2x4's to length (by hand, because apparently i am able to cut myself even with a hand saw so power saws wouldn't have been a very good idea), hammering them into position, toe-nailing them together with a hammer and nails for the most part (note to do-it-yourselfers: if you're going to frame a wall, use framing brackets/anchors and screws, i did on some trouble spots at the end and when i was done i wished i could take the other part of the wall back down and re-do it with the brackets - it's that much better), putting in insulation and a vapour barrier, cutting drywall and screwing it into place, etc... it's not a big wall but it's my first time building one and apart from some assistance holding the plastic for the vapour barrier in place and lugging around drywall before it got cut i pretty much put the whole thing in place myself so all that took me the whole 2 weeks...
and yes, if it sounds like i left out some steps (like the taping and the mudding and the priming and the painting) it's because they haven't been done yet - ugg... so much work and now i'm not on vacation anymore so i gotta put in my 8-9 hours at my day job first before even thinking about doing anything about the wall...but there's a method to my madness - it's all part of my newly decided exit strategy that a) let's me get the heck out of my mom's house (years of being the parent to your parent when they should be able to take care of themselves is hard, and apparently very expensive since i just recently did the math) and b) has the very important property of not making me the bad guy for abandoning my mom because if she does wind up having to sell the place at least it will have some/all the repairs it needs done so the place isn't a total hole... i actually feel better than i have in a long while now because it seems like freedom might just be within my grasp... hooray for me!
Saturday, September 09, 2006
just testing out the new blogger features
i've converted this blog over to the new blogger beta system and am just playing around with the functionality... the template should look very much the same, although before it was just minima with my own personal preferences tweaked in and now it's minima stretch lefty (i guess i wasn't the only one who thought the modifications were useful)...
the new templates, although very nice with the ability to drag and drop things on to a page designer, don't seem to give me the same level of control as the old ones did (for example, i've yet to figure out how to change how my feed is reported so that people go to my feedburner feed instead of the native blogger atom feed)... but overall it seems neat... and i think i'm going to like labels...
the new templates, although very nice with the ability to drag and drop things on to a page designer, don't seem to give me the same level of control as the old ones did (for example, i've yet to figure out how to change how my feed is reported so that people go to my feedburner feed instead of the native blogger atom feed)... but overall it seems neat... and i think i'm going to like labels...
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