"I'll be right by your side, come hell or water high..."

microfroooog....

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:16:36 GMT

That, on the left, is a WEEEEEE-TINY frog. Our yard, apparently, is replete with these tiny little frogs. Aggie Ring on right is for scale. Yep.

11/2/09

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:34:07 GMT

I love full moons...

why?

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:38:47 GMT

...because theater 8 nine!

Open Letter to whoever picks the music for all the Lincoln vehicle ads:

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:07:02 GMT

Open Letter to whoever picks the music for all the Lincoln vehicle ads:

KEEP AT IT. Whoever picks that music knows exactly the music that I like...

The Cat Power one, singing "Space Oddity", would be AWESOME if it were a whole song, rather than just that clip.

Then there's another with "Coming Home"(originally Peter Schilling) by Shiny Toy Guns.

The newest one is "Under the Milky Way" sung by Nicole Atkins. Another good song...

So. Yeah. not going to buy a Lincoln, but I love their marketing department audio people.

mental midgets?

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:52:56 GMT

It has amused me more than once to see that in this particular phonebook, MENTAL and MIDGET are the two headings... That _can't_ be entirely chance...

rileydoooogggg

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:31:20 GMT

Is that not cute? He just passes out all cool like that...

9/26/09

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 20:27:29 GMT

I need one of these...

shoo fly.... Lobotomy?

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:39:35 GMT

so... I'm in the study a minute ago, and on Facebook, posting about the asshole terrorist in Dalla-- wait, that's another story.
So Nicole's singing in the living room, and I hear "shoo fly..."
and the next thing I hear -- in my half-deaf left ear-- is
"Lobotomy".

(same cadence as "don' bother me", it was....I'm not a moron...honest)

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:15:00 GMT

It's actually really satisfying to put together something that functions as intended, when it's something that I'm doing for the first time...

I put a network together at work, see, and it's working as intended. In a whole freaking bunch of places. I WIN.

(now, granted, it's not elegant, but if they want elegant, they gotta pay someone who knows what the hell they're doing. I have some slight idea, but am by no means an expert.)

((and I'm still not cool with getting up on rafters and walking around. I could NOT be an insulation installer...))

The more I read about geocaching, the more I think it looks like a good excuse to go outside and go someplace with a purpose...

Y'all doing good?

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:04:53 GMT

so. I broke an AC unit at work, right. I'm all "it's cool, I can change the thermostat, how hard can that be", and I change it out.

It then completely refuses to work.

I get irritated, and revert to the original thermostat. (this omits the part where I cuss the thermostat and the wiring for being crappy, what with that being the probable issue.)

Still nothin'.

I go look at the AC unit, flip the onboard breakers to reset them, try other things. Nothin'.

I attempt to call the air handler manufacturer.

Their phone system repeatedly, for an hour, hangs up on me every time I try to transfer to someone who can help me.

Eventually, I get to someone in tech support, who goes "have you tried replacing the fuse?"

*blank look from me* (yes, over the phone. pff.)

So I turn off all the breakers and go find the fuse -- behind, naturally, a panel labeled "NO USER SERVICEABLE PARTS. CALL FOR SERVICE." or some other equally ominous warning.

It's a 3-amp regular automotive fuse. They're 3 dollars for a pack of five.

Lo and behold, I change the thermostat to the new one, and reinstall a new fuse, and we're good.

But I can see how some AC repair calls take three minutes, now.
I bet they still cost the same, but the effort is minimal. It took more time to reinstall the flimsy panel on the housing than to replace the fuse...

woo, bone-resonating hearing aids.

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:32:11 GMT

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/hightech-hearing-aid-the-ultimate-ipod-accessory-20090809-ee8p.html

Bone-actuated hearing aids.

We live in the freaking future.

And as someone who has pretty-damn-bad speech-interpretation-level hearing in one ear, I'm pretty excited to see where this goes.

My left ear sucks, in terms of the frequencies at which human speech is. High pitch? TOTALLY CAN HEAR IT. Low Pitch? sure, it's ok. middle frequencies? it's like hearing through mud.

So someday when this improves, maaaaaybe that's an option.

But I like that the tech is still being worked on.

hhhhhh tsshhh hhhhhh tsshhh

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:19:33 GMT

This is a rack to hold our tupperware. But to me it looks like (with the exception of the hole in the top middle) Darth Vader's helmet.
No, really.

7/22/09

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:46:27 GMT

Very relaxed right now. Laying on the couch in our new house, just decompressing from a long day.

I'm currently VERY much enjoying the lack of other-people-around-us sounds. And being in _our_ house is awesome.

Everyone doing good?

Aerial view of fireworks? HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 03:34:30 GMT

So...flew back from Vegas tonight. Took off from DFW for Killeen just as all the fireworks were teeing off... And the pilot kept the plane at 4000 feet for 30-some miles, so we saw thousands of fireworks. Amazing, seriously. Won't happen often, since there's about a one-hour-a-year window to fly to be able to see it...
Anyway. If you can, do it. High point of the evening...

suicidal food, round two

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:05:51 GMT

Those are chickens in a mural at the DFW Airport Popeye's Chicken, covering each other in tabasco. Genuinely creepy, when I first noticed it... At least the suicidal catfish in the same mural seemed dumbly happy, not manic...

7/1/09-- Caesar's palace

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:21:01 GMT

Ok... Pretty cool. But I still don't buy that the slot machines are random...

Toby Keith's "I love this bar" bar... Mason jars and all...

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:45:31 GMT

Well...cross that off the drinking checklist

7/1/09

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:44:28 GMT

Ok, so... Caesar's is cool...

Vegas!

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:39:44 GMT

View out the window of our room...

Vegas, baby!

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:17:32 GMT

off to Vegas for the first time... Staying in the Monte Carlo until the 4th. Give me a call or an email if youalre around; maybe we can work something out....

wow.. This was unexpected...

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:47:42 GMT

So I'm working on a computer that crapped out the other day, and I put the hard drive into another chassis we got at a police-seizure surplus auction, k? And today I'm working on drivers, and I see "TAE_BO" listed as the contents of the drive... And this was in it.

Odd...someone was watchin' Tae Bo when the cops bust in...

cannibalistic swine...

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:02:30 GMT

K... Something seriously wrong with a pig enjoying a big ol' bowl of pork rinds...

5/31/09

Sun, 31 May 2009 19:36:14 GMT

Only at Walmart; a Christmas tree in the back of a truck, the day before June....

tsss AAA hey what the crap

Sun, 31 May 2009 18:56:27 GMT

So. There's a motorola batteryin the grass outside our apartment, a few minutes ago. I pick it up, if for no other reason than to throw it away. There was a cover sticker missing, and apparently a contact shorted somewhere, because it MELTED A SLICE IN MY FINGER.

wtf.

so. Science news for the day: phone batteries have enough juice to melt skin. Tadaaaa.

Everyone doing okay?

5/29/09

Sat, 30 May 2009 04:41:05 GMT

If you can't read all that...

Buy one, get one free, or 2.99 each.

*boggle*

what?