Photos, and maybe a geeky blog post or two!
Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.”
“OH NO!” the President exclaims. “That’s terrible!”
His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.
Finally, the President looks up and asks, “How many is a brazillion?“
There’s this very dedicated Star Trek fan group who are creating new episodes of Star Trek that are based on the original series. They call it Star Trek New Voyages, and it looks like they have done a great job of getting actors that look similar to the original cast. Recently they have announced that George Tekai (Mr. Sulu) will be joining them for an episode! Pretty cool stuff, it’s amazing how much free time some people have… I’ve been spending my time lately setting up two websites.
My best friend Andrew Platter has his new album up on Track10.com, a music download site kind of like iTunes. They recently interviewed him about his life and music, and made it available for download as a podcast. I think it’s the first podcast where my name is mentioned! Back when I was 14 (12 years ago!) I started taking guitar lessons from a hippie in Issaquah. After every lesson, Andrew and I would get together and I would show him everything I learned. He talks about that and more in the podcast, and I was honored that he credited me with laying some of the foundations of his music. Pretty soon I’m gonna help him get PlatterMusic.com going so that his music can reach even further!
Towards the end of the podcast he mentions that I took credit for one of the songs that we co-wrote together. Ok, I guess he helped out a little – I’ll admit it. 😉
*Update* – Andrew is now going on tour with Superchick!
After a long break I’ve decided to get my character Zacchaeus up to lvl 60 in World of Warcraft. I handed him over to my pal Soini for a bit and he took him up a few levels. The problem with World of Warcraft is that you need a lot of time to play it, which is hard to come by these days! Here’s a pic of Zac in his newly acquired Engineer’s Guild hat:
For some reason his bushy eyebrows always stick through his hat 🙂
Over the last week I have been working on getting all of my old data over to WordPress, a very handy dandy blogging tool that has many awesome features. I don’t really feel like coding my own stuff for the blog anymore due to lack of time, and also I feel that I’ve got a good handle on PHP/MySQL which was one of my original purposes for starting the blog back in 2004. It was kind of a pain to get all of the entries from my old hand coded database tables to the WordPress tables, but I used my elite SQL skills to make it happen. I actually designed my system a lot like how WordPress does things, which encouraged me that I did some things correctly at least 🙂 Right now I am using a theme called ‘K2’ which I am going to mod more to my liking. It’s not a blog unless it’s personal! Commenting should work, and I need to add links to my gallery and what not.
The world wide web can do some magical things. Amazing things. Things of such beauty it would make a grown man cry. Things like the Captain Planet Eco-Rap Theme Song being ready to listen to at anytime! Lucky us.
My employer and Tully’s Coffee have teamed up to do a great thing. All of the profits from their ‘Tsunami Response’ blend will go to World Vision in order to help the crisis in Asia. So if you like coffee get down to Tully’s and stock up for the rest of the winter! You can even buy it online.
Our flight home on Northwest Airlines #33 was absolutely awful! Out trip from Scotland to Seattle took over 30 hours. It was such a crazy thing that it made the paper. I’m tired. Really tired. I’m pretty sure that we were the first to take part in a direct flight from Amsterdam to Moses Lake! *Update* – Here’s
some
more
links
to stories about our most painful flight.
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