lazy pictures.
Monday, August 30th, 2004anyone know of some halfway decent photo album sofware i can use for my website?
it’s getting harder and harder to breathe
Archive for August, 2004
Def Leppard love makes me hate.
Friday, August 27th, 2004for some reason, covering def leppard songs has become popular.
This is very bad.
I have ranked these in inreasing order by pain invoked.
Bad - first up: crappy family band Malibu Storm doing a cover of Photograph.
Worse - Then we’ve got Townsend, a boy band, doing a cover of Pour Some Sugar On Me. This one’s a video, and it really makes you wish you were blind and deaf.
Worst - And finally, the much hated Mariah Carey singing Bringin On A Heartbreak.
man do i hate mariah carey.
I really hope Def Leppard is being paid a lot for these.
gmail
Thursday, August 26th, 2004i have some gmail invites available, in case anyone is interested.
science is insane.
Thursday, August 26th, 2004a man, who had part of his jaw removed due to cancer, had a replacement jaw grown on his back, and then reattached. insane. I guess it’s not that crazy that this is possible, they’ve been doing stuff like skin grafting and bone transplants, but it’s mostly the whole “we’re going to grow a jawbone on your back” thing that’s odd. kinda like that mouse with an ear growing off it’s back…
And loosely related to science, apparently British scientists say Blade Runner is the best sci-fi film EVER. 2nd place was Kubrick’s 2001.
in other news, my voice is pretty much gone today. makes it very hard to explain sql to someone… But i predict that tomorrow i’ll be ready to man the 1-900 lines with a deep sexy voice.
wedding, birthday, voice.
Thursday, August 26th, 2004went back to michigan for lena and nick’s wedding. it was really nice, minus the weather which was a bit rainy. the ceremony was non-religious but still very nice, basically take a normal religious ceremony, remove all mentioning of god or jesus, and make it about 20 minutes long. i encourage more weddings to be like that. of course, taking pictures took about 90 minutes, but i guess that made up for the short ceremony. the reception was good too, tasty food and of course, wedding music. i hope i don’t have to play the same music that gets played at every other wedding whenever I get married. i want real music, not YMCA, Grease, line dancing, etc. ah well, i’m sure whenever it happens, i’ll just leave it up to the girl. i did like when the wedding party came into the reception to Sweet Child O’ Mine.
The other good thing about the wedding was that basically everyone from the group of friends we had back at U-M were there, so i got to see people I hadn’t seen in years, some of them not since we graduated. that was really cool, i wish we could have hung out more, but at least I got to see them. also it was nice hanging out with a decent number of girls (cute ones at that), since that tends to be a rare occurance in the world of MS.
Tonight was Kathy’s birthday party, which was surprisingly an actual surprise. usually the “surprise” dinners we have for people consist of someone saying “we should go out to eat at ______”, and then everyone is there waiting. if it happened once it might actually be a surprise, but it seems like every single birthday does the same thing. at some point you just have to say, “hey, we’re all going to go out for your dinner.” no surprises. anyway, tyler managed to trick kathy into thinking she was having a dinner thing tomorrow night, but it was actually tonight, and everyone showed up basically on time. there was a shit-ton of food though, way more than was needed. i learned that costco sells hotdogs in packs of 42. 42! is that really necessary? i mean, you can’t even match that up with the normal 8 buns (or 24 at costco) that you get, without getting 4 packs of hot dogs and 7 packs of buns. and then you’ve got 168 hot dogs and buns…
as for my voice, i’ve had this sore throat thing going on the last couple days. it doesn’t hurt too much anymore, but today i basically sounded like i was smoking pot all day, cause my throat was kinda congested. and now after the party, when i was talking all night, i’ve effectively lost my voice, except for in a really low or really high pitched voice. so.. i’ll be whispering a lot tomorrow; hopefully i won’t have to talk much.
well, i’m off.
funny.
Wednesday, August 18th, 2004buy.com and tracking.
Wednesday, August 18th, 2004i wish buy.com would stop having decent prices on things, because i really think it’s a terrible place to buy things.
bad customer service, slow at getting things shipped, they don’t send you email when things happen (like, for example, your order getting cancelled). but they have low prices on things at times…
anyway, i ordered a 512 mb flash card from them on August 5th. It finally got around to being shipping to me on the 13th, and is currently somewhere in between Kent and here i guess. Hopefully it’ll get here before tonight; if not it kinda makes the whole digital camera thing useless to take to a wedding, since with the 32mb card I have I can take about 11 pictures. stupid buy.com.
the funny things is, I was checking the tracking info for the card and apparently as of 8/17 at 10:17 it was at the sortation center in kent, and then last night it was being prepared for dispatch, at 6:11pm so it took all day to…… wait a second, the sortation center? what the hell is sortation? I don’t think you’re allowed to make up words when existing words, like the exotic “sorting” will do just fine…
well, I need to go, i have to organizationalize some stuff.
bitching about stuff! and a neat projector.
Thursday, August 12th, 2004good job catholic church: effectively discriminating against all sufferers of celiac disease. No, i hadn’t heard of it before either - it’s a disorder that causes the body’s immune system to attack the lining of the small intestine in response to gluten, found in wheat, rye, and other similar grains. An 8 year old girl received communion with a gluten-free Holy Eucharist (jesus wafer). However, because it didn’t contain any wheat, the Roman Catholic Church has invalidated it. They generously offered to allow her to use a low-gluten host, but that can still be toxic. I guess Jesus only loves you if you don’t have diseases (and you aren’t gay).
Speaking of which, the state of California anulled all the 4000 or so gay marriages performed in San Francisco, saying that the mayor violated state law. hooray for equal human rights. wait..
also the governor of new jersey is gay and resigning on november 15th because he cheated on his wife. with a man!
and finally, this is a pretty cool projector that will look at the surface upon which it is displaying, and can adjust to make an image look good, even on a slanted, wavy, uneven, multicolored image.
(via gizmodo)
more pictures
Tuesday, August 10th, 2004here are some more pictures i took:
pictures.
oh, wait, no, that wasn’t me. they’re by Yann Bertrand.
(via metafilter)
i hate journalists.
Monday, August 9th, 2004…except robin, who i know would never do something just to grab attention.
There was a terrible murder of 6 people, commited by 4 guys with a baseball bat. To read the news about it, it pretty much sounds like an Xbox controlled their minds and told them to kill these people. What looks like actually happened is, some guy got kicked out of his apartment, and some of his clothes and his xbox got stolen, so being a crazy fucked up man, he got some friends to help him kill 6 people in revenge. Obviously, that leads to The Xbox Killers.
that’s right, we’ll say anything to get people to read the news!
robin, don’t be a bad journalist.
Anyway, this is funny: like i said before, there’s no duct tape on mars, so you can’t have both a flashlight AND a gun in Doom 3. Oh, wait, you can: duct tape.
Oh, but that’s not cute, how about… hello kitty!
Nah, that’s lame, we need retro cool: thundercats
or just good old batman.
I haven’t really taken pictures of a whole lot, other than random stuff around my apartment to play with my camera, but here are some pictures of me in the mirror.
